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Beards and Brady (i.e., religious freedom and criminal procedure)

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After Blankenship had already paid a $250,000 fine and served one year of imprisonment for a misdemeanor (the jury acquitted him on all felony counts), the government disclosed 61 witness interview reports. Issues : (1) Whether spending-clause statutes ever give rise to privately enforceable rights under 42 U.S.C. Blankenship v.

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Supreme Court takes three cases and depublishes three opinions; dissenting votes in four review denials

At the Lectern

Maryland (1963) 373 U.S. Division Six concluded an erroneous felony-murder instruction was harmless. The unpublished opinion of the First District, Division One, affirmed the sustaining of a wardship petition for misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. Offley (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th 5th 588), in which no petition for review was filed.

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