United States Fourth Circuit

A gun-show promoter and an exhibitor at that promoter's gun shows do not have standing to challenge in federal court a county law that denies public funding to venues that display and sell guns.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/11/2005
• Published 03/11/2005

Judges

• Before LUTTIG and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and W. Craig BROADWATER, United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Clifford Lee Royalty, county attorney's office for the County of Montgomery, Rockville, Maryland, for Appellant.  Jonathan Paul Kagan, Brassel & Baldwin, P.A., Annapolis, Maryland, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:Charles W. Thompson, Jr., County Attorney, Marc P. Hansen, Chief, General Counsel Division, Karen L. Federman Henry, Principal Counsel for Appeals, Rockville, Maryland, for Appellant.  Alexander J. May, Brassel & Baldwin, P.A., Annapolis, Maryland, for Appellees.