Judge rejects the NRA's bid to block New York's lawsuit as not in 'good faith' â here's what happens next NY Attorney General Letitia James WBLS, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons A federal judge in Dallas said on May 11, 2021 that he was dismissing the National Rifle Association's bankruptcy case after finding that the gun group did not file it âin good faith." The NRA filed for bankruptcy on Jan. 15 as a means of relocating its charter from New York, where state Attorney General Letitia James is suing the NRA and four of its current and former officials, to Texas. Lindsey Simon, a bankruptcy scholar at the University of Georgia School of Law, explains what the repercussions might be for the gun group and its leaders.