Brian Johnson

The following petitions were denied. Several dockets are unchanged. The rest were relisted to this Friday's conference. Philip J. Marquis, Petitioner v. Massachusetts - Petition Denied QUESTION PRESENTED 1. Does Massachusetts’ firearms licensing regime, which grants a police colonel the power to deny any nonresident traveler a temporary firearms license based upon that officer’s judgment of “unsuitability,” violate nonresident travelers’ constitutional rights to keep and bear arms and to interstate travel? supremecourt.gov/docket/dock… Steven Perez, Petitioner v. United States - Petition Denied. QUESTIONS PRESENTED Petitioner was convicted of interstate transport and receipt of firearms, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(3), and conspiracy to commit this offense, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. In affirming the judgment of conviction, the Second Circuit held that an individual’s “acquisition” of firearms was merely an “ancillary” Second Amendment right. Because this was the case, it adopted and applied a “meaningful constraint” test also used by the Ninth Circuit: “[R]egulations on the means of acquiring, transporting, and storing firearms only implicate the text of the Second Amendment if they meaningfully constrain the right to possess and carry arms.”Accordingly, the questions presented are:Does the Second Amendment presumptively protect an individual’s right to acquire firearms?Is the “meaningful constraint” standard applied by the Second and Ninth Circuits to determine the constitutionality of regulations concerning“ancillary” Second Amendment rights correct? Robert D. Schneider, Petitioner v. United States - Petition Denied. The question presented is:Whether military courts of criminal appeals have authority under 10 U.S.C. §§ 860c and 866(d)(2) to cor-rect an unconstitutional firearms ban annotated after entry of judgment. supremecourt.gov/docket/Dock… Marcus Turner, Petitioner v. United States - Petition Denied. QUESTIONS PRESENTED I. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) permits conviction for the possession of any firearm that has ever crossed state lines at any time in the indefinite past, and, if so, if it is facially unconstitutional? II. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment? supremecourt.gov/docket/dock…