Two years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 US 570, 128 S.Ct. 2783, 171 L.Ed.2d
637, this Court held that the Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for
the purpose of self-defense and struck down a District of Columbia law that banned the possession
of handguns in the home. Chicago (hereinafter City) and the village of Oak Park, a Chicago
suburb, have laws effectively banning handgun possession by almost all private citizens. After
Heller, petitioners filed this federal suit against the City, which was consolidated with two related�…

A court-approved settlement will do. As this Court then went on to explain after that
quotation, plaintiff in Johnny's IceHouse was a "prevailing party" precisely because this Court
had entered an "Order formalizing and memorializing [defendant's] commitment [that] legally
altered the relationship between the parties, making Johnny's IceHouse a prevailing party under
the standard announced in Buckhannon." No such order, no legal equivalent of the type required
by Buckhannon, was entered in this action. And that of course is the whole point�… Next McDonald�…

Counsel for plaintiffs in this action have filed their "Response to Order of June 27, 2008," seeking
to explain their reason for having included Mayor Richard M. Daley as well as the City of Chicago
as a defendant in their recently-filed Complaint (this Court's sua sponte memorandum order had
dismissed Mayor Daley from the lawsuit). Although the Response concludes by voicing no objection
to whatever this Court ultimately decides in that respect, this brief memorandum order is issued
to explain why both the original Complaint and the Response appear to reflect a misunderstanding�…

OTIS McDONALD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, et al., Defendants�… United States
District Court, ND Illinois, Eastern Division�… This is one of three cases on this Court's calendar
that seek to extrapolate from the Supreme Court's decision in Dist. of Columbia v. Heller, 128
S.Ct. 2783 (2008) to invalidate municipal ordinances that ban handguns—indeed, plaintiffs' counsel
brought this lawsuit only one day after Heller came down (obviously having anticipated the decision
reached by the five-Justice majority). This case, like National Rifle Association of America�…

Mysteriously the postal authorities stamped the envelope "Addressee unknown," and nearly
two weeks later the mailing found its way back to counsel's office in Lisle, Illinois. This Court will
put aside the Postal Service's apparent determination that this Court is a non-person, even though
it has been occupying the Room 2388 judicial chambers for years—instead this memorandum
is issued simply to reassure plaintiffs' counsel that no violation of court rules is to be placed at
his doorstep.

Two years ago, in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 US ___ (2008), we held that the Second
Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, and we
struck down a District of Columbia law that banned the possession of handguns in the home.
The city of Chicago (City) and the village of Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, have laws that are similar
to the District of Columbia's, but Chicago and Oak Park argue that their laws are constitutional
because the Second Amendment has no application to the States. We have previously held that�…