Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Woollard v. Sheridan (Maryland Civil Case L-10-2068), filed in appellate court as Woollard v Gallagher (CA4 Case 12-1437) and filed at the United States Supreme Court under the same name (docket #13-42) is a civil lawsuit brought on behalf of Raymond Woollard, a resident of the State of Maryland, by the Second Amendment Foundation against Terrence Sheridan, Secretary of the Maryland State Police, and members of the Maryland Handgun Permit Review Board. Plaintiffs allege that the Defendants' refusal to grant a concealed carry permit renewal to Mr. Woollard on the basis that he "...ha[d] not demonstrated a good and substantial reason to wear, carry or transport a handgun as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger in the State of Maryland" was a violation of Mr. Woollard's rights under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore unconstitutional. The trial court found in favor of Mr. Woollard, but the Maryland statute was allowed to stand during the appeals process. The case is currently pending appeal en banc to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals after a three-judge panel of the Circuit Court reversed the trial court's decision.The case is notable as being the first direct challenge to a "may-issue" concealed carry firearms law in the United States, and also for being uncommon among challenges to U.S. firearms law in that the plaintiffs were successful in federal District Court, rather than requiring appeal to a Circuit Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court before a decision was handed down in the plaintiffs' favor.. }
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- Woollard_v._Gallagher abstract "Woollard v. Sheridan (Maryland Civil Case L-10-2068), filed in appellate court as Woollard v Gallagher (CA4 Case 12-1437) and filed at the United States Supreme Court under the same name (docket #13-42) is a civil lawsuit brought on behalf of Raymond Woollard, a resident of the State of Maryland, by the Second Amendment Foundation against Terrence Sheridan, Secretary of the Maryland State Police, and members of the Maryland Handgun Permit Review Board. Plaintiffs allege that the Defendants' refusal to grant a concealed carry permit renewal to Mr. Woollard on the basis that he "...ha[d] not demonstrated a good and substantial reason to wear, carry or transport a handgun as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger in the State of Maryland" was a violation of Mr. Woollard's rights under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore unconstitutional. The trial court found in favor of Mr. Woollard, but the Maryland statute was allowed to stand during the appeals process. The case is currently pending appeal en banc to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals after a three-judge panel of the Circuit Court reversed the trial court's decision.The case is notable as being the first direct challenge to a "may-issue" concealed carry firearms law in the United States, and also for being uncommon among challenges to U.S. firearms law in that the plaintiffs were successful in federal District Court, rather than requiring appeal to a Circuit Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court before a decision was handed down in the plaintiffs' favor.".