Folajtar v. Barr

Petition for certiorari denied on April 19, 2021

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
20-812	3rd Cir.	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	OT 2020

Issue: Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which permanently prohibits nearly all felons"even those convicted of nonviolent crimes"from possessing firearms for self-defense, violates the Second Amendment, as applied to an individual convicted of willfully making a materially false statement on her tax returns.

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Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
12/11/2020	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 14, 2021)
12/29/2020	Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 14, 2021 to February 15, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
12/31/2020	Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including February 16, 2021. See Rule 30.1.
01/12/2021	Brief amici curiae of Firearms Policy Foundation, California Gun Rights Foundation, Second Amendment Foundation, and Madison Society Foundation filed.
01/14/2021	Brief amicus curiae of The American Constitutional Rights Union filed.
01/14/2021	Brief amici curiae of The Cato Institute filed.
01/14/2021	Brief amicus curiae of Mountain States Legal Foundation's Center to Keep and Bear Arms filed.
01/21/2021	Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 16, 2021 to March 17, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
01/22/2021	Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including March 17, 2021.
03/12/2021	Brief amicus curiae of Neal Goldfarb filed.
03/17/2021	Brief of respondents Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. in opposition filed.
03/30/2021	Reply of petitioner Lisa Folajtar filed. (Distributed)
03/31/2021	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/16/2021.
04/19/2021	Petition DENIED.