Legal Experts Predict Tough Slog for NRA in Suit Against San Francisco
Legal experts predict the National Rifle Association won’t get far in its lawsuit challenging San Francisco’s decision to brand it a terrorist group, but that could change if the city takes action against contractors that work with the NRA, according to one First Amendment scholar.
If the city cuts ties with contractors that do business with the gun rights advocate, “that would violate the First Amendment because it would punish people and entities for their association,” University of California, Berkeley, professor Erwin Chemerinsky told Courthouse News Service Tuesday.
University of California-Hastings law professor David Levine said, “I don’t think the NRA can do much about it. I think a better plaintiff would be a vendor saying you can’t do this to us.”
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