Columbus, OH – On Monday, The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in Snope v. Brown, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case and make it clear to lower courts that they must follow and apply Supreme Court precedents. 

“Lower courts must adhere to the controlling decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in all cases. The dangers of ignoring this basic legal principle, as Chief Justice William Rehnquist explained, is ‘anarchy…within the federal judicial system,’” said David C. Tryon, director of litigation at The Buckeye Institute. “Unfortunately, some lower are side-stepping high court directives they do not like, creating the very anarchy Chief Justice Rehnquist warned us of.”

In its brief, The Buckeye Institute argues that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in its ruling in Snope v. Brown when it disregarded the U.S. Supreme Court precedent in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen and upheld Maryland’s law banning many semiautomatic rifles. 

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