Mealey's (November 11, 2022, 11:42 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied the National Rifle Association of America (NRA)’s petition for rehearing en banc seeking reconsideration of a Sept. 22 finding that it failed to plausibly assert that the former superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) unconstitutionally threatened or coerced an insurer or other entities to stifle its speech, quashing the NRA’s request to reinstate a federal court’s refusal to dismiss its free speech claims in its lawsuit arising from the investigation of three insurers that partnered with it to provide coverage for losses stemming from the use of guns....