SCOTUSBlog
MAY 27, 2022
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. In Blankenship v.
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
OCTOBER 13, 2022
permits courts to defer to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ construction of a statute designed to benefit veterans, without first considering the pro-veteran canon of construction; and (2) whether Chevron should be overruled. Issues : (1) Whether the doctrine of Chevron U.S.A., Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. 28 and Oct.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
The Supreme Court has held that the federal government assumes a trust obligation to assert reserved water rights for Native tribes only when it “ expressly accepts those responsibilities by statute ,” by regulation, or by treaty with a tribe. Issues : (1) Whether the doctrine of Chevron U.S.A., Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
At the Lectern
APRIL 29, 2021
Maryland (1963) 373 U.S. Division Six concluded an erroneous felony-murder instruction was harmless. ” (Emphasis added.) A divided unpublished Fifth District opinion affirmed convictions for lewd acts on a minor and found harmless the superior court’s mistaken interpretation of a sentencing statute.
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.,
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.
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