Texasgrillchef
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When a State makes a law that we feel is unconstitutional, we take the state to court. To get them to rule that the law is unconstitutional and to overturn the law.
Along the way appeals to higher courts are made along the way. Sometimes multiple appeals for various different items and motions.
Eventually makeing its way up the ladder and eventually to making a petition to SCOTUS to have them hear the case. Only once cert is give does SCOTUS hear the case. If they refuse the lower circuit courts ruling stands. This could be in our favor or this could be against us. The vast majority of the time it is against us and our 2A rights.
Even when SCOTUS hears a gun case they may not always find in our favor. Although they have found in our favor a few times. Just as the lower circuit courts have found in our favor a few times as well. Although rare.
However, please correct me if I am wrong. In all the readings i have read, i have never found once where when we have won in our favor, where the courts have awarded us any monetary amount to either cover all the legal fees and costs etc, or any punitive damages, or any other monetary amount.
So my question to the lawyers is this.
Is it not possible to sue for monetary amounts to cover legal fees, punitive damages as well as a monetary amount for damages to loss of my constitutional rights for the time period the case was fought?
Is this not possible? if it is possible why hasnt it been done?
Maybe if we sued the State for massive monetary damages punitive and otherwise, millions upon millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars, and actually won a few states coating them hundred of millions of dollars, maybe some of the Democrats would start thinking twice before they push through bills that might cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars???
Along the way appeals to higher courts are made along the way. Sometimes multiple appeals for various different items and motions.
Eventually makeing its way up the ladder and eventually to making a petition to SCOTUS to have them hear the case. Only once cert is give does SCOTUS hear the case. If they refuse the lower circuit courts ruling stands. This could be in our favor or this could be against us. The vast majority of the time it is against us and our 2A rights.
Even when SCOTUS hears a gun case they may not always find in our favor. Although they have found in our favor a few times. Just as the lower circuit courts have found in our favor a few times as well. Although rare.
However, please correct me if I am wrong. In all the readings i have read, i have never found once where when we have won in our favor, where the courts have awarded us any monetary amount to either cover all the legal fees and costs etc, or any punitive damages, or any other monetary amount.
So my question to the lawyers is this.
Is it not possible to sue for monetary amounts to cover legal fees, punitive damages as well as a monetary amount for damages to loss of my constitutional rights for the time period the case was fought?
Is this not possible? if it is possible why hasnt it been done?
Maybe if we sued the State for massive monetary damages punitive and otherwise, millions upon millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars, and actually won a few states coating them hundred of millions of dollars, maybe some of the Democrats would start thinking twice before they push through bills that might cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars???