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SCOTUSBlog
JULY 22, 2022
In three of the past four terms, the Supreme Court has rejected broad readings of white-collar criminal laws urged by the federal government. Those decisions concerned conduct ranging from wire and computer fraud to tax violations. A list of this week’s featured petitions is below: Momphard v. McCutchen v. United States.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2022
Even in the midst of a historic opioid crisis, and an intensely fractured Supreme Court term, the justices found common ground in longstanding presumptions of criminal law and the core principle of physician discretion. Breyer’s majority opinion reaches essentially the same result, but puts a much higher burden on the government.
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SCOTUSBlog
MAY 23, 2022
Even Justice Clarence Thomas led off the questioning by noting that Arizona’s position that the statute governs would render Martinez “pretty worthless.”. Share In Shinn v. In my oral argument recap , I discussed how several of the conservative justices seemed genuinely to struggle with that question.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
United States , which examines whether the federal government can bring criminal charges in federal court against a defendant previously found guilty in a Court of Indian Offenses for an offense stemming from the same act. Kimberly responded that there are two easy fixes, both of which, he asserted, respect tribal sovereignty.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Sylvia Gonzalez, a newly elected Texas city council member elected on an anti-corruption platform was arrested after her first meeting for “intentionally … conceal[ing] … a government record,” for allegedly taking a petition her supporters had presented to the mayor seeking the removal of a city manager. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 23, 2023
Both cases arise under the federal firearm statute, 18 U.S.C. § Enacted by Congress in 1994, Section 922(g)(8) criminalizes gun ownership by anyone subject to a domestic-violence restraining order. Cargill , the government the justices to weigh in. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. In both United States v.
JonathanTurley
MAY 12, 2021
” The language of the statute in my view is unconstitutional due to its sweeping criminalization of any “curse or abuse” that could “provoke a breach of the peace.” ” However, the appellate panel corrected noted that such laws are narrowly construed in light of controlling precedent. .”
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