OUTCOME: Prevailed in District Court / Overturned by Ninth Circuit
Lawsuit challenged California's 10 day waiting period for current gun owners with firearms already registered with the State. Jason Davis was lead attorney for the initial part of the case in the Cali...fornia District Court.
Civil rights
Rossow v. Merced
Jan 01, 2013
OUTCOME: Merced CCW/LTC policies revised and attorney fees recovered.
Challenged County of Merced's CCW/LTC policies and procedures as violating state law.
Administrative law
Franklin Armory v. California Department of Justice
Aug 01, 2012
OUTCOME: Office of Administrative deemed DOJ policy an underground regulation
Franklin Armory challenged DOJ policy in denying corporations the right to obtain assault weapons permits via underground regulations. Petition filed with California Office of Administrative Law.
Civil rights
Farias v. Calexico
Jan 01, 2012
OUTCOME: Calexico training policy instituted and money damages paid to Plaintiff.
Civil rights lawsuit relating to false arrest for lawful possession of firearms.
Civil rights
Diaz v. San Fernando
Jan 01, 2011
OUTCOME: San Fernando training policy instituted and money damages for Plaintiff
Civil rights lawsuit against city of San Fernando for false arrest over lawful firearms possession.
Civil rights
Calguns Foundation v. Ventura
Jan 01, 2011
OUTCOME: Ventura ordered to produce documents and pay attorneys fees.
Calguns Foundation sued Ventura over refusal to produce CCW related documents in response to California Public Records Act Request.
Civil rights
Wolanyk v. San Diego
Jan 01, 2011
OUTCOME: Money damages for Plaintiff.
Civil rights lawsuit for false arrest relating to lawful possession of firearms.
Civil rights
McDonald v. Chicago
Jan 01, 2010
OUTCOME: Second Amendment Incorporated and Applies to State and Local Governments
Co-Author of Amicus Brief for the Amicus Brief to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of appellants from the Ninth Circuit incorporation case of Nordyke v. King, Madison Society, and Golden Gate ...Second Amendment Council – in support of reversal. McDonald is set to determine whether the Second 0Amendment protects individuals from state and local restrictions on the right to bear arms.
Government
California Law Revision Commission Study on Dangerous Weapons Law
Jan 01, 2009
OUTCOME: Rewrote Entirety of Weapons Related Penal Code Provisions
Represented the interests of firearm owners and associations. As part of ACR 73, the Legislature directed the Law Revision Commission to “study, report on, and prepare recommended legislation by July ...1, 2009, concerning the revision of the portions of the Penal Code relating to the control of deadly weapons ….” 2006 Cal. Stat. res. ch. 128. The general purpose of the study was to improve the organization and accessibility of the deadly weapons statutes, without making any change to criminal liability under those statutes.
Civil rights
District of Columbia v. Heller
Jan 01, 2008
OUTCOME: Second Amendment Deemed Individual Right
Co-Author of Amicus Brief for the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA), the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI), Maryland Sta...te Lodge, the Fraternal Order of Police, the Southern States Police Benevolent Association, 29 Elected California District Attorneys, the San Francisco Veteran Police Officers Association, the Long Beach Police Officers Association, Texas Police Chiefs Association, Texas Municipal Police Association, New York State Association of Auxiliary Police, Mendocino County, California Sheriff Thomas D. Allman, Oregon State Rep. Andy Olson, the National Police Defense Foundation, the Law Enforcement Alliance of America, and the Independence Institute in Support of Respondent. Heller determined that the Second Amendment provides both a fundamental and individual right to bear arms.