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Ghost guns, six-person juries, and discretionary visa decisions

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That brings us to our next issue, raised by a large group of Florida criminal cases that the court has had kicking around since November. All raise the same question: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when a criminal defendant is charged with a felony. Amina Bouarfa, a U.S.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

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It is a curious call for a governor to make after he ran ads in Florida calling on people to “join us in California.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Gavin Newsom (D., for kidnapping charges against Gov.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. In re: Border Infrastructure Environmental Litigation , No. and non-U.S. 17cv1215, 17cv1873, 17cv1911 (S.D.

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