Schoenthal v. Raoul - Plaintiffs file response brief in 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Schoenthal v. Raoul – Plaintiffs file response brief in 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

March 18, 2025

The ISRA files response brief in Mass Transit CCW case appeal

The ISRA has filed a brief in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals for the consolidated cases: Schoenthal et al v Raoul and Schoenthal et al v Eileen O’Neil Burke. Eileen O’Neil Burke is the recently elected Cook County States Attorney, replacing Kimberly Foxx as a named defendant.

This case deals with the right of a licensed concealed carry license holder to carry on public transportation.

This case is now in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals after a win for the plaintiffs Schoenthal et al in US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Western Division on August 30, 2024.

The ISRA looks forward to a favorable verdict by the Seventh Circuit of Appeals. We expect this case to eventually be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States.

This is a downloadable PDF of the response brief that was filed by ISRA’s attorney on March 14, 2025: Schoenthal v. Raoul – Response Brief

This is a downloadable PDF of the ruling in US District Court on August 30, 2024: Schroenthal-108-opinion-083024

“Ninety-eight percent of the people in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”

Lily Tomlin

“The people who work against your gun rights are basically saying to you, “The right of the criminal to rip you off, rape and kill you shall not be infringed.” And they wonder why we’re a bit testy”

Editor of KABA LIBERTY ADVOCATE, Friday, July 30, 2001

“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

“You may find me one day dead in a ditch somewhere. But by God, you’ll find me in a pile of brass.”

Tpr. M. Padgett

“Using inner city kids as your proof that guns and kids don’t mix, is like using an alcoholic to prove all people will abuse alcohol.”

Lori Broadhead

“How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.”

Ted Nugent

The said Constitution [shall] never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe or to prevent the people of the United States from keeping their own arms.”

Samuel Adams, Massachusetts' U.S. Constitution Ratification Convention, 1788

“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”

Thomas B. Reed (1886)

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution (1776)

“Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution are courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the constitution THEY don’t like.”

Alan Dershowitz

“Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun to stop a crime.”

Sen. Larry Craig

“The AK-47 is not a device of aggression … I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country,”

Schoenthal v. Raoul – Plaintiffs file response brief in 7th Circuit Court of Appeals

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