NRA to seek injunction against Phila. gun-control laws
Philadelphia Inquirer, The, April, 2008 by Joseph A. Slobodzian Inquirer Staff Writer
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The National Rifle Association was scheduled to go before a Philadelphia judge this morning, seeking an order to block enforcement of a package of gun-control laws that City Council passed last week and that Mayor Nutter signed. C. Scott Shields, the Media lawyer who filed the lawsuit for the NRA, said a hearing on his request for a temporary restraining order would be held at 10 a.m.
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in City Hall before Common Pleas Court Judge Jane Cutler Greenspan. The NRA lawsuit was filed late Tuesday, just hours after District Attorney Lynne M. Abraham told City Council members that she believed the gun-control package was unconstitutional and that she would not enforce it. Abraham said that as a lawyer and elected official, she was bound to obey the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In 1996, the court invalidated a city ordinance to regulate assault weapons, ruling that the state legislature in 1994 passed ...
