Jeremy Kellog, et al. v. Jonathan D. Nichols

Albany, New York personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation theory.



The Plaintiffs are New York State residents who applied for concealed carry licenses under the State's firearms licensing laws. Jonathan D. Nichols, a state court judge serving as a statutory firearms licensing officer, reviewed and denied their applications for failing to meet the statutory criteria for eligibility for * The Clerk of Court is directed to amend the caption as set forth above. a license. The Plaintiffs sued Judge Nichols in his individual and official capacities under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that New York's firearms licensing laws violate their rights under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. The United States District Court for the Northern District of New

York (Hurd, J.) dismissed the Plaintiffs' § 1983 claims, holding that absolute immunity barred their individual-capacity claims because Judge Nichols acted in his judicial capacity in ruling on their applications, and that § 1983 and Article

III's case-or-controversy requirement barred their claims for injunctive relief and declaratory relief, respectively.

Affirmed