JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago. Garner addressed a fleeing unarmed suspects and found the state statute too broad: The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. ” T ennessee v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

The Supreme Court instructed the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to consider whether counsel’s inadequate performance had prejudiced Andrus – that is, whether but for counsel’s deficient performance, the mitigating evidence might have prompted at least one juror to opt for a sentence of life without parole rather than the death penalty.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The government argues that although enablement inquiry requires some factual findings, it also includes questions of law, and the Federal Circuit properly set aside a jury verdict favoring Amgen on legal grounds. Issues : (1) Whether the doctrine of Chevron U.S.A., Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. 14 and Oct. 28 conferences).

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2024

. “ President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. ” The conflict follows a Supreme Court ruling on January 22, wherein the court sided with the Biden administration in a dispute over a barrier along the southern border. .”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

People walk dangerous routes when the government eliminates or fails to provide legal avenues that are safe, permanent and predictable whether it’s across the street or across an international border. In 1969, the Supreme Court held in Shapiro v. When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S. Thompson that U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

McDonough , a case that the court already rescheduled seven times last term, and which involves the construction of a statute providing disability pay for members of the military. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, by a divided vote , deferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs construction of the statute under Chevron U.S.A.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. The majority responded to this latter point by saying that “[t]he dissent’s view is akin to saying that incurring a debt has legal consequences, but forgiving one does not.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2021

But if the earlier removal order is invalid on legal grounds, then how can the noncitizen use that fact to defend against the criminal re-entry prosecution? In 1991, he received a felony conviction for driving under the influence under California law and completed his sentence. Palomar-Santiago to answer this question.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2024

On Wednesday, Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court ruled that six of the charges should be dropped for a “lack of detail concerning an essential legal element,” an oversight the judge described as “fatal.” Kimbrough, 300 Ga.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The federal district court for the District of South Dakota temporarily enjoined enforcement of provisions of a riot boosting statute enacted in South Dakota in 2019 in response to anticipated protests of the Keystone XL pipeline. The Committee must determine if the petition is actionable before making findings or recommendations.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The court also denied motions to transfer the action to the District of Wyoming, where a challenge to the Waste Prevention Rule is pending. The California federal court said the substantive legal issues in the District of Wyoming case were distinct from the procedural issues at issue in this action. C20134963 (Ariz.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

There is also no compelling legal basis for the claim. ” ) In other words, the natural and probable consequences doctrine may apply to felony murder, but it is not properly applied to attempted murder. Indeed, such a claim would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent. ” I guess there is no doubt. ” .

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kruger left the solicitor general’s office in 2013 to serve as a deputy assistant attorney general in another section of the Department of Justice: the Office of Legal Counsel, which (among other things) provides legal advice to the president and other agencies within the executive branch. Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Maryland v.

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