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Heller's Future in the Lower Courts

Glenn Harlan Reynolds
University of Tennessee College of Law

Brannon P. Denning
Cumberland School of Law



Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 406, 2008
University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 40

Abstract:     
The Supreme Court's recent decision in District of Columbia v. Heller not only established an individual right to gun ownership, but also overturned - by a 9-0 margin - lower-court caselaw based on a "collective right" interpretation of the Second Amendment. This article looks at how Heller is likely to fare in the lower courts, based on experience with other recent Supreme Court decisions, and incorporates new scholarship on decision rules and the so-called "new doctrinalism."

Keywords: heller, guns, firearms, constitutional law, second amendment, gun control, decision rules

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Date posted: July 17, 2008 ; Last revised: October 17, 2008

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Reynolds, Glenn Harlan and Denning, Brannon P., Heller's Future in the Lower Courts (July 17, 2008). Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 406, 2008; University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 40. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1162168


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Glenn Harlan Reynolds (Contact Author)
University of Tennessee College of Law ( email )
1505 West Cumberland Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37996-1810
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865-974-6744 (Phone)
Brannon P. Denning
Cumberland School of Law ( email )
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Birmingham, AL 35229
United States
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205-726-4060 (Fax)
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