
On
Monday, a U.S. Court of Appeals issued an order denying a request to
force a lower court to rule on Palmer v. District of Columbia, which
challenges the city’s outright ban on bearing arms.
The circuit judges wrote that the delay was not “so egregious or unreasonable as to warrant the extraordinary remedy of mandamus at this time.”
They added that, “We are confident that the district court will act on the motions as promptly as its docket permits.”
The definition of "promptly" seems to mean something different in the federal court system than it does for the rest of us, as it took the appeals court two months to just decide that the lower court was not slow walking the case.
In fact, that appears to be exactly what is happening.
The Palmer case was first filed in Aug. 2009, and four years later, it has not gotten past first base.
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