JURIST
APRIL 9, 2024
This law was part of the Howell Code , a comprehensive set of laws enacted by the territory’s First Legislative Assembly, encompassing procedural regulations and establishing criminal laws ranging from bigamy to duels to mayhem. Though Planned Parenthood initially lost, the case was revived after the passage of Roe v.
Broadcast Law Blog
MARCH 21, 2017
The Georgia Supreme Court this week issued a decision holding that the streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings by iHeart Media does not violate the state’s criminal statutes against the “transfer” of recorded sounds without the permission of the owner of the master recording.
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JonathanTurley
JANUARY 22, 2024
For years, we have been following the bizarre murder-for-hire case involving the fatal shooting of Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel. Adelson and Markel married in 2006 when she was a third-year law student at the University of Miami and he was a criminal law professor at FSU.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 16, 2021
As recounted earlier , in 2008, Tarahrick Terry, then in his early 20s, was arrested in Florida for carrying just under 4 grams of crack cocaine. The crack-cocaine disparity had largely come to symbolize an ineffective and counter-productive war on drugs and a racist criminal law system. He was charged under 21 U.S.C. §
The Crime Report
MAY 16, 2023
Although these justifications are often framed as “common sense,” they ignore the fact that both civil and criminal laws already protect such places. The framing of the issue that [cisgender] women’s safety and trans rights are mutually exclusive advances a false narrative for two big reasons.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 3, 2021
The Article I Appropriations Clause prohibits any Executive Branch official from disbursing funds except as provided by an act of Congress, and no statute authorizes this giveaway of the public’s money,” Larkin Jr. Reviving the practice would violate the Article I Appropriations Clause and a statute known as the McDade Amendment, Larkin Jr.
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.
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