N. Mariana Islands Judge Denies Intervention In SAF 2A Action

By Ammoland

BELLEVUE, WA – -(Ammoland.com)- A federal judge in the Northern Mariana Islands has soundly rejected an attempt by a local school’s parent-teacher association to intervene in the Second Amendment Foundation’s successful challenge of a Commonwealth handgun prohibition because the case was already decided and the legislature has already replaced the unconstitutional statute.

“This was a clear victory for our cause on behalf of David and Li-Rong Radich,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “The case has already been decided, the gun ban was struck down as unconstitutional, and as a result, the challenge is moot.”

That is essentially what Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona said in her seven-page ruling. Noting that the “provisions challenged in this lawsuit no longer exist,” Judge Manglona wrote, “When the Commonwealth legislature repealed the law at the heart of this lawsuit, it rendered moot the case or controversy subject to judicial decision, and essentially made the scope of…gun control a political matter. Because there is no longer anything to appeal, (the) motion to intervene is denied.”

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