Attorney O's Midnight Musings: Connecticut Law » U.S. Supreme Court http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog Law Offices of Irene C. Olszewski, LLC Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:17:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 Decision Backs Individual Gun Rights http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2010/06/30/mondays-u-s-supreme-courts-5-4-decision-backs-individual-gun-rights/ http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2010/06/30/mondays-u-s-supreme-courts-5-4-decision-backs-individual-gun-rights/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:19:51 +0000 Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/?p=1418 I didn’t have a chance to post this on Monday but I thought it was still worth mentioning for anyone who might have missed it.

Excerpted from Politics Daily:

“The U.S. Supreme Court declared Monday that individual gun rights under the Second Amendment apply and may be used to block enforcement of certain restrictive state and local gun control ordinances.”

The Right To Bare Arms

Read: Supreme Court Ruling Backs Individual Gun Rights

Read: McDonald et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al.

Read: Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

]]> http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2010/06/30/mondays-u-s-supreme-courts-5-4-decision-backs-individual-gun-rights/feed/ 2 Louisiana Justice of the Peace Refuses to Issue Marriage License to Interracial Couple: Loving v. Virginia Revisited? http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2009/10/19/louisiana-justice-of-the-peace-refuses-to-issue-marriage-license-interracial-couple-loving-v-virginia-revisited/ http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/2009/10/19/louisiana-justice-of-the-peace-refuses-to-issue-marriage-license-interracial-couple-loving-v-virginia-revisited/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:21:56 +0000 Irene C. Olszewski, Esq. http://ireneolszewski.com/ctlawblog/?p=375 U.S. Supreme CourtIn the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case, Loving v. Virginia, the unanimous court decided that, “[u]nder our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.”

Apparently, Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell hasn’t been paying attention. Bardwell, who claims he is not a racist, recently refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple.

Read Justice Stands by Refusal to Wed Couple on AOLnews.

[Source: AOL News]

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