WOOLLARD v. GALLAGHER

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Matthew John Fader , Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellants. Alan Gura , Gura & Possessky, PLLC, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Douglas F. Gansler , Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, Dan Friedman , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland, Stephen M. Ruckman , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellants. Cary Hansel , Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellees. Jason M. St. John , Jennifer A. DeRose , Saul Ewing LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for American Public Health Association and American College of Preventive Medicine, Amici Supporting Appellants. Mitchell F. Dolin , Peter Saharko , Jonathan Cohen , Covington & Burling, LLP, Washington, D.C., for Legal Community Against Violence, Amicus Supporting Appellants. Andrew C. White , Erin Murphy , Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White, LLC, Baltimore, Maryland; Dwight W. Stone, II , Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Legal Historians, Amici Supporting Appellants. Jonathan E. Lowy , Daniel R. Vice , Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Washington, D.C.; Jonathan L. Diesenhaus , S. Chartey Quarcoo , Matthew C. Sullivan , Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP, Washington, D.C., for Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Maryland Chiefs of Police Association, International Brotherhood of Police Officers, and Major Cities Chiefs Association, Amici Supporting Appellants. Matthew D. Fender , Robert W. Loftin , McGuirewoods LLP, Richmond, Virginia, for NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund, Amicus Supporting Appellees. L. Kenneth Hanson III , Firestone, Brehm, Hanson and Wolf LLP, Delaware, Ohio, for Buckeye Firearms Foundation, Inc., Amicus Supporting Appellees. David B. Kopel , Independence Institute, Denver, Colorado, for International Law Enforcement Educators & Trainers Association, International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, Inc., Professor Clayton Cramer, and Independence Institute, Amici Supporting Appellees. Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II , Attorney General of Virginia, E. Duncan Getchell, Jr. , Solicitor General of Virginia, Michael H. Brady , Assistant Attorney General, Charles E. James, Jr. , Chief Deputy Attorney General, Wesley G. Russell, Jr. , Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia, for Commonwealth of Virginia; State of Alabama; State of Arkansas; State of Florida; State of Kansas; Commonwealth of Kentucky; State of Maine; State of Michigan; State of Nebraska; State of New Mexico; State of Oklahoma; State of South Carolina; State of South Dakota; State of West Virginia, Amici Supporting Appellees. David T. Hardy , Tucson, Arizona, for Professors of Law, History, Politics, and Government, Amici Supporting Appellees. Dan M. Peterson , Dan M. Peterson PLLC, Fairfax, Virginia; Stephen P. Halbrook , Fairfax, Virginia; John C. Eastman , Anthony T. Caso , Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Orange, California; C.D. Michel , Michel & Associates, P.C., Long Beach, California, for California Rifle and Pistol Association Foundation, Virginia Shooting Sports Association, and Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, Amici Supporting Appellees. Gary G. Kreep , U.S. Justice Foundation, Ramona, California, for U.S. Justice Foundation; William J. Olson , Herbert W. Titus , John S. Miles , Jeremiah L. Morgan , Robert J. Olson , William J. Olson, P.C., Vienna, Virginia, for Gun Owners Foundation, Gun Owners of America, Incorporated, Virginia Gun Owners Coalition, Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc., United States Justice Foundation, and Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund, Amici Supporting Appellees. Brian Stuart Koukoutchos, Mandeville, Louisiana, for The Associated Gun Clubs of Baltimore, Inc., The Monumental Rifle & Pistol Club, The Illinois State Rifle Association, The New York Rifle and Pistol Association, The Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs, Inc., and The Hawaii Rifle Association, Amici Supporting Appellees. Charles J. Cooper , David H. Thompson , Peter A. Patterson , Cooper and Kirk, PLLC, Washington, D.C., for National Rifle Association of America Inc., Amicus Supporting Appellees.

Reversed by published opinion. Judge KING wrote the opinion, in which Judge DAVIS and Judge DIAZ joined.