On 4-1, I and two other attorneys appeared in Cook Co. court to argue the County's Motion to Dismiss our Amended Complaint challenging the Cook Co. assault weapons ban. Our original complaint was dismissed several months back, we were given leave to file an amended one, and the county then filed a motion to dismiss that.
Our amended complaint has 6 counts, raising equal protection, due process, overbreadth, 2nd Amendment, and other challenges. I argued the overbreadth and equal protection counts. The overbreadth alleges that the definitions in the statute are so vague that the ordinance bans guns that no rational person could consider an assualt weapon (like Winchester SuperX and Browning Short Trac BARs), and the equal protection count alleges that the section of the ordinance that bans guns specifically by name (i.e., "Bushmaster XM15, Olympic Arms PCR, Ruger Mini-14", etc) violates E.P. because it treats the owner of a Bushmaster differently than the owner of a virtually identical, yet not banned, Stag Arms rifle (for instance).
Long story short, the arguments went pretty well, I think. Better than the last ones did, anyway. It's obviously an uphill battle, challenging a Cook Co. ordinance in Cook Co. court, but that's what we have to do. The judge took the case under advisement and will issue a written ruling by mail at some point in the future. We think she might actually sit on it until after Heller comes down in June. If that case goes our way, it could have a significant impact on how this case goes.