Paralegal Mentor

MAY 15, 2014

Cooley Law School. We discuss the Innocence Project and the Post Conviction DNA Testing Statutes that opened the door for exoneration of the innocent around the country. In 2006, Professor Mitchell received the Justice For All award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan for her Innocence Project work.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Abbott involves a long-running series of multi-district litigation cases arising from du Pont’s government-permitted releases of chemicals from one of its plants; because the claims of harm from exposure were varied, the cases proceeded through multidistrict litigation rather than as part of a class action. relisted after the Sept.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 23, 2021

This incident could well prove a violation of a statute or regulation making the act “negligent per se.” The crew could sue for a reckless act on the set under these rules though members could face serious pre-trial litigation under the elements to these rules. They could also seek punitive damages in such a case.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The defendants moved to dismiss Mr. Elden’s complaint, arguing that it was barred by the applicable 10-year statute of limitations for such claims. The Ninth Circuit continued by recognizing that section 2255(b) contained the pertinent statute of limitation for such claims. Elden’s claims were timely.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

criminal law as “an extreme abuse,” China applies its criminal law extraterritorially on all the bases that the United States employs. Each of these bases for jurisdiction to prescribe is consistent with customary international law , and China has the right to extend its criminal law extraterritorially like this.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

The Lacey Act and other federal wildlife statutes could be charged for such conduct. The Lacey Act makes it a federal crime to break the wildlife laws of any state, tribe, or foreign country, in interstate commerce. Under the common law, there is strict liability for injuries caused by wild animals in your possession.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2021

Indeed, to use a litigation term, his opponent could be viewed as “opening the door” to such rebuttal by raising the theme of unity in the aftermath of the controversy when Sharma believes that she helped fuel of a campaign of disunity. General Construction Co. , 269 U.S. General Construction Co. , 269 U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 27, 2023

YouTube Screenshot There is an interesting ruling in the ongoing litigation of the case of Mark McCloskey. The department denied Guastello’s application for another liquor license based on the statute’s mandate that no person convicted of a liquor law violation could receive a liquor license. Stephenson (Mo.

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LexForti

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Before establishment of this statute, there was the absence of any special law which could be entirely designated for the offenses perpetrated against minors. Instead, the offenses were recorded under the Indian Penal Code, 1860, or the Criminal Procedure Code. Narrowly Construed Cases.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. The cases from injuries last year are just now being filed under the statute of limitations, but it has been another bumper crop of Thanksgiving torts. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. While there is a fair debate over the policy of relocation by states like Texas and Florida, the effort to use the criminal process as part of that political debate is … well, pathetic. .”

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 15, 2022

Nevertheless, then-FBI Director James Comey declared that “although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”. The Justice Department explained in an Aug. 16, 2016, letter to Sen.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2021

As a criminal defense attorney, I would view a case built on that line as not just challengeable but laughable. Even if the prosecutors could find a basis for establishing intent, they would still be pushing fraud statutes beyond an intelligible limits without more direct evidence of intent. McNally, 483 U.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2024

During more than two-and-a-half hours of oral argument, some of the court’s conservative justices expressed concern about the prospect that, if former presidents do not have immunity, federal criminal laws could be used to target political opponents. However, the justices left open the prospect that Trump’s trial in Washington, D.C.,

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Professors of Second Amendment law and the Bay Colony Weapons Collectors argue that the founders deliberately broadened English gun rights, which, The Firearms Policy Coalition at George Mason University writes, already provided for the right to carry a weapon in public for self-defense. Self-Defense.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Kruger left WilmerHale for the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught a class in transnational litigation as a visiting assistant professor. That interpretation, Kruger reasoned, is more consistent with both the text of the statute and the California legislature’s intent in enacting the law.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Moreover, Hunter has tried a wide array of approaches to these allegations of influence peddling, from a plea for sympathy to threats of litigation. Thus far, he has received every break from federal prosecutors, from expired statutes of limitations to reported tip-offs on investigators’ interviews. That may now change.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2020

From bribery statutes to constitutional provisions, legal experts routinely and unfailingly conclude that Trump or his family can be prosecuted or impeached for an endless array of misdeeds. Tribe insists the clarity and coherence comes in a later provision referring to how a president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Now Bragg is bringing a case that has taken years to develop and millions of dollars in litigation costs for all parties. That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations. However, two prosecutors, Carey R.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

COUNT FOUR (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. COUNT FIVE (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. On the existing evidence, they will likely fail on appeal, even if they survive the trial level litigation. COUNT TWO (Aiding and Abetting Assault and Battery). Code § 22-1322 – Incitement to Riot).

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

There are a variety of challenges expected from the Trump team, including arguing that the government misused the civil statute of the Presidential Records Act to launch a criminal prosecution. Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the president.” The Trump team is likely to litigate that and other questions.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 4, 2020

All of those columns and speeches contorting the language of the obstruction statute would come back to haunt the Democrats. He must also find the appointment in the public interest.

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