JURIST

MARCH 26, 2023

Under this rule, the movant has the burden of showing that there has been a “significant change in facts or law [that] warrants revision of the decree.” ” Here, the court ruled that the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Wade , does not impact the statute’s constitutionality.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

United States , the Supreme Court analyzed the Armed Career Criminal Act ’s force clause or elements clause. Under the ACCA, a person who has three violent felony convictions and is then convicted of possessing a firearm faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years. The case came to the court after Charles Borden Jr.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The statement could effectively knock out the misdemeanor gun possession count — the one count that could still be in play for the jury after the prosecution’s case on the more serious offense appeared to collapse in court. It is also hard to instruct a jury on an ambiguous statute. I have a legal education.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

Share Federal immigration law requires the deportation of noncitizens who are convicted of an aggravated felony, which includes offenses “relating to obstruction of justice.” By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in Pugin v. Such “redundancies are common in statutory drafting,” Kavanaugh wrote.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

side without going through a designated port of entry, that same action becomes a misdemeanor or even a felony , depending on the circumstances. . In 1969, the Supreme Court held in Shapiro v. When someone ‘jaywalks’ from the Mexican side of the border to the U.S. Decriminalizing jaywalking was a measure of equity.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At its conference yesterday, a double one, the Supreme Court ruled on a robust 164 matters. The court granted review in EpicentRx, Inc. Had the defendant’s conviction been of a misdemeanor instead of later reduced to a misdemeanor, lifetime registration would have been discretionary instead of mandatory.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Eastern District of California held that more analysis of the impacts climate change would have on a water transfer program for the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta was required under NEPA. In a letter to the court on March 2, the parties asked the court to defer further briefing on the U.S.-based

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