Talk:Castle Rock v. Gonzales

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[edit] Disputed

I'll rewrite the article myself in a couple of weeks, but for the moment, the description of the case and its background is flat-out wrong. Colorado had a "mandatory arrest" statute for restraining order violations, which Gonzales argued gave her a property right in its enforcement, which is what she argued was violated (asides from the violation of the mandatory arrest provision - which wouldn't have been a matter for federal courts anyway). The issue of Federal enforcement of restraining orders was never raised (and wouldn't have made it to SCOTUS if it had!) and the court really didn't rule on anything besides Gonzales's property right claim and the due process complaint. Technically, the court didn't even rule that Castle Rock wasn't responsible so much as that it just ruled Castle Rock hadn't violated the 14th Amendment (the Court opinion treated the restraining order as a process, and decided that there are no due process rights to be provided a process) and the suit could thus be thrown out of Federal court.

Also, the gun control thing, while it wouldn't surprise me to find it's true, as always a source would be good.The Literate Engineer 07:39, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Massive Re-write part 1, done. Oh yay. I changed the tag from disputed, since it's no longer disputed, just incomplete.