JURIST

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday approved a formal investigation into crimes allegedly committed in the Philippines between November 1, 2011, and March 16, 2019, as part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs.”

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

A frequently invoked ground for Supreme Court review of a case is when it is “necessary. to settle an important question of law.” But offering the court an important legal issue is not alone enough to get a case heard. Sometimes, the court is just fine with the way the Court of Appeal has settled the issue.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 3, 2021

United States – which the Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday in the final argument of its 2020-21 term – packs so many swirling issues of great importance into an absurdly little case, it can hardly be believed. The national debate on historical racism in our criminal punishment system? Some courts did.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In 2020, the cancelation of parades and the reduction of travel has led to a very different legal profile of holiday mishaps and malfeasance. It is a Thanksgiving that perfectly captures 2020. _. The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. coli inflections.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

Share The Supreme Court is poised to decide yet another case involving one of the many federal statutes that govern the nation’s railroads and railworkers. The court will hear argument on Monday in LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company , a case about the scope of the Locomotive Inspection Act.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In a paper first published in the Fordham Law Review and posted online last month, Levin argued that the “widespread recognition” of the failure of aggressive drug enforcement “has ushered in a moment of great possibility for criminal justice reformers.”. My aim is not to suggest an apples-to-apples comparison between guns and drugs.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Gaulkin — We previously blogged about Pfizer’s copay assistance lawsuit, which sought to challenge HHS’s interpretation of the Federal health care program anti-kickback statute (AKS) and position that the company’s proposed copay assistance program would violate the AKS. Greber, 760 F.2d 2d 68, 71 (3d Cir.), denied, 474 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. Gonzalez filed a federal civil rights claim in Sept. In 2019, in Nieves v. Senior U.S. A divided U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 15, 2022

There is a bizarre political controversy out of Colorado that may raise some interesting defamation and criminal law questions. If untrue, this businessman could face a major defamation action, but Frisch has not indicated whether he will contest the allegation in court. Here is the criminal extortion statute: 18-3-207.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Share At the last Supreme Court oral argument of Justice Stephen Breyer’s career, the court stepped into a dispute over the state of Oklahoma’s criminal jurisdiction authority in Indian country. The case comes on the heels of the court’s monumental 2020 decision, McGirt v. federal enclaves).

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 7, 2023

For many weeks, experts on both the left and the right expressed doubts that Bragg could charge Trump with falsifying business records, a misdemeanor with a now-expired two-year statute of limitation. After all, when Bragg ran for office, he was no more specific; he merely promised to bag Trump on some criminal charge. percent to 14.5

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LexForti

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In a parallel vein, the Juvenile Justice Act was passed into law in order to shield minors from crimes like “sexual assault, sexual harassment, and pornography” and to provide for the institution of Special Courts to conduct special proceedings for crimes of such manner as well as connected concerns and occurrences.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Florida Southern District Court. He argues that the court is allowed to take “judicial notice” of the agreement in light of the fact that it has been used previously in court, including the voluntary dismissal of her battery claims against Epstein’s former attorney, Alan Dershowitz in a parallel case. May 11, 2020).

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Nadine Menendez allegedly knew the co-defendants before she married the senator in 2020. In March 2020, she allegedly texted an Egyptian official that “anytime you need anything you have my number and we will make everything happen.” Instead, they sought an embarrassing “ sweetheart deal ” that collapsed in court.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The move is relatively rare since the Younger abstention doctrine ordinarily shields state prosecutions from such interventions of federal courts. However, the court highlighted deep flaws in the prosecutorial case. Congress codified this rule in the Anti-Injunction Act, 28 U.S.C. It is not an absolute rule. 423, 432 (1982)).

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Share During a 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate, then-candidate Joe Biden pledged that, if elected, he would nominate a Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit who was on former President Donald Trump’s short list to fill a Supreme Court vacancy.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He added “The appointment is not consistent with the language of the statute that he’s relying on and can be rescinded, I think, by the next attorney general. Notably, the letter from the senators in 2020 raised one of the greatest concerns for Democrats about this investigation: any Special Counsel report.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 6, 2022

Adam Schiff who wanted to see more criminal charges out of the Biden Administration. Here is the column: In an initial court appearance following his arrest on Friday for contempt of Congress, former Trump adviser Peter Navarro stood before an obviously concerned federal magistrate.

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