Constitutional Rights

With the new measures, California became the first state to add an 11-percent tax to gun purchases and added more restrictions to concealed carry permits.

Landscapers say city rules forcing them to send business to minority-owner contractors run afoul of the U.S. Constitution.

The judge declared that California's ban on magazines holding over 10 rounds as a violation of the Second Amendment rights of firearms owners.

On Sept. 22, Justice Samuel Alito gave the court until Sept. 27 to decide if it will uphold a federal judge's order curbing government powers.

'Our faith was attacked,' former Hershey employee Kim Durham said. 'We should not be told what to do with our body just to go to work.'