JURIST

JUNE 27, 2023

Three Virginia citizens disqualified from voting due to felony convictions joined a nonprofit organization to file a lawsuit Monday in federal court against Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and several state elections officials. The action challenges the felony disenfranchisement provision of the Virginia Constitution.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In recent years, the Supreme Court has expressed misgivings about white-collar prosecutions under broadly worded statutes. Judge Gregg Costa, joined by six other judges, wrote that “[t]he Supreme Court’s message is unmistakable: Courts should not assign federal criminal statutes a ‘breathtaking scope’ when a narrower reading is reasonable.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

(The Georgia House responded by passing a bill providing that anyone seeking to enforce Chisholm would be “guilty of a felony and shall suffer death, without benefit of clergy, by being hanged.”). Similarly, Katz and PennEast include detailed histories of English and early American law on bankruptcy or eminent domain.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Fitisemanu and the Tulis argue that the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, embraced the founding-era common-law understanding of birthright citizenship. Louisiana , 21-993. Issue : Whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when the defendant is charged with a felony.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has deviated from that by holding that enablement is a question of law that courts review without deference. Louisiana , 21-993. Amgen argues that the Supreme Court has held that whether a patent satisfies the “enablement” requirement is a jury question, and argues that the U.S. 28 conference).

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

Texas that Texas and Louisiana do not have constitutional standing to sue the federal government over a 2021 Homeland Security Memorandum that focuses immigration enforcement actions on non-citizens who are suspected of terrorism, committed serious crimes or are caught at the border entering illegally.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

McDonough , a case that the court already rescheduled seven times last term, and which involves the construction of a statute providing disability pay for members of the military. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, by a divided vote , deferred to the Department of Veterans Affairs construction of the statute under Chevron U.S.A.,

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