Antonyuk v. Chiumento

89 F.4th 271

Ivan ANTONYUK, Corey Johnson, Alfred Terrille, Joseph Mann, Leslie Leman, Lawrence Sloane, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Dominick L. CHIUMENTO, in his official capacity as the Acting Superintendent of the New York

State Police, Matthew J. Doran, in his official capacity as the Licensing Official of Onondaga County, Joseph Cecile,

in his Official Capacity as the Chief of Police of Syracuse, Defendants-Appellants,

Kathleen Hochul, in her official capacity as the Governor of the State of New York, William Fitzpatrick,

in his official capacity as the Onondaga County District Attorney, Eugene Conway,

in his official capacity as the Sheriff of Onondaga County, P. David Soares,

in his official capacity as the District Attorney of Albany County, Gregory Oakes,

in his official capacity as the District Attorney of Oswego County, Don Hilton, in his official capacity as the Sheriff of Oswego County,

Joseph Stanzione, in his official capacity as the District Attorney of Greene County, Defendants.

Jimmie Hardaway, Jr., Larry A. Boyd, Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc.,Second Amendment Foundation, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Dominick L. Chiumento, in his official capacity as the Acting Superintendent of the New York State Police, Defendant-Appellant,Brian D. Seaman, in his official capacity as the District Attorney for the County of Niagara, New York,John J. Flynn, in his official capacity as the District Attorney for the County of Erie, New York, Defendants-Appellees.

Brett Christian, Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc., Second Amendment Foundation, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, John Brown, Plaintiff, v. Dominick L. Chiumento, in his official capacity as the Acting Superintendent of the New York State Police, Defendants-Appellants,John J. Flynn, in his official capacity as District Attorney for the County of Erie, New York, Defendant-Appellee.

Micheal Spencer, His Tabernacle Family Church, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Dominick L. Chiumento, Acting Superintendent of the New York State Police, in his official capacity,and Steven A. Nigrelli in his individual capacity, Defendants-Appellants,

Weeden A. Wetmore, District Attorney for the County of Chemung, New York,

in his official and individual capacities, Matthew Van Houten, District Attorney for the County of Tompkins, New York, in his official and individual capacities, Defendants.

Docket No. 22-2908 (L)

Docket No. 22-2972 (Con)

Docket No. 22-2933

Docket No. 22-2987

Docket No. 22-3237

August Term, 2022

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Argued: March 20, 2023

Decided: December 8, 2023

Ester Murdukhayeva, Deputy Solicitor General, New York State Office of the Attorney General, New York, NY (Barbara D. Underwood, Philip J. Levitz, Alexandria Twinem, Eric Del Pozo, Sara Coco; Letitia James, Jonathan D. Hitsous, New York State Office of the Attorney General, Albany, NY, on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellants Dominick L. Chiumento and Matthew A. Doran.

Todd M. Long, (Danielle R. Smith, on the briefs), City of Syracuse Office of the Corporation Counsel, Syracuse, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Joseph Cecile.

Stephen D. Stamboulieh, Stamboulieh Law, PLLC, Olive Branch, MS (Robert J. Olson, William J. Olson, William J. Olson, PC, Vienna, VA, on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellees Ivan Antonyuk, Corey Johnson, Alfred Terrille, Joseph Mann, Leslie Leman, And Lawrence Sloane.

John D. Ohlendorf, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, Washington, DC (David H. Thompson, Peter A. Patterson, John W. Tienken; Nicolas J. Rotsko, Phillips Lytle LLP, Buffalo, NY, on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellees Jimmie Hardaway, Jr., Larry A. Boyd, Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc., and Second Amendment Foundation, Inc.

Brian P. Crosby, (Melissa M. Morton, Claude A. Joerg, on the briefs), Gibson, McAskill & Crosby, LLP, Buffalo, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Brian D. Seaman.

Peter A. Patterson, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC, Washington, DC (David H. Thompson, John W. Tienken; Nicolas J. Rotsko, Phillips Lytle LLP, Buffalo, NY, on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellees Brett Christian, Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc., and Second Amendment Foundation, Inc.

Erin E. Murphy, Clement & Murphy, PLLC, Alexandria, VA (Andrew C. Lawrence, Nicholas M. Gallagher; David J. Hacker, Jeremy Dys, Keisha Russell, Ryan Gardner, First Liberty Institute, Plano, TX; Jordan E. Pratt, First Liberty Institute, Washington DC; Anjan K. Ganguly, Ganguly Brothers, PLLC, Rochester, NY, on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellees Micheal Spencer and His Tabernacle Family Church, Inc.

Jeffrey S. Trachtman, Susan Jacquemot, Jason M. Moff, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, NY for Amici Curiae Bishops of the Episcopal Church in New York and New England; Synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in New York and New England; New York Conference of the United Church of Christ; Central Conference of American Rabbis; Union for Reform Judaism; Men of Reform Judaism; Women of Reform Judaism; Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association; Reconstructing Judaism; and other individual religious leaders, in support of Defendants-Appellants in Antonyuk v. Chiumento and Hardaway v. Chiumento.

Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., District Attorney New York County, Steven C. Wu, Chief, Appeals Division, Philip V. Tisne, Assistant District Attorney, New York County District

Attorney's Office, New York, NY; Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney, Bronx County District Attorney's Office, Bronx, NY; Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Kings County District Attorney's Office, Brooklyn, NY; Melinda Katz, District Attorney, Queens County District Attorney's Office, Kew Gardens, NY, for Amici Curiae District Attorneys for New York County, Bronx County, Kings County, and Queens County, in support of Defendants-Appellants in Antonyuk v. Chiumento.

Janet Carter, William J. Taylor, Jr., Everytown Law, New York, NY for Amicus Curiae Everytown for Gun Safety, in support of Defendants-Appellants in Antonyuk v. Chiumento and Hardaway v. Chiumento.

Max Rodriguez, Pollock Cohen LLP, New York, NY; Raphael Janove, Pollock Cohen LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Amicus Curiae Dr. Jaclyn Schildkraut, Ph.D, in support of Defendants-Appellants in Antonyuk v. Chiumento.

P. Benjamin Duke, Covington & Burling LLP, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Brady, and March for Our Lives, in support of Defendants-Appellants in Hardaway v. Chiumento and Christian v. Chiumento.

Mark D. Harris, Matthew J. Morris, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY; Adam L. Deming, Proskauer Rose LLP, Boston, MA, for Amicus Curiae Greater New York Hospital Association, in support of Defendants-Appellants in Antonyuk v. Chiumento.

Alan Shoenfeld, Juan M. Ruiz Toro, Joshua M. Feinzig, William Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY; Simon B. Kress, William Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA, for Amici Curiae Professors of Property Law, in support of Defendants-Appellants in Antonyuk v. Chiumento.

Hon. Sylvia O. Hinds Radix, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Richard Dearing, Claude S. Platton, Elina Druker, of Counsels, New York City Law Department, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae The City of New York, in support of Defendants-Appellants in Antonyuk v. Chiumento.

Brian L. Schwab, Attorney General, Caroline S. Van Zile, Solicitor General, Ashwin P. Phatak, Principal Deputy Solicitor General, Alexandra Lichtenstein, Assistant Attorney General, District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.; Kwame Raoul, Attorney General, Jane Elinor Notz, Solicitor General, Sarah A. Hunger, Deputy Solicitor General, State of Illinois, Chicago, IL; Rob Bonta, Attorney General, State of California, Sacramento, CA; William Tong, Attorney General, State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT; Kathleen Jennings, Attorney General, State of Delaware, Wilmington, DE; Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General, State of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; Anthony G. Brown, Attorney General, State of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Elizabeth N. Dewar, Acting Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; Dana Nessel, Attorney General, State of Michigan, Lansing, MI; Keith Ellison, Attorney General, State of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General, State of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ; Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, State of Oregon, Salem, OR; Peter F. Neronha, Attorney General, State of Rhode Island, Providence, RI; Charity R. Clark, Attorney General, State of Vermont, Montpelier, VT; Robert W. Ferguson, Attorney General, State of Washington, Olympia, WA; Edward E. Manibusan, Attorney General, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan, MP, for Amici Curiae the District of Columbia, the States of Illinois, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, and the Northern Mariana Islands, in support of Defendants-Appellants in Antonyuk v. Chiumento.

Brian L. Schwab, Attorney General, Caroline S. Van Zile, Solicitor General, Ashwin P. Phatak, Principal Deputy Solicitor General, Alexandra Lichtenstein, Assistant Attorney General, District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.; Kwame Raoul, Attorney General, Jane Elinor Notz, Solicitor General, Sarah A. Hunger, Deputy Solicitor General, State of Illinois, Chicago, IL; Rob Bonta, Attorney General, State of California, Sacramento, CA; William Tong, Attorney General, State of Connecticut, Hartford, CT; Kathleen Jennings, Attorney General, State of Delaware, Wilmington, DE; Anne E. Lopez, Attorney General, State of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; Anthony G. Brown, Attorney General, State of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Andrea Joy Campbell, Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; Dana Nessel, Attorney General, State of Michigan, Lansing, MI; Keith Ellison, Attorney General, State of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General, State of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ; Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, State of Oregon, Salem, OR; Michelle A. Henry, Acting Attorney General, ...