ROSEVILLE, CA (August 25, 2014)

California’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge this morning in a significant victory for Second Amendment rights. The laws were challenged by California gun owners Jeffrey Silvester and Brandon Combs, as well as two gun rights groups, The Calguns Foundation and Second Amendment Foundation. Attorneys Victor Otten of Torrance, Jason Davis of Mission Viejo, and Don Kilmer of San Jose represented the Plaintiffs.

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On December 23, 2011, The Calguns Foundation, The Second Amendment Foundation and several individual plaintiffs filed suit against the California Attorney General Kamala Harris challenging the mandatory 10-day waiting period for a firearm as an infringement of the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, as it applies to individuals who have been found qualified to, and have, purchased firearms in the past. The lawsuit does not challenge the 10-day waiting period for those individuals that have not purchased ...

On July 8, 2013, the Supreme Court of California decided local government must turn over computer mapping data without charging excessive fees.

The decision involved an appeal by the Sierra Club, which was charged $375,000 by Orange County for a mapping database of 640,000 land parcels that were in geographic information system (“GIS”) format and can be read by most mapping software.

The case, which took six years to make its way through the courts, included an Amicus Brief submitted by Otten ...