Supreme Court rules in federal gun possession case

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] on Wednesday ruled in US v. Castleman [opinion, PDF; SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that a federal law [18 USC § 922(g)(9), text] banning gun possession after a state domestic abuse conviction involving "physical force" can be satisfied by the degree of force supporting a common law battery conviction, namely, "offensive touching." In 2001, James Alvin Castleman pleaded guilty to a Tennessee misdemeanor of having "intentionally or knowingly cause[d] bodily injury to" the mother of his...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/03/supreme-court-rules-in-federal-gun-possession-case.php

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