Nordyke v. King Oral Argument

Jan 15, 2009

C-SPAN U.S. Court of Appeals | Ninth Circuit

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals head oral arguments in the case of Nordyke v. King et al. in which gun show operators Russell and Sallie Nordyke appealed a ban of firearms from the Alameda County Fairgrounds that did not except gun shows. Mary King was one of the members of the Alamed County Board of Supervisors named in the suite. The .. Read More
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals head oral arguments in the case of Nordyke v. King et al. in which gun show operators Russell and Sallie Nordyke appealed a ban of firearms from the Alameda County Fairgrounds that did not except gun shows. Mary King was one of the members of the Alamed County Board of Supervisors named in the suite. The plaintiffs contended that the ban violates their First Amendment right of free speech and their Second Amendment right to bear arms, as well as the due process clause as other groups were allowed to have guns on the fairgrounds. The plaintiffs also argued that the individual right to bear arms recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller must be recognized by states and not just the federal government under the 14th Amendment. Judge Gould participated via video link.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:00 Unidentified Speaker THE U.S. HOUSE GAVELS IN AT 12:34 SHORT GENERAL SPEECHES OTHER WORK BEGINS AT 2:00 P.M. EASTERN. IN...
00:00:52 Unidentified Speaker WE WILL HEAR ARGUMENTS IN NORDYKE VS. KING. WHEN TO MAKE SURE YOUR ONLINE AND CAN HIT THE PROCEEDINGS...
00:01:02 Unidentified Speaker I CAN HEAR YOU FINE. LET ME KNOW IF YOU CANNOT HEAR ME.
00:01:10 Unidentified Speaker THE COUNCIL FOR THE APPELLATE, YOU MAY PROCEED. CAN COUNCIL SEE THAT? IS THAT POSITION RIGHT FOR YOU?...
00:01:20 Unidentified Speaker YES, YOUR HONOR. MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT AND I REPRESENT THE PELLETS IN THIS MATTER, SEATED AT THE...
00:02:19 Unidentified Speaker I AM NOT SURE HOW THAT WILL IMPACT YOUR ARGUMENT, BUT I CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.
00:02:28 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE PREPARED REMARKS AND I AM ALSO PREPARED TO HAVE THE COURT ASKED QUESTIONS.
00:02:34 Unidentified Speaker I AM SURE WE WILL HAVE QUESTIONS.
00:02:37 Unidentified Speaker I AM ASKING TO REVERSE THE DECISION OF THE TRUCK COURT AND FINED IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL AS APPLIED THE...
00:03:27 Unidentified Speaker WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SUMMARY ARGUMENT. WE'RE LOOKING AT WHETHER THE O'BRIEN TEST APPLIES NOT.
00:03:36 Unidentified Speaker IF C. O'BRIEN TEST US UP LIKE, THEN THIS CASE REALLY HINGES ON THE FIRST AND FOURTH PART OF THE O'BRIEN...
00:04:06 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE NOT SAYING, ARE YOU, WHICH WOULD INDICATE O'BRIEN THAT THIS ORDINANCE, WHICH IS A GUN POSSESSION...
00:04:25 Unidentified Speaker NOT ON ITS FACE IS NOT, YOUR HONOR. BUT BEFORE THIS COURT ONCE BEFORE IN A FACIAL CHALLENGE AND THEN...
00:05:13 Unidentified Speaker I THOUGHT O'BRIEN REQUIRED THAT THERE BE SOME INDICATION THAT THE CHALLENGE LEGISLATION MUST BE AIMED...
00:05:37 Unidentified Speaker YOUR HONOR, THE COUNTY SPECIFICALLY REGULATES EXPRESSION WITH GUNS WHEN IT WENT INTO THE BUSINESS...
00:05:59 Unidentified Speaker WITH RESPECT TO THAT EXCEPTION, POSSESSION OF FIREARMS BY AUTHORIZE PARTICIPANTS IN A MOTION PICTURE,...
00:06:26 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD RESPOND TO THAT IN SEVERAL WAYS. THE COUNTY HAS NEVER INTERPRETED THAT TO APPLY TO GUN SHOWS....
00:07:19 Unidentified Speaker TO FOLLOW UP ON THE JUDGE'S QUESTION, DID IN THE FAIR GROUNDS AND ASK WHAT KIND OF PLAN YOU WOULD...
00:07:28 Unidentified Speaker WE RESPONDED WITH A LETTER TO SAY THAT WE WERE -- THAT WE SAW NO -- WE SAW NOTHING IN THE PLAN AND...
00:09:28 Unidentified Speaker THERE IS NO EXPRESS EXCLUSION OF GUN SHOWS BUT AN EXCEPTION MIGHT THE EVENTS LIKE THE SCOTTISH GAMES....
00:09:35 Unidentified Speaker WITH RESPECT TO THE FACTS OF THIS CASE, THAT IF THIS ORDINANCE HAD CONTAIN AN ORDINANCE FOR GUN SHOWS,...
00:09:46 Unidentified Speaker YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET INTO YOUR INCORPORATION ANNOUNCES THEN. THIS MAY BE THE FIRST CASE SINCE HELLER,...
00:10:06 Unidentified Speaker OUR POSITION IS THAT, BASICALLY FOOTNOTE 23 OF THE HELLER DECISION AND IT COULD BE ALMOST CONSTRUED...
00:11:06 Unidentified Speaker FOOTNOTE 23 LITERALLY SAYS WITH RESPECT TO CRUIKSHANK AND IN CORP., A QUESTION NOT PRESENTED IN THIS...
00:11:24 Unidentified Speaker THAT IS MOSTLY BECAUSE IT ROSE WITH THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. IT DID SAY THAT THE -- THE FEAR THAT...
00:11:56 Unidentified Speaker HOW CAN WE DO THAT IN LIGHT OF OUR THREE JUDGE PANEL DECISION IN THE FRESNO CASE, WHICH CITED DUNCAN?...
00:12:05 Unidentified Speaker IT DID CITE DUNCAN.
00:12:07 Unidentified Speaker IS THE THE DUNCAN WAS A DUE PROCESS CASE.
00:12:11 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD AGREE, YOUR HONOR.
00:12:14 Unidentified Speaker ARE WE DONE BY THE CASE?
00:12:15 Unidentified Speaker NO, YOU ARE NOT. WE SAID THAT A THREE JUDGE PANEL IS ENTITLED TO REVISIT ANOTHER THREE JUDGE PANEL...
00:12:38 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE THEY DID NOT RETURN THE ISSUE OF INCORPORATION?
00:12:44 Unidentified Speaker THIS COURT HAS TO ENGAGE IN AN ANALYSIS SIMILAR TO WHAT THE SUPREME COURT DID AND ORDER TO FIND OUT...
00:13:39 Unidentified Speaker YOU ARE ARGUING THAT FRESNO DID NOT DO THE DUE PROCESS AND ALIENATION -- THE DUE PROCESS ANALYSIS....
00:13:52 Unidentified Speaker NOT ONLY DID IT NOT DO THE DUE PROCESS, THE CASE WAS ALMOST TOTALLY ABOUT PRIVILEGES OF IMMUNITY AND...
00:14:11 Unidentified Speaker ON THE IN CORP. ISSUE, WHICH YOU SAY THAT HELLER ITSELF, SAYS THAT THE SELECTED INCORPORATION DOCTRINE...
00:14:37 Unidentified Speaker I WOULD AGREE WITH THAT, YOUR HONOR. IT MAY BE THE ONLY TEST BECAUSE THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT...
00:14:58 Unidentified Speaker IF YOU LOOK AT THE MILLER DECISION, AND WE SAY THAT FRESNO IS CLEARLY RECONCILABLE WITH HELLER, IF...
00:15:29 Unidentified Speaker YES, YOUR HONOR.
00:15:33 Unidentified Speaker EVEN IF WE WERE TO BE PERSUADED THAT THERE IS IN CORP., YOU STILL HAVE TO GET TO THE MERITS. WHAT...
00:16:35 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE SEVERAL RESPONSES TO THAT. NUMBER ONE, THIS SENSITIVE PLACES DOCTRINE PROCEEDS THE ORDINANCE,...
00:17:30 Unidentified Speaker GO AHEAD, JUDGE.
00:17:38 Unidentified Speaker THERE IS A SLIGHT DIFFERENT ISSUE THAT IS, GIVEN THAT THE AMENDMENT WAS NOT PERMITTED, IT SHOULD WE...
00:18:34 Unidentified Speaker I BELIEVE BOTH PARTIES TO ADDRESS THAT ISSUE IN THEIR BRIEFS. I BELIEVE THAT ONE OF THE THINGS WE...
00:19:26 Unidentified Speaker WHICH YOU PLAYED ANYTHING DIFFERENT IN THE LIGHT OF HELLER AND THE COMPLAINT THAT YOU HAD EARLIER?...
00:19:37 Unidentified Speaker I AM NOT SURE I UNDERSTAND THAT QUESTION.
00:19:45 Unidentified Speaker IN YOUR EARLIER MOTION TO AMEND, YOU ADDED AN AMENDMENT THAT WAS NOT PERMITTED, MY QUESTION IS IF...
00:20:10 Unidentified Speaker NO, I WOULD NOT. I BELIEVE THAT THE ORDINANCE IS PROBABLY FACIALLY INVALID AN INVALID AS APPLIED TO...
00:20:20 Unidentified Speaker COUNSEL, YOU ARE DOWN TO ONE MINUTE, WHICH LIKE TO RESERVE?
00:20:26 Unidentified Speaker I LIKE TO RESERVE.
00:20:27 Unidentified Speaker WE WILL HEAR FROM COUNTY.
00:21:00 Unidentified Speaker I AM PETER PEARCE AND I AM HERE TO REPRESENT THE COUNTY. JOHNSON VS. TEXAS DOES NOT APPLY HERE. THIS...
00:22:01 Unidentified Speaker I SUPPOSE THE ARGUMENT IS INCIDENTAL. THE EFFECT IS CHILL THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
00:22:15 Unidentified Speaker THE O'BRIEN COURT RECOGNIZE THAT WHEN SPEECH AND NON SPEECH OF ELEMENTS ARE INVOLVED IN THE SAME COURSE...
00:23:52 Unidentified Speaker IS THAT WITH RESPECT TO EXEMPTION NO. 4? WITH THAT FITS WITHIN THE NO. 4 AS AN EVENT?
00:24:05 Unidentified Speaker XIT FOR THE CELL, WITH THE REST OF THE DEMONSTRATION AND THE SHOWING FIT WITHIN THAT EXEMPTION?
00:24:12 Unidentified Speaker IF THE PLAINTIFFS WANTED TO CONDUCT A GUN SHOW WITHIN THE EXCEPTION THEY COULD AND THAT IS WHY THEY...
00:24:58 Unidentified Speaker I ASSUME FROM YOUR EARLIER REMARKS THAT IN ANY EVENT, NO SELF BE COMMITTED UNDER THIS ORDINANCE.
00:25:04 Unidentified Speaker KNOW, THAT IS NOT THE CASE AT ALL. IT IS IN THE COUNTY'S POSITION ALL ALONG THAT PLAINTIFFS WOULD...
00:25:35 Unidentified Speaker IT SEEMS STRANGE TO ME THAT YOU CAN HAVE A GUN SHOW WITHOUT THE SHOWING OF GUNS. [LAUGHTER]
00:25:49 Unidentified Speaker HOW COULD THE ORDINANCE TAKE CARE OF THAT?
00:25:53 Unidentified Speaker THE POINT IS TAKEN, YOUR HONOR, BUT I DO NOT THINK HE CAN BE ASSUMED AS A MATTER OF LAW THAT A SALE...
00:27:37 Unidentified Speaker YOU MAY PROCEED.
00:27:39 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR. BEFORE THE COURT REACHES THE CORP. QUESTION, IT SEEMS APPROPRIATE TO ASK WHETHER...
00:28:43 Unidentified Speaker YOUR OPPOSING COUNSEL REFERRED TO THE SENSITIVE PLACES PASSAGE. WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE?
00:28:52 Unidentified Speaker OUR RESPONSE IS THAT THE COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS IS A SENSITIVE PLACE AND THAT THE DETERMINATION CAN BE...
00:30:30 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU ON THAT. I HAVE TWO RELATED QUESTIONS. IF INDIVIDUALS, AS HELLER SAID, HAVE...
00:31:17 Unidentified Speaker YOUR HONOR, WITH RESPECT TO THE FIRST QUESTION, IS THERE A COROLLARY RIGHT THAT ENSUES FROM HELLER,...
00:32:08 Unidentified Speaker DOES THE RECORD THAT WAS MADE ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT CLAIM TELL US WHAT OPPORTUNITIES PEOPLE HAVE...
00:32:24 Unidentified Speaker OTHER THAN AT A GUN SHOW, NO, BUT GUN SHOWS CAN BE HELD ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, AT LEAST THE ORDINANCE...
00:33:08 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU.
00:33:14 Unidentified Speaker IT IS THE COUNTY'S POSITION THAT BEFORE THE COURT CAN EITHER REACHED THE INCORPORATION QUESTION, AND...
00:33:44 Unidentified Speaker IF WE ARE NOT PERSUADED BY YOUR SEQUENCE, IN OTHER WORDS, WE MIGHT REACH IN CORP. AND THEY GET TO...
00:33:59 Unidentified Speaker YES, YOUR HONOR. IT IS THE COUNTY'S POSITION THAT THIS IS BOUNDED BY PRESIDENT TO CONCLUDE THAT THE...
00:34:13 Unidentified Speaker ARE YOU RELYING ON FRESNO FOR THAT?
00:34:21 Unidentified Speaker IT RECOGNIZES THAT CRUIKSHANK HELD THAT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS A CONSTRAINT ON ACTIONS OF THE FEDERAL...
00:36:37 Unidentified Speaker NOTWITHSTANDING THE LITERAL TEXT A FOOTNOTE 23, THE ENTIRE REST OF THE OPINION SEEMS TO DWELL ENORMOUSLY...
00:37:38 Unidentified Speaker YOUR HONOR, I THINK THAT DISCUSSION WOULD BEAR UPON WHETHER OR NOT THE RIGHT TO POSSESS A FIREARM...
00:38:44 Unidentified Speaker SUPPOSE THIS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AS THAT OF A COUNTY OR A STATE, WHAT WOULD ANSWER BE?
00:38:54 Unidentified Speaker WHETHER THE RIGHT WAS INCORPORATED?
00:38:56 Unidentified Speaker I AM TRIED TO PUT HELLER IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS CASE. OBVIOUSLY HELLER WAS A STATUTE PROHIBITED POSITION...
00:39:26 Unidentified Speaker FINK THAT ANSWER WOULD STILL BE NO, YOUR HONOR. IT WOULD SEEM TO DEPEND ON WHETHER OR NOT --
00:39:48 Unidentified Speaker DID YOU JUST DISTINGUISHED THE RIGHT TO HAVE THE ARMS IN THE HOME OR FOR PURPOSES OF SELF-DEFENSE,...
00:40:04 Unidentified Speaker WHAT I WAS SAYING IS THAT THE RIGHT IS NOT IMPLICATED ON THIS RECORD, WHAT IS CRUCIAL AND HELLER IS...
00:40:14 Unidentified Speaker EXACTLY. MY QUESTION COMES BACK TO WHY SHOULD -- IF WE HAD THE HELLER STAT SHEET AND A STATE OF CALIFORNIA,...
00:40:35 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE, YOUR HONOR, -- THE JUDGE GOLD MADE REFERENCE TO THIS WHETHER THE SEC CAN'T -- FOR A THE SECOND...
00:41:39 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU, COUNSEL, YOUR TIME HAS EXPIRED. MR. KILMER, YOU HAVE ABOUT ONE MINUTE.
00:41:49 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR. WE'RE NOT ASKING THE COURT FOR PERMISSION TO CARRY GUNS ANYWHERE ON COUNTY...
00:42:09 Unidentified Speaker IN TERMS OF COMPLIANCE, YOU HEARD WHAT MR. PIERCE HAD TO SAY, WHY DON'T YOU FIT WITHIN EXCEPTION NO....
00:42:17 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE WHEN WE ASK THE COUNTY AND CORRESPONDENCE BEFORE --
00:42:27 Unidentified Speaker THEY SAY YOU DID NOT GET THEM A PLAN.
00:42:31 Unidentified Speaker THE PLAN WAS GIVEN BY THE FAIR GROUNDS MANAGER. A GUN SHOW COULD TAKE PLACE AS LONG AS THERE ARE NO...
00:43:32 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU, COUNSEL. THE CASE JUST ARGUE WOULD BE SUBMITTED FOR DECISION AND THE COURT WILL ADJOURN....

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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