Summary: Challenge to City of Philadelphia's law requiring reporting of "lost or stolen" firearms

Plaintiff: City of Philadelphia, PA

Defendant: Rashad Armstrong

Litigation Counsel: Joshua Prince, Chief Counsel of Civil Rights Defense Firm, P.C.; FPC Director of Legal Strategy Adam Kraut

Docket: Court of Common Pleas case no. 191004036, Commonwealth Court case no. 1204 CD 2020, Pennsylvania Supreme Court case no. 81 EAL 2022

Key Events & Filings

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

• 2022-8-30: AND NOW, this 30th day of August, 2022, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal and the Applications for Leave to File Amicus Brief are HELD pending our disposition of the appeal filed in Crawford v. Commonwealth, 19 EAP 2022.
• 2022-3-30: Answer to Petition for Allowance of Appeal
• 2022-3-16: Petition for Allowance of Appeal

Commonwealth Court

• 2022-3-2: Appellee’s Answer to Appellant’s Application for Reasonable Attorney’s Fees
• 2022-2-16: Appellant’s Application for Reasonable Attorney’s Fees; Affidavit of Joshua Prince
• 2022-2-14: Opinion
• 2021-7-14: Appellant's Reply Brief
• 2021-7-9: Appellee's Principal Brief
• 2021-6-9: Appellant's Principal Brief

Court of Common Pleas

• 2020-11-13: Appeal to Commonwealth Court
• 2020-11-12: The motion for permanent injunction, offered by defendant, and any response thereto, it is hereby ordered and decreed that the motion is denied
• 2020-4-22: Continuation of hearing
• 2020-3-9: Defendant's Reply ISO Injunction
• 2020-3-5: Hearing
• 2020-2-7: Proposed Intervenors' Motion to Reassign; Memorandum in Support; Proposed Order
• 2020-2-7: Proposed Intervenors' Answer to Defendant's Preliminary Objections
• 2020-1-26: Preliminary Objections to Petition to Intervene and Exhibit 1; Brief in Support of Preliminary Objections; Proposed Order
• 2020-1-9: Order re Hearing, Stipulated Injunction, and Stay of Briefing
• 2019-12-24: Filed Stipulation re Injunction of Enforcement and Stay of Answer
• 2019-12-16: Motion for Injunction; Brief in Support of Motion; Exhibits to Brief in Support
• 2019-12-9: Preliminary Objections and Exhibits; Brief in Support of Preliminary Objections

Related News Releases:

• 2022-2-15: FPC Victory: PA Appellate Court Rules Philadelphia “Lost or Stolen” Ordinance is Unlawful

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