The Robert Levy Case

Robert Levy was a very brilliant and ambitious man that did well for himself in his early years; from earning his PhD in business to starting his own financial information and software firm called CDA Investment Technologies, where he later sold it for millions of dollars. He later decided to attend George Mason University law school at the age of forty-nine due to the fact they accepted libertarian scholar. He graduated and landed a law position with Royce Lamberth, at the federal district court in Washington and later on at the D.C. Circuit for Douglas Ginsburg. Apparently, Levy was older than the judges he worked for as a law clerk.
Levy incorporate the same business ethics to law. He had key interest in the Second Amendment that confer an individual to bear arms which at that time got a lot of attention even though he was not a owner of a gun. Although the federal government was going to advocate the individual rights in all legal action, …show more content…
Levy agreed to fund the case by himself when Clark Neily III and Simpson asked him. Along with Clark Neily III and Steve Simpson, Levy hired Alan Gura a lawyer from Virginia who had an aggressive approach with no experience with the Supreme Court nor the constitutional litigation to served with him and the other individuals on the Courts. However, when the National Rifle Association heard that Levy and his team were zooming in on their turf they were not too please. Neily was approach by his old professor Nelson Lund from George Mason and Charles a former Rea-gan-era Justice Department official with close ties to the conservatives movement to talk him out of funding the the case. He was told that a bad ruling could set back the case for years and Rehnquist and O’Connor would never buy a revision of the Second