Generally, those reasonable regulations would be about criminal background, background of mental instability, basically the ones that are outlined in the opinion of the judge who wrote the Parker decision, Judge Silverman.

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But rational calculations are not the only ones that influence public opinion, especially in the supercharged atmosphere of a first-ever referendum in a politically and ideologically divided society.

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King did agree to toss several individual claims involved in the multi-state litigation (to see which ones, scroll down to page 49 of the opinion.) But clearly the defendant banks were hoping their preemption argument would see all the cases thrown out of court for good.

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