John COPELAND, Pedro Perez, Native Leather Ltd., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
Knife Rights, Inc., Knife Rights Foundation, Inc., Plaintiffs,
v.
Cyrus R. VANCE, Jr., in his Official Capacity as the New York County District Attorney, City of New York, Defendants-Appellees,
Barbara Underwood, in her Official Capacity as Attorney General of the State of New York, Defendant.
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Argued: January 18, 2018.
Decided: June 22, 2018.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
DANIEL L. SCHMUTTER , Hartman & Winnicki, P.C., Ridgewood, NJ, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
ELIZABETH N. KRASNOW , Assistant District Attorney ( Patricia J. Bailey , Assistant District Attorney, on the brief), New York County District Attorney's Office, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.
William Gibney , Director, Special Litigation Unit, Criminal Defense Practice, Legal Aid Society, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Legal Aid Society, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Douglas M. Garrou , Hunton & Williams LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Profs. Gideon Yaffe, Brett Dignam, Jeffrey Fagan, Eugene Fidell, Stephen Garvey, Heidi Hurd, Douglas Husak, Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Tracy Meares, Gabriel Mendlow, Michael Moore, Stephen Morse, Martha Rayner, Scott Shapiro, Kenneth Simons, James Whitman, and Steven Zeidman, in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Before: Katzmann, Chief Judge, Kearse and Pooler, Circuit Judges.
Katzmann, Chief Judge:
Plaintiffs-appellants John Copeland, Pedro Perez, and Native Leather, Ltd. (collectively, "plaintiffs") appeal from a judgment against them following a bench trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Forrest, J.). Plaintiffs claim that New York's ban on gravity knives is void for...
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