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A federal judge ruled Wednesday night that claims made by the National Rifle Association against a non-profit seeking to sever ties with the organization cannot be decided in federal court.<\/p>\n

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The NRA sued the NRA Foundation, which has since rebranded as the 1791 Foundation, accusing it of misusing intellectual property, unjust enrichment and breach of contract, The Wall Street Journal reported. United States District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, a Biden appointee, that most of the NRA\u2019s claims were \u201cnovel\u201d and therefore needed to be heard in a separate legal action in local courts. (RELATED: Ketanji Brown Jackson Really Worried Judges Might Actually Apply Second Amendment In Gun Cases)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Court finds that adjudicating the NRA\u2019s D.C.-law claims would require more judicial resources than the federal claims at every stage of this case,\u201d Sooknanan wrote in the 31-page opinion. \u201cAs an initial matter, although not dispositive, the NRA\u2019s D.C.-law claims outnumber its federal claims.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wayne LaPierre, NRA vice president and CEO, speaks to guests at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in 2019 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe district court upheld the NRA\u2019s trademark claims and rejected the Foundation\u2019s arguments for a ruling in its favor on the NRA\u2019s other claims,\u201d Andrew Grossman, an attorney with Baker Hostettler representing the NRA in the case, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. \u201cThe NRA has refiled its D.C.-law claims in the D.C. Superior Court.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The dispute originated in the August 2020 lawsuit filed by Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James, which sought the dissolution of the NRA. A Manhattan jury later found that then-NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre had enriched himself, and he was barred from any leadership role in the group for ten years.<\/p>\n

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Prior to the ruling, LaPierre had stepped down for health reasons, testifying in January 2024 that he suffered from late-stage Lyme disease, with symptoms including a \u201cform of dementia\u201d and that doctors had feared he would suffer a \u201cserious medical episode.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs expected, the courts have rejected the organization formerly known as the NRA Foundation\u2019s erroneous attempt to dismiss the NRA\u2019s lawsuit,\u201d the NRA said in a statement to the DCNF. \u201cThis ruling clears the way for our challenge to proceed and explicitly directs the NRA to file a companion case in Washington, D.C. We anticipated this result\u00a0and have filed\u00a0that second lawsuit in the nation\u2019s capital.\u201d<\/p>\n

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