NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION, INC. v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA

No. S239397.

5 Cal.5th 428 (2018)

NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

June 28, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence G. Keane ; Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Daniel C. DeCarlo and Lance A. Selfridge for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra , Attorneys General, Edward C. DuMont , State Solicitor General, Janill L. Richards , Principal Deputy State Solicitor General, Samuel P. Siegel , Associate Deputy State Solicitor General, Douglas J. Woods and Thomas S. Patterson , Assistant Attorneys General, Tamar Pachter , Emmanuelle S. Soichet , Mark R. Beckington and Nelson R. Richards , Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendant and Respondent.

J. Adam Skaggs , Hannah Shearer ; Munger, Tolles & Olson, David H. Fry and Craig A. Lavoie for Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

Caldwell Leslie & Proctor, Boies Schiller Flexner , Michael R. Leslie , Andrew Esbenshade and Amy E. Pomerantz for Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

UCLA School of Law, Sean B. Hecht and Meredith J. Hankins for California Environmental Law Professors Ann Carlson, Holly Doremus, Richard Frank, Meredith Hankins, Sean Hecht, Helen Kang, John Leshy, Albert Lin, Dave Owen, Claudia Polsky, James Salzman, Daniel Selmy and Deborah Sivas as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

Civil Code section 3531 provides that "[t]he law never requires impossibilities." In this case, plaintiff National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. (NSSF), argues that this provision authorizes a court to declare another statute, Penal Code section 31910, subdivision (b)(7)(A), unenforceable when a complainant...

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