Second Amendment Challenge Is Moot, Illinois Supreme Court Rules

The Illinois Supreme Court rejected as moot a challenge to a law allowing state police to suspend someone’s Firearm Owners Identification card after they’re charged with a felony.

Plaintiff Malik Cedrick Bright’s FOID card was reinstated not long after he filed the underlying suit, Justice Joy Cunningham wrote Thursday for a unanimous court, effectively ending the dispute and leaving the court without an active controversy to decide.

Bright’s attorney urged the justices at oral argument in March to consider the case a broad facial challenge to the validity of the statute.

But in Thursday’s opinion, Cunningham noted ...