Donald Kilmer, Jr.
Legal Advisor
Donald Kilmer is an attorney at law whose focus is on criminal and civil rights cases involving Constitutional Rights. Mr. Kilmer has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Lincoln University Law School since 2001. His coursework includes:
Constitutional Law I & II - Core curriculum taught to 2L and 3L students as a required course.
Constitutional Adjudication - A survey course about the relationship between the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the other political branches of government. Discussion and coursework included how constitutional law gets interpreted, litigated, and decided. The course also took up the underlying stories and personalities behind some of the most famous and infamous cases dealing with constitutional law issues.
Firearms Law - Constitution, Statutes, Regulations – An elective course that covered federal and state laws regulating the "right to keep and bear arms." The course also addressed California’s unique role in shaping modern gun policy, including issues as diverse as domestic violence, mental health, commercial sales, movie props, assault weapons, self-defense, and the civil rights movement. The course also covered the significant Supreme Court cases interpreting the Second Amendment and developing cases in the Circuit Courts of Appeal and State Courts.
Attorney Kilmer has also taught firearm law to fellow members of the California State Bar and the Santa Clara County Bar Association for Continuing Education Credits. Mr. Kilmer also testified as a witness and was a contributor to the Judicial Council’s Domestic Violence Practice and Procedure Task Force with respect to Firearm Relinquishment and Safe-Keeping Pending Domestic Violence Protective Order Adjudication in California.
His Notable Federal Cases Include: Citizens for Free Speech v. Santa Clara Cnty, USDC-NDCA; Nordyke v. King, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; Benanti v. Alvarado, USDC-NDCA; Madrid, et al., v. City of Los Angeles, et al., USDC-CDCA; Richards v. Prieto, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; (Consolidated with Peruta v. San Diego); Pena v. Lindley, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; Silvester v. Harris, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; Haynie v. Harris, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; Enos v. Lynch, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; Teixeira v. Alameda County, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; N.W. School of Safety v. Ferguson, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; United States v. Early (Criminal Jury Trial), USDC-EDCA.
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““Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.” ”