JURIST

JUNE 9, 2021

Bitcoins “represent proceeds traceable to a computer intrusion and property involved in money laundering and may be seized pursuant to criminal and civil forfeiture statutes.” The Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack resulted in widespread network disruptions, causing gas shortages and panic buying across the US.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Georgia halted the death penalty across the country in response to a set of capital punishment cases. The decision forced federal and state governments to review their statutes to ensure that administration of the death penalty did not discriminate and was applied consistent to the Eight Amendment, prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Georgia that the Eighth Amendment forbids a death sentence for the rape of an adult woman, respondents argue that they could not, in fact, have been sentenced to death, and therefore the statute of limitations for their crimes. The court agreed with the government’s argument and upheld the convictions as timely.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 27, 2022

Muslim prisoner argues that Georgia corrections’ limit on beard lengths violates his religious exercise. Muslim prisoner argues that Georgia corrections’ limit on beard lengths violates his religious exercise. After Holt , Georgia corrections allowed all inmates to grow half-inch beards. In Smith v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 3, 2021

United States provides the court’s first serious look at one of the most important criminal statutes involving computer-related crime, the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s opinion for a majority 0f six firmly rejected the broad reading of that statute that the Department of Justice has pressed in recent years.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Wooden pleaded guilty to 10 counts of burglary in Georgia state court and served an eight-year sentence. The federal government charged Wooden with being a felon in possession of a firearm — a crime for which the maximum punishment is 10 years’ imprisonment. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit agreed with the government.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2022

1983 , the iconic civil rights statute permitting plaintiffs (including prisoners) to sue state officers for infringing constitutional rights. Georgia, by contrast, argues that Nance must bring the Eighth Amendment claim under the federal habeas statutes.

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MARCH 11, 2024

For both primary and secondary legal materials, many remain under the commercial lock and key of major publishers, or under dubious claims of copyright by government entities, or so disparately and poorly organized as to be effectively inaccessible. Georgia is not alone in asserting copyright over public law. Public.Resource.Org, Inc.

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Patently O

JUNE 16, 2023

The statute requires that it be located in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, or Arkansas. Simultaneously, the Community Outreach Office aims to provide a platform for dialogue, bridging the gap between citizens and the government.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in the case of a Georgia student who was stopped from handing out religious literature and speaking about his faith on the campus of his public college. solicitor general who argued on behalf of the federal government in support of the students.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 19, 2022

Garland means that noncitizens seeking certain forms of discretionary relief under immigration law could be left with no judicial review when the government denies such relief. First, the applicant must meet precise eligibility requirements under a federal statute. In interpreting a neighboring statute, 8 U.S.C. a green card).

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2021

Within minutes of the leaking of a call between Trump and Georgia election officials, the same experts were declaring yet another clear crime. Now, he is insisting that the call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is clearly a criminal act. Georgia is a one party consent state). McNally, 483 U.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2021

Louisiana filed suit in the US District Court for its Western District, leading a cohort comprising Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.

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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.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

When must state prisoners alleging unconstitutional execution methods use habeas corpus petitions, and when may they proceed under the more general civil rights statute, 42 U.S.C. Georgia wants the court to prohibit the Section 1983 litigation, but the state seemed to have a formidable skeptic: Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Georgia , the Supreme Court laid out four requirements for a court to consider before closing a courtroom to members of the public, including ensuring that the closure is no broader than necessary and making specific factual findings. Closing courtrooms over defendants’ objections. In Waller v. Williams v. United States. United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

Yellen addresses the Constitution’s allocation of taxing authority between the federal and state governments. McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of its compliance with Georgia’s registration statute for foreign corporations. New York v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

First, the applicant must meet precise eligibility requirements under the statute. citizen” when applying for a Georgia driver’s license. That statute is known as the jurisdictional bar. Like with many forms of discretionary relief, adjustment of status involves two steps. In 2008, Patel marked “U.S.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The forgiveness clause was designed by Congress to create a pathway for adjusting the status of those who entered the US without “inspection” if they could show they filed a visa petition or labor certification with the government on or before April 30, 2001, were physically present in the US and would pay a fine of $1,000.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to take an appeal by anti-abortion activists in a First Amendment dispute with Planned Parenthood, as well as a test of New Jersey’s “slogan statutes.” Other cases in which the justices denied review on Monday included: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products v. 6 attacks on the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In 2012, a jury in Georgia convicted and sentenced Rodney Young to death for killing the son of his estranged girlfriend, rejecting his claim that he was intellectually disabled. In Georgia, a defendant invoking Atkins v. Amwins Brokerage of Georgia, LLC. Intellectual disability and the death penalty. The case is Young v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

He stated that he mistakenly marked “yes” in response to a Georgia driver’s license application question “Are you a U.S. Patel and the federal government agree that the case involves a non-discretionary determination regarding Patel’s eligibility for adjustment of status. DHS found that he falsely represented himself to be a U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

District Judge Tanya Chutkan, originally scheduled for March 4 but now on hold, can go forward, but also whether the former president’s trials in Florida and Georgia can proceed. Trump is asserting “a novel and sweeping immunity from the federal criminal laws that govern all citizens’ conduct,” Smith writes. before U.S.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Five states and the federal government executed a total of 17 prisoners in 2020, with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) accounting for more than half (10) of the executions—reflecting a decision by the outgoing administration of President Donald Trump to accelerate death penalty cases.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

were going to use death as a punishment, the government had to take extraordinary steps to ensure that it was administered fairly. Some states, such as Louisiana and North Carolina, enacted mandatory death penalty statutes, eliminating discretion entirely from the death penalty system.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning added a maritime law case to its docket for the 2023-24 term and invited the federal government to submit briefs expressing its views in two more cases. The first case, Georgia-Pacific v. The justices granted review in Great Lakes Insurance SE v. International Paper Co.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 8, 2022

Share William Dale Wooden burglarized 10 units in a single storage facility, and pleaded guilty to 10 counts of burglary in Georgia state court. Gorsuch argued that historically, the rule of lenity has played an important constitutional role in protecting defendants from vague criminal statutes. The difference was not just semantic.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 9, 2022

Because USCIS was aware that Patel had previously checked a box on a Georgia driver’s license application falsely stating that he was a United States citizen, it denied Patel’s application for failure to satisfy the threshold requirement that the noncitizen be statutorily admissible for permanent residence. Our case is such a case.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2022

Georgia , the Supreme Court relied on this language to allow a suit against Georgia by an out-of-state creditor. 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.”).

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 30, 2022

Or to the question posed by many folks inside and outside of government following his inauguration address in 2017, captured in the headline of a Vanity Fair article: “ Is Donald Trump’s Insecurity a National Security Threat? ”. 6 investigations. It’s certainly not the outcome that I am hoping for. Gregg Barak. Gregg Barak , Ph.D. ,

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 29, 2021

Former Georgia police sergeant Nathan Van Buren used his patrol-car computer to access a law enforcement database to retrieve information about a particular license plate number in exchange for money. Largely relying on textual analysis, the majority rejected the Government’s arguments in favor of its narrow interpretation of the CFAA.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Enacted in 1948, the GCA extended to Indian country the general federal criminal laws that apply in places where the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction (i.e., Georgia (1832). federal enclaves). The question is whether the GCA therefore prohibits concurrent state criminal prosecutions.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Here is the column: Last week , some of us were struck by how Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis seemed to morph into the man she is prosecuting in Georgia. ” He argues that DOJ regulations instruct the attorney general to appoint a special counsel from outside the government, but Weiss was working as U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Wainwright , the court ultimately ruled in Gideon’s favor, holding that the Sixth Amendment guarantees a right to government-funded counsel for indigent criminal defendants. Georgia , in which the court revived the death penalty after a four-year de facto moratorium. In a watershed decision in Gideon v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2023

With additional criminal indictments coming to courts in Georgia, Washington, D.C., Trump’s lawyers and an attorney for the Justice Department countered that his responses were made as part of his job as president — which would effectively end Carroll’s case against him because of protection government employees have from defamation suits.”

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Realtor associations and rental property managers in Alabama and Georgia sued to enjoin the CDC’s moratorium. First, the Government was unlikely to succeed on the merits, given the four votes to vacate the stay in this Court and Justice Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The federal Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule on Tuesday, November 22, allowing plan fiduciaries to consider climate change and other environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) characteristics when they choose investments and exercise shareholder rights, reversing a Trump-era rule that sought to constrain this type of risk analysis.

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