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cases before the Supreme Court as
quickly as possible or his plan to
file lawsuits across the country in
the hopes that two federal appeals
courts will issue conflicting rulings. Such a division in the lower
circuit courts greatly increases the
odds that the Supreme Court will
decide to hear a particular case, in
order to settle the issue.
“We’ve gone out to plant the
seed in all the various circuits,”
Gottlieb said. “Maybe we’ll get
a good Supreme Court decision,
but we’re also going for as many
good lower court rulings, 10 or
20, as we can get.”
The SAF has won big on occasion — such as a 2011 case, Ezell
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v. Chicago, in which the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit struck down the city’s ban
on firing ranges and set an important precedent on how to interpret the Second