Felony Legal Statute Washington 
JURIST
DECEMBER 15, 2021
The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The trial followed an FBI investigation and prosecution by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Colombia.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2022
Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. Animal Legal Defense Fund.
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 30, 2022
Andrus argues that the Texas court “disregard[ed] this Court’s determinations and legal precedents to strain for a result that it prefers,” and in the process violated “vertical stare decisis,” the principle that lower courts must follow the Supreme Court’s decisions. Issue : Whether the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Felony drug distribution carried a maximum sentence of 30 years and a fine up to $500,000 when I practiced as a prosecutor in DC. Each lever inside the criminal legal system — policing, prosecution, jury, judge — creates an opportunity for racism and bias to infect the process. Let’s look at the federal “felon in possession” statute.
The Crime Report
MAY 4, 2022
A 2013 study that examined 413 civil and criminal cases brought forward after Roe found that Black women were “significantly more likely to be arrested, reported to state authorities by hospital staff, and subjected to felony charges,” according to VICE News.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JULY 6, 2017
The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.” A debtor would beg to differ.”). State of New Jersey v North Beach 1003, LLC , Nos. A-3393-15T4 et al.
Broadcast Law Blog
JANUARY 22, 2010
What has not been addressed are the potential legal issues that this "third party" money may pose for broadcasters during the course of political campaigns. In fact, the Communications Act forbids a station from censoring a candidate ad.
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