SAN FRANCISCO — Anyone waiting for Nordyke v. King to answer burning questions about Second Amendment jurisprudence might have to look elsewhere.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday referred the gun-rights case to mediation. The order raises the possibility that after 12 years of litigation that has included five rounds of oral arguments and a trip to the state Supreme Court, there will be no merits opinion on the challenge to Alameda’s 1999 ordinance banning firearm possession on county property — including the fairgrounds — which gun show promoters said amounted to a ban on gun shows in the county.
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