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RICO injury, federal jurisdiction, and giving veterans the benefit of the doubt

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One of those four involves an issue on which the court already is considering 11 other relisted cases: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments require the use of a 12-person jury to try defendants accused of felonies, rather than the six-person jury Florida affords for many such offenses. The district court refused, but the U.S.

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With The Onion’s support, satirist asks court to revive lawsuit against police who arrested him

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After obtaining a warrant to investigate the owner of the page, police arrested Novak under an Ohio law that makes it a felony to “disrupt, interrupt, or impair” police operations. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit erred in refusing to extend the holding of BFP v. Novak was acquitted at trial. Issue : Whether the U.S.

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