re: #23 goddamnedfrank

It all depends on the SD Sheriff appealing the ruling. If he doesn’t it will apply across the entire 9th pretty quickly. If he does the ruling will almost certainly be put on hold until the Supremes either accept and rule or decline to hear.

Either way the CA legislature is probably best off coming up with some objective criteria and reasonable requirements. They could probably get away with requiring 16 to 20 hours of instruction and a million dollar liability policy. That alone would deter a lot of people from bothering.

From the quoted article, this decision could easily go the other way if the case goes to the full 9th circuit. If that were to happen the Supreme Court would doubtless step in to reverse. Given that, it would seem to be foolish for the SD sheriff to appeal.

I certainly agree that the state legislature needs to get out in front of this issue and do something useful.