In today's United States v. Rehlander (1st Cir. Jan. 13, 2012)<http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=10-1812P.01A>, the First Circuit revisited and narrowed its precedents related to 18 U.S.C. ยง 922(g)(4) - the statute that bars gun possession by people who had at some point been "committed to a mental institution" - in light of the Second Amendment; see http://volokh.com/2012/01/13/a-second-amendment-ish-victory-for-people-who-had-been-temporarily-committed-to-mental-institutions-with-no-adversary-proceedings/ for an excerpt.
Eugene
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