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Constitutional Law,
Civil Litigation

Oct. 19, 2021

9th Circuit presses counties for rationale in closing gun shops

“It didn’t look like there was any serious health rationale at all,” Senior U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld told Paul B. Beach, a partner with Lawrence Beach Allen & Choi PC who represented Los Angeles County.

Attorneys for Los Angeles and Ventura counties were hit with pointed questions from a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel Monday over their orders requiring that gun stores close at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Senior U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, compared county health officers' decisions to allow bike shops...