On June 28, 2010, the US Supreme Court held, in a 5 – 4 decision in McDonald v. Chicago, that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was incorporated under the Fourteenth Amendment, thus protecting the right of an individual to " keep and bear arms " from local governments, and all but declared Mayor Jane Byrne's 1982 handgun ban unconstitutional.

Craig was killed, Tommy Lyttle was declared persona non grata and various brigadiers were removed from office, with the likes of Jackie McDonald, Joe English and Jim Gray taking their places.

Physicist and UFO researcher Dr. James E. McDonald once flatly declared that Quintanilla was " not competent " from either a scientific or an investigative perspective.

But union officials and federal monitors eventually declared Abel the winner by a razor-thin margin of 10, 142 votes out of 600, 678 cast, and on May 20 McDonald declined to challenge the result.

In the 2010 landmark case McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court declared the Second Amendment is incorporated through the Due Process Clause.

McWhiney and Forrest McDonald were the authors of the " Celtic Thesis ," which holds that most Southerners were of Celtic ancestry ( as opposed to Anglo-Saxon ), and that all groups he declared to be " Celtic " ( Scots-Irish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Cornish ) were descended from warlike herdsmen, in contrast to the peaceful farmers who predominated in England.

In the 2010 case of McDonald v. Chicago, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, while concurring with the majority in declaring the Second Amendment applicable to state and local governments, declared he reached the same conclusion only through the Privileges or Immunities Clause.

Wheeler and McDonald identify five general assumptions TVA used and declared them all to be false.

McDonald finished in first place on the first count with 1, 833 votes ( 45. 00 %), and was declared elected on the second count.

Likewise, James McDonald has expressed the view that extreme groups undermined serious scientific investigation, stating that a " bizarre ' literature ' of pseudo-scientific discussion " on " spaceships bringing messengers of terrestrial salvation and occult truth " had been " one of the prime factors in discouraging serious scientists from looking into the UFO matter to the extent that might have led them to recognize quickly enough that cultism and wishful thinking have nothing to do with the core of the UFO problem.

Physicist Dr. James E. McDonald, for example, wrote to Hynek in 1970, castigating him for what McDonald saw as his lapses, and suggesting that, when evaluated by later generations, retired Marine Corps Major Donald E. Keyhoe would be regarded as a more objective, honest, and scientific ufologist.

McDonald was particularly disturbed that astronomer J. Allen Hynek, had not alerted the scientific community to the fact that Project Blue Book was withholding some of the most anomalous and compelling UFO reports.

Following a widely-publicized series of mass UFO sightings in southern Michigan in 1966, McDonald became one of several scientists to urge various authorities in the federal government and scientific community to undertake a formal study of UFOs.

Initially, McDonald shared the early general enthusiasm towards the Condon Committee, and given his scientific credentials and interest in UFOs he offered to serve on the committee.

Firestorm, a biography of McDonald by UFO researcher Ann Druffel, gives a detailed account of McDonald's tireless efforts promoting scientific UFO research.

A notable example was Dr. James E. McDonald of the University of Arizona, a well-known atmospheric physicist, and perhaps the leading scientific UFO researcher of his time.

In December 1969, physicist James E. McDonald called the Report " inadequate " and said " it represents an examination of only a tiny fraction of the most puzzling UFO reports of the past two decades, and that its level of scientific argumentation is wholly unsatisfactory.

The main thrust of the McDonald Report was that security intelligence work should be separated from policing, and that the activities of a new agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, should be subject to both judicial approval for warrants, as well as general oversight review by a new body, the Security Intelligence Review Committee, as well as the office of the Inspector General.

" McDonald asked Tyler if he should call back the plotters and warn Wheeler Field.

Frances writes that Ronald McDonald should be retired and McDonald's should halt advertising to kids, March 2010

Even his example of a mousetrap was shown to be reducible by John H. McDonald.

* Desolation Road ( 1988 ) by Ian McDonald is a magic-realist science fiction novel set on a planet that's never explicitly named ( though the name " Ares " makes frequent appearances in various contexts ) but is clearly meant to be a terraformed Mars.

Beginning in 1986, " London Greenpeace ", a small environmental campaigning group ( not to be confused with the larger Greenpeace International organisation, which they declined to join as they saw it being too " centralised and mainstream for their tastes "), distributed a pamphlet entitled What ’ s wrong with McDonald ’ s: Everything they don ’ t want you to know.

Currently, the McDonald criteria focus on a demonstration with clinical, laboratory and radiologic data of the dissemination of MS lesions in time and space for non-invasive MS diagnosis, though some have stated that the only proved diagnosis of MS is autopsy, or occasionally biopsy, where lesions typical of MS can be detected through histopathological techniques.

It was later confirmed by Joe McDonald that the Mets drafted Chilcott because of need, yet again the person running the Mets at the time was George Weiss a known racist, so the true motive may never be known.

An overview of recent arguments can be obtained from the papers of a conference held at the McDonald Institute in 2000.

With the surprise smash album embedded in the charts and more money to be earned on the road, the remaining Doobies ( Simmons, Knudsen, McDonald and Porter ) decided to forge ahead.

The LP featured the hit title track and the Top 10 smash " Real Love " ( not to be confused with the John Lennon composition ) but did not dominate the charts and the radio as Minute by Minute had two years earlier, largely due to an oversaturation of the " McDonald sound " by many other artists ( such as Robbie Dupree's hit " Steal Away ", which copied the " McDonald sound " nearly note for note ) heard on the radio at that time — not to mention McDonald's numerous guest vocal appearances on hits by other artists at that time, such as Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, and Nicolette Larson.

McDonald also reveals that Kurosawa was waiting for a big cloud to appear over Rashomon gate to shoot the final scene in which the woodcutter takes the abandoned baby home ; Kurosawa wanted to show that there might be another dark rain any time soon, even though the sky is clear at this moment.

In June 2012, a petition drive had been started to be presented to President Obama and the Speaker of the House John Boehner, to reopen the investigation both into the shooting down of KAL 007 and the reports of the survival of Larry McDonald.

Hence states may file briefs as amici curiae when their laws are likely to be affected, as in the Supreme Court case McDonald v. Chicago, when thirty-two states under the aegis of Texas ( and California independently ) filed such briefs.

The structure of the facts book will be designed to match the specific needs of the organization, but one simple format — suggested by Malcolm McDonald — may be applicable in many cases.

Manager Brian Talbot resigned in November 1991 to be succeeded by Ian McDonald.

On 29 November 2005, speculation that McDonald was about to leave ITV to work elsewhere ended when he signed a further two year contract involving producing both a documentary show and a new series of interviews which will be of a wider general interest.

It was announced on the 30 October 2008 that McDonald would step down from News at Ten once the US 2008 Presidential elections were over, to be replaced by Mark Austin.

In response to proposed tuition fee increases, Fox commented that previous student politicians, such as Jack Straw and Charles Clarke, " were only able to be active in student politics because they didn ’ t have 10, 000 of debt hanging round their neck and they didn ’ t have to rush off to work in McDonald ’ s ".

An example of an internet petition is the current petition to be presented to President Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner to reopen the investigation into the shooting down of KAL 007 and reports of the survival of Congressman Larry McDonald, a passenger on that flight.

She was supposed to be descended from the deerhounds of Cher Foreman McDonald.

Jones came up with the name from the fact that no matter what country they were in, three would be foreigners, because he, McDonald, and Elliott were English, while Gramm, Greenwood, and Gagliardi were Americans.

Reservations for McDonald Campground can be made by calling 1-877-737-3783.

First Baptist Church traces its origins to Bethel Baptist Church ( now Bethel Baptist Institutional Church ), founded under co-pastors James McDonald and Ryan Frier, the earliest Baptist church to be founded in Jacksonville.