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Ghost guns, six-person juries, and discretionary visa decisions

SCOTUSBlog

The solicitor general now seeks review , supported by the District of Columbia and 20 states , which have filed a friend-of-the-court brief. All raise the same question: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when a criminal defendant is charged with a felony.

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Restrictions on gender-affirming medical care – and assault weapons

SCOTUSBlog

The panel said that, “[u]sing the tools of history and tradition to which the Supreme Court directed us in [ District of Columbia v. The panel said that, “[u]sing the tools of history and tradition to which the Supreme Court directed us in [ District of Columbia v. relisted after the May 16 conference) Avenatti v.

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Can We Bet on Trump Sticking Around for Prosecution?

The Crime Report

This bargain had apparently involved dropping two of three felonies, but had not included an agreement on the sentence. Donald Trump will be convicted on numerous felony charges. A District of Columbia jury, properly instructed, will return at least one guilty verdict, and Trump will face sentencing. The Georgia R.I.C.O

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International arbitration, McGirt retroactivity, and anti-discrimination laws

SCOTUSBlog

Issue : Whether the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act’s felony prohibitions on “dispensing” drugs reach the administering of drugs by practitioners, which has been left to state and local regulation for more than a century. Washington , in their “long conference” last week, and they have relisted it for Friday’s conference.). United States.

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Justices take up challenge to purported racial gerrymander in South Carolina’s congressional map

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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed. The state warned that the lower court’s decision in Smith’s case was a “headlong attack” on Supreme Court’s cases that has “foisted years of meritless litigation on Alabama.” On appeal, a divided panel of the U.S.

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Why Has Trump Not Been Charged With Criminal Incitement?

JonathanTurley

However, such crimes are notoriously difficult to litigate , as shown by the failed 2012 prosecution of former presidential candidate John Edwards. Others claimed Trump committed “felony bribery” by fundraising for Republican senators when he was about to be impeached.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. The lawsuit was filed in the federal district court for the District of Columbia.

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