EdDinIL

The end result is an item that costs the same but takes longer and is more invasive, in exchange for a small convenience of not going to an FFL twice? What am I missing? That doesn't sound ideal at all.

So SCOTUS would still be aware of the ruling in Cheeseman, even if nobody else filed anything referencing it? Or is it up to the Viramontes team to file a supplemental brief that says, "Hey, SCOTUS, lookie what we got?"

Is it a circuit split (from a SCOTUS-perspective) only if New Jersey appeals it to SCOTUS? Edited to add: Or if the good guys file a supplemental brief quoting the 3rd Circuit ruling, which I absolutely assume they will do if NJ doesn't appeal.

Kostas replied to his own tweet with this bit of snark: In terms of the ruling, the date wont change much. Whether this were argued November 1st or January 30th, the ruling will be last week of June lol.

Minor update:

Illinois will complain the appeal didn't go en banc first, watch. I just thought of something... The instructions were to the lower court to find for the defendants. What if the lower court (McGlynn, right?) pulls an FPC and tells them "F you, no."?

Well, I'm wrong once again. Shocking, I know. They can appeal straight to SCOTUS, right? No need for an en banc hearing? I assume there's no reason to wait for VIramontes to be settled.

Paging Euler...

He's holding Illinois hostage. That will keep him smugly satisfied while he sits on the case. Unless SCOTUS reaches down somehow and nukes the case for him, he'll happily spend his time looking for holes in the Viramontes decision (assuming it goes the way we hope it will).

That consolidation makes it national across all 50 states, and not just Cook County and CT for arguing convenience? I did not realize that. Well, that'll get the blue states scrambling with a big middle finger to SCOTUS as soon as they rule.

As if 7CA needs an excuse, but I'm sure this will cause them to delay Barnett, not shake it loose. Viramontes is only Cook County, Barnett is the entire state, and I doubt SCOTUS will have the guts to make a pro-2A Viramontes decision apply to anything else but Cook County.