MAI v. U.S.

No. 18-36071.

952 F.3d 1106 (2020)

Duy T. MAI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America; United States Department of Justice; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; Federal Bureau of Investigation; William P. Barr, Attorney General; Christopher A. Wray, as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Regina Lombardo, as Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 11, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vitaliy Kertchen (argued), Tacoma, Washington, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Abby C. Wright (argued) and Michael S. Raab , Appellate Staff; Brian T. Moran , United States Attorney; Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General; Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Susan P. Graber and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and David A. Ezra, District Judge.


OPINION

Plaintiff Duy Mai recently sought to buy a firearm, but federal law barred him from doing so. A number of years ago, Plaintiff was committed involuntarily, for more than nine months, to a mental institution after a Washington state court found him to be both mentally ill and dangerous. Title 18 U.S.C. §...

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