SCOTUSBlog
MAY 7, 2022
Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether defendants have standing to assert violations of an extradition treaty and whether the wire fraud statute applies extraterritorially to reach a defendant’s conduct committed only in Nigeria. Ojedokun v. Guzman Loera v.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 30, 2021
Roughly 30 states and the District of Columbia have statutes allowing for recovery for wrongful convictions and imprisonment. One question is whether Cosby could now sue for not just the prosecution but the incarceration in light of the ruling of the Supreme Court. Pennsylvania is not one of them (which is quite surprising).
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 23, 2023
Both cases arise under the federal firearm statute, 18 U.S.C. § Enacted by Congress in 1994, Section 922(g)(8) criminalizes gun ownership by anyone subject to a domestic-violence restraining order. Courts of Appeals for the 6th, 10th, and District of Columbia Circuits that rejected challenges to the bump-stock regulation.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 10, 2022
When Plaintiffs refused to stop chalking, Sergeant Wallace decided to issue a citation to each plaintiff for violation of Nevada’s graffiti statute, which criminalizes conduct that “places graffiti on or otherwise defaces the public or private property, real or personal, of another, without the permission of the owner.” .
JonathanTurley
APRIL 16, 2024
The case involves the interpretation of a federal statute prohibiting obstruction of congressional inquiries and investigations. District Judge Carl J. Nichols of the District of Columbia dismissed the 1512(c)2 charges. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in construing 18 U.S.C.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
But even if the definition were not clear, the 5th Circuit continued, bump stocks should be excluded from the definition of “machinegun” under the rule of lenity, a doctrine that instructs courts to apply ambiguous criminal laws in the way that is most favorable to defendants. The 6th Circuit ruled that the regulation is ambiguous.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 18, 2024
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule on Trump’s appeal. To the contrary, a bedrock principle of our constitutional order is that no person is above the law — including the President.” The laws under which Trump has been charged are intended to cover everyone, Smith writes.
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