The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
This statute permits a defendant’s attorney to enter into plea negotiations with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to determine if a mutually agreed upon guilty plea contract can be reached. The appeals court pointed out that the “guardrails” of this statute “are designed to keep the district court within the bounds of the sentencing statute.”
Constitutional Law Reporter
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit’s “right to control” theory of fraud — which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on a person’s economic decision as a species of property fraud — states a valid basis for liability under the federal wire fraud statute.”. United States v. Please check back for updates.
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SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 13, 2022
The Department of Health and Human Services issued the rule, which applies to more than 10 million workers, in November, but two federal district courts – in Missouri and Louisiana – put the rule on hold in roughly half the states. Such a mandate, the court wrote, “fits neatly within” the power given to HHS by Congress.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 6, 2022
Therefore, she reasons, the mandate is necessary to protect those employees from the possibility of contracting COVID-19 while they are at work – saving over 6,500 lives and preventing over a quarter-million employees from being hospitalized over a six-month period. Several challenges to the rule followed.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
But the court declined to invalidate the entire agency for this structural flaw, instead severing the for-cause provision from the rest of its authorizing statute. LLC involves how to determine the law to be applied under federal admiralty law in a maritime contract case. Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co.,
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
The New Jersey court also found no basis for Grable jurisdiction, rejecting the companies’ arguments that the City’s claims necessarily raised substantial and actually disputed issues of federal law such as First Amendment issues or issues addressed by federal environmental statutes. Louisiana v. Haaland , No. 20-cv-56 (D.D.C.).
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MARCH 6, 2018
Louisiana Federal Court Halted Work on Crude Oil Pipeline in Swamp Area. The federal district court for the Middle District of Louisiana enjoined work on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in the Atchafalaya Basin in Louisiana. Jacobson’s lawsuit asserted defamation, breach of contract, and promissory estoppel claims.
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