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In her January 2009, Maloney v Cuomo, a case that didn't even involve firearms but rather a pair of nunchaku, Sotoamyor volunteered this bit of "wise old latina" wisdom: "It is settled law, however, that the Second Amendment applies only to limitations the federal government seeks to impose on this right, said the opinion.
In the decision, Justice Paul Pfeifer noted that deleted e-mails constituted a "novel issue" that had not yet been become settled law.
Such sentiments, however high-minded, do not represent a legal basis for upsetting settled law and overriding the prerogatives of political branches," Raymond Randolph, a senior circuit court judge on the panel, wrote in the decision on Wednesday.
 
 
 
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