The Idaho Supreme Court upheld a lower-court decision affirming the right to ban firearms at a private music festival on city land in Sandpoint, Idaho.
Scott Herndon and Jeff Avery filed the lawsuit claiming the city and Festival at Sandpoint violated their 2nd Amendment rights by not allowing them entry to the festival on Aug. 9, 2019, because they were carrying firearms.
Additional plaintiffs included the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance and Second Amendment Foundation.
On April 26, 2021, the District Court heard oral arguments before taking the matter under advisement and reaching a decision on June 10, 2021, to dismiss the lawsuit “with prejudice.”
Dismissing a case with prejudice means it cannot be re-filed. The plaintiffs appealed the decision, rejected by the state’s highest court on June 22….