SCOTUSBlog
MAY 23, 2022
Share Two men on Arizona’s death row are not entitled to present new evidence in federal court to support their arguments that their trial lawyers bungled their cases, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 6-3 decision. In an opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court sided with Arizona. “[O]nly
JURIST
JUNE 8, 2023
United States that in order to constitute aggravated identity theft, the use of a person’s identity must be at the “crux” of what makes the conduct criminal, reversing a lower court decision. The opinion provides analogies including “a lawyer who rounds up her hours from 2.9
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JURIST
APRIL 24, 2021
United States the Court held that in order to convict someone under the statute, the government must prove both that a defendant knew he possessed a firearm and that he knew he belonged to a category of persons prohibited from possessing firearms. Decisions in both cases should come this summer. Two years ago in Rehaif v.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Share On Wednesday, the court heard oral argument in Shinn v. Ramirez and Jones , two death penalty cases that will determine whether prisoners may develop new evidence to support claims that their lawyers were constitutionally ineffective at trial. But a 2012 Supreme Court decision, Martinez v.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 17, 2023
There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. When I imagine a foreign lawyer trying to explain this system to a foreign client, my heart fills with pity. Do state courts enforce these clauses at the same rate as federal courts?
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 1, 2023
The “challenge” in understanding the statute, Gorsuch pointed out, is that “there is no clear referent in § 11(a) telling us what ‘such security’ means.” For one thing, the statute imposes liability for false statements or misleading omissions in ‘ the registration statement.’” – rather than simply “a” or “any” registration statement.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. They hoped the Supreme Court would strike down the death penalty because of its demonstrated racial discrimination and other inequities. The Furman Framework. The ruling was narrow in scope.
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