UF lawyers: Gun suit has no legal standing

[SecularMotion]

Florida Carry Inc. has no legal standing to sue the University of Florida and President Bernie Machen over its firearms policy, lawyers for the university said in a five-page motion to dismiss filed Friday.

The motion, filed on behalf of UF by Barry Richard, a shareholder with the Greenberg Traurig law firm, attempts to shoot holes in Florida Carry's arguments that UF illegally restricted the rights of students, faculty and staff to keep firearms on campus.

The suit says that UF has violated the Second Amendment and Florida law by prohibiting guns in cars, dorms and residential housing, but fails to show that any of Florida Carry's members were harmed by UF's firearms policies.

“The complaint fails to allege that even one member, much less a substantial number of members, are substantially affected by an alleged University violation of the cited statutory provisions,” Richard said in his motion to dismiss.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20140203/ARTICLES/140209901?Title=UF-lawyers-Gun-suit-has-no-legal-standing

[NYC_SKP]

1. This is the right decision, IMO.

The suit was just an attention-getter, they can't really have expected to prevail.

[Surf Fishing Guru]

2. Point of fact . . .

Point of fact, this article is not describing a decision in the case, it is describing the argument in a motion the party being sued has filed with the court . . .