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I didn't update this one before... No comment on this cross petition when Cert was granted to Heller. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't know if it matters much at all now since the question was worded the way it was by SCOTUS to include all arms and not just handguns.

My guess is that this cross petition will not be granted but that it will not make much of a difference either way. I would say that there is probably a dissenting opinion that is being written for this in order for both sides to comment on the cert question.

I'll keep posting then. Anyone care about geek court (SCO v IBM, SCO v Novell)?

stevie_d_64 wrote:First, Kalrog, you be doing Yeoman's work here keeping up with this one! Thanks!!!

I was starting to wonder if anyone else was interested in this (getting no responses). I'll keep watching then.

And now we have a preview / review of the case.

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategori ... ment-case/

Busy day. Another filing and a response. SCOTUS will consider granting cert to BOTH questions on 9 November with arguments being next year probably (if granted).

http://www.gurapossessky.com/news/parke ... _reply.pdf

And we have an update:

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content ... -23-07.pdf

This is exactly what I was thinking was going to happen. DC only wants a ruling on the 2A implications and constitutionality of its specific handgun ban. Wow - and all this for something that hasn't even been granted cert yet.

Liberty wrote:Thanks, I had seen that others who were more knowledgeable than me that it mattered. But your post was the only thing I've seen that explained why.

Then I hope I got it right.

It would expand the options of what SCOTUS could rule on. As it is, the only thing Heller had standing in was the handgun ban. Some of the others had sued for other parts of the ban (long guns need to be unloaded and inoperable). So if the others are granted standing, SCOTUS could rule on different aspects of the ban if it wanted to. I don't think this is as important as the Heller part of it, but I could easily see a ruling that says handguns are legal, but no ruling on the functionality part of it.

So it matters, but not as much as it could. Any lawyers out there understand it differently than I do?

DC replied and is against the expansion (reinstatement of standing for the other 5) as I thought they would be. I have read a summary already but will be reading the full thing later. Anyone else crazy enough to want to read it can find it here: http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content ... -12-07.pdf

I was reading http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/ and noticed that today is the deadline for a response to the cross petition on Parker and wondered if anyone else was waiting on this one? This is the petition to restore standing to all of the original plantiff in the case (the other 5 were denied standing at the lower level).