{"id":12359,"date":"2019-11-12T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12359"},"modified":"2019-11-12T20:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:11:48","slug":"remington-denied-cert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12359","title":{"rendered":"Remington Denied Cert (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5443,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.supremecourt.gov\\\/orders\\\/courtorders\\\/111219zor_db8e.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5444,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/armsandthelaw.com\\\/archives\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/supreme_court_d_2.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The US Supreme Court has denied a writ of certiorari to Remington in their appeal of the Connecticut Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling. That ruling allowed the lawsuit by some of the families of the Newtown murders against Remington to go forward. The Connecticut Supreme Court had said Remington would not be protected by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/111219zor_db8e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The denial<\/a> was in the Order List released this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2019\/10\/09\/anti-plcaa-forces-bring-out-big-legal-guns.html\">As I mentioned earlier<\/a>, the anti-PLCAA forces had brought out the big legal guns with Obama&#8217;s former Solicitor General. His argument must have swayed enough justices that they voted against taking the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about the Connecticut Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling in the case <a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2019\/03\/14\/connecticut-supreme-court-rules.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that the lawsuit against Remington will go to trial in Connecticut Superior Court and that the plaintiffs can go on a fishing expedition through Remington&#8217;s records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be blunt, this denial of cert sucks. It turns on its head the supremacy of Federal law and makes a mockery of a law passed by Congress to prevent exactly what the plaintiffs are seeking to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Dave Hardy, 2A scholar and attorney, <a href=\"https:\/\/armsandthelaw.com\/archives\/2019\/11\/supreme_court_d_2.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gives his take on the SCOTUS denial of cert in the case.<\/a> He still thinks the plaintiffs have a long way to go before they win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Big point: the trial court dismissed the suit for &#8220;failure to state a claim.&#8221; This is the first stage at which a suit can be reviewed. Dismissal is only proper if it is based on the pleading, bare written allegations. The CT Supremes said only that it couldn&#8217;t be, at this stage. Plaintiff still have to prove their allegations (after discovery, they can be challenged by a motion for summary judgement, and if that&#8217;s denied, fought at trial). The CT Supremes even allowed that plaintiff may have to surmount &#8220;herculean&#8221; barriers to win. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll defer to Dave given his long experience as an attorney.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Supreme Court has denied a writ of certiorari to Remington in their appeal of the Connecticut Supreme&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[260,216,4841,262,9],"class_list":["post-12359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-connecticut-supreme-court","tag-remington-arms","tag-remington-arms-v-soto","tag-soto-et-al-v-bushmaster-et-al","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12362,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12359\/revisions\/12362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}