YOUNG v. HAWAII

No. 12-17808.

45 F.4th 1087 (2022)

George K. YOUNG, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. State of HAWAII; Neil Abercrombie, in his capacity as Governor of the State of Hawaii; David Mark Louie I, Esquire, in his capacity as State Attorney General; County of Hawaii, as a sub-agency of the State of Hawaii; William P. Kenoi, in his capacity as Mayor of the County of Hawaii; Hilo County Police Department, as a sub-agency of the County of Hawaii; Harry S. Kubojiri, in his capacity as Chief of Police; John Does, 1-25; Jane Does, 1-25; Doe Corporations, 1-5; Doe Entities, 1-5, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 19, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Alexander Beck , Attorney, Law Offices of Alan Beck, San Diego, CA, Stephen D. Stamboulieh , Stamboulieh Law, PLLC, Olive Branch, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John M. Cregor, Jr., Esquire , Deputy Attorney General, Kaliko'Onalani Diara Fernandes , Deputy Solicitor, AGHI — Office of the Hawaii Attorney General, Honolulu, HI, Neal Kumar Katyal , Hogan Lovells US, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellants State of Hawaii, Neil Abercrombie, in his capacity as Governor of the State of Hawaii, David Mark Louie I, Esquire, in his capacity as State Attorney General,

Lerisa L. Heroldt, Esquire , Steven K. Idemoto , Deputy Corporation Counsels, Laureen L. Martin , Assistant Corporation Counsel, Office of the Corporation Counsel, Hilo Lagoon Centre, Hilo, HI, Neal Kumar Katyal , Hogan Lovells US, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees County of Hawaii, as a sub-agency of the State of Hawaii, William P. Kenoi, in his capacity as Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Harry S. Kubojiri, in his capacity as Chief of Police.

Neal Kumar Katyal , Hogan Lovells US, LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee Hilo County Police Department, as a sub-agency of the County of Hawaii.

Kimberly Tsumoto Guidry , Robert Tadao Nakatsuji, Esquire , AGHI — Office of the Hawaii Attorney General, Honolulu, HI, Neal Kumar Katyal , Hogan Lovells US, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae State of Hawaii.

Daniel E. Jackson, Esquire , Attorney, Keker, Van Nest & Peters, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae City and County of Honolulu, County of Kauai, County of Maui.

William James Taylor, Jr. , Everytown Law, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Everytown for Gun Safety.

Simon J. Frankel, Esquire , Attorney, Covington & Burling, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence.

Jeremy Feigenbaum, Esquire , Office of the New Jersey Attorney General, Trenton, NJ, for Amicus Curiae State of New Jersey.

John William Dillon , Attorney, Dillon Law Group, APC, Carlsbad, CA, for Amicus Curiae San Diego County Gun Owners Political Action Committee.

Richard Loren Holcomb, Jr., Esquire , Attorney, Holcomb Law, LLLC, Honolulu, HI, Carl D. Michel, Esquire , Senior Attorney, Michel & Associates, PC, Long Beach, CA, for Amicus Curiae Hawaii Rifle Association.

Donald L. Wilkerson , Attorney, Law Offices Donald L. Wilkerson, Laupahoehoe, HI, for Amicus Curiae Hawaii Firearms Coalition.

Herbert W. Titus, Esquire , William J. Olson, P.C., Vienna, VA, for Amici Curiae Gun Owners of America, Inc., Gun Owners Foundation, the Heller Foundation, Virginia Citizens Defense League, Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund, Restoring Liberty Action Committee.

Joseph Greenlee , Firearms Policy Coalition, Sacramento, CA, David G. Sigale , Law Firm of David G. Sigale, P.C., Wheaton, IL, for Amicus Curiae Second Amendment Foundation.

Joseph Greenlee , Firearms Policy Coalition, Sacramento, CA, Donald Kilmer, Jr. , Attorney, Law Offices of Donald Kilmer, Caldwell, ID, for Amici Curiae Madison Society Foundation, Inc., Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc., Firearms Policy Foundation, State of New York.

Donald Kilmer, Jr. , Attorney, Law Offices of Donald Kilmer, Caldwell, ID, for Amicus Curiae The Calguns Foundation.

Neal Goldfarb, Washington, DC, Pro Se.

Aditya Dynar , Pacific Legal Foundation, Arlington, VA, for Amicus Curiae New Civil Liberties Alliance.

Jeremy Feigenbaum, Esquire , Office of the New Jersey Attorney General, Trenton, NJ, Samuel P. Siegel , California Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae State of California.

Jeremy Feigenbaum, Esquire , Office of the New Jersey Attorney General, Trenton, NJ, for Amici Curiae State of Connecticut, State of Delaware, State of Illinois, State of Iowa, State of Massachusetts, State of Maryland, State of Oregon, State of Rhode Island, State of Virginia, District of Columbia.

Antonio Perez-Marques , Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Prosecutors Against Gun Violence

John Cutonilli, Garrett Park, MD, Pro Se.

Joseph Greenlee , Firearms Policy Coalition, Sacramento, CA, for Amici Curiae Professors of Second Amendment Law, Cato Institute, California Gun Rights Foundation, Independence Institute.

Carl D. Michel, Esquire , Senior Attorney, Michel & Associates, PC, Long Beach, CA, for Amici Curiae California Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., Gun Owners of California, Inc.

Elizabeth B. Murrill , Solicitor General, Office of Attorney General Lousiana, Litigation Division, Special Litigation, Baton Rouge, LA, for Amici Curiae State of Louisiana, State of Alabama, State of Arizona, State of Arkansas, State of Georgia, State of Idaho, State of Indiana, State of Kansas, State of Kentucky, State of Mississippi, State of Montana, State of Nebraska, State of North Dakota, State of Ohio, State of Oklahoma, State of South Carolina, State of South Dakota, State of Texas, State of Utah, State of West Virginia.

Brian Matsui , Morrison & Foerster LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Corpus Linguistics Professors and Experts.

Michael T. Jean , NRA Office of the General Counsel, Fairfax, VA, for Amicus Curiae National Rifle Association of America, Inc.

Matthew J. Silveira , Jones Day, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Social Scientists and Public Health Researchers.

Mark D. Selwyn , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for Amicus Curiae Professors of History and Law.

Jon Lowy , Attorney, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Washington, DC, Mark Murakami, Esquire , Attorney, Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert, Honolulu, HI, for Amicus Curiae Brady.

Dissent by Judge O'Scannlain


ORDER

The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of this Court, 992 F.3d 765, and has remanded this case to us "for further consideration in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. ___, 142 S.Ct. 2111, ___ L.Ed.2d ___ (2022)," Young v. Hawaii, ___ U.S. ___, 142 S.Ct. 2895, 2896, ___ L.Ed.2d ___ (2022). We vacate the judgment of the district court and remand this case to the district court for further proceedings pursuant...

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