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Supreme Court to Clarify What Constitutes Identity Theft

Constitutional Law Reporter

The post Supreme Court to Clarify What Constitutes Identity Theft appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. A jury found Dubin guilty of one charge of healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Supreme Court granted certiorari on November 22, 2022.

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On the narrow road to challenge a federal conviction, when is a vehicle “inadequate”?

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Last year, the court restricted the ability of state prisoners to develop new evidence to support claims that their attorneys failed to investigate leads that could have shown they were factually innocent. 922(g) prohibits people with felony convictions from possessing a firearm. Here is the background: 18 U.S.C. §

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Locked and Loaded: Third Circuit Declares Federal Gun Law Unconstitutional Over Ex-Felon Rights

JonathanTurley

Rickey Kanter was convicted of one count of felony mail fraud for defrauding Medicare in connection with therapeutic shoe inserts. Attorney General United States If accepted, the case would present a question that I flagged during the confirmation hearings of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Here is the opinion: Range v.

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Appellate Court Upholds $25 Million Award Against Oberlin in Mob Action Against Family Grocery

JonathanTurley

Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. million payment in attorney fees. The jury in June 2019 awarded the Gibsons $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million.

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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

JonathanTurley

Rather than prosecuting Hunter Biden for a felony in lying on a federal gun form, it is sending him into a diversion program due to an addiction that he says he was able to break years ago. The Justice Department also appears to have latched on to the 7% solution.

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Doctors and families with transgender children seek injunction against Alabama bill criminalizing gender-affirming care to minors

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Two doctors joined two parents on behalf of their minor children to file a complaint Tuesday in federal court against the governor and the district attorneys of Alabama, Shelby County, and Jefferson County, to block Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (“VCCPA”) from going into effect on May 8, 2022.

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

JonathanTurley

California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.)

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