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ICC approves formal investigation into Philippines ‘war on drugs’ 

JURIST

In July 2020, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet stated that the Human Rights Council should consider new accountability measures in the “war on drugs.” The panel noted that victims alleged crimes including murder, torture, imprisonment, sexual violence and enforced disappearance.

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Does a Crackdown on Right-Wing Domestic Terror Threaten Everyone’s Civil Liberties?

The Crime Report

Capitol, elected officials and terrorism experts revived previous calls for Congress to pass a domestic terrorism statute that would empower the federal government to investigate and pursue white supremacists and other domestic terrorists with the same tools it uses to go after international terrorism. but as individual criminal cases.

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Can the ‘War’ on Gun Violence Learn From the Mistakes of the War on Drugs?

The Crime Report

In a paper first published in the Fordham Law Review and posted online last month, Levin argued that the “widespread recognition” of the failure of aggressive drug enforcement “has ushered in a moment of great possibility for criminal justice reformers.”. My aim is not to suggest an apples-to-apples comparison between guns and drugs.

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Justices to decide what it means to “use” a locomotive

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court is poised to decide yet another case involving one of the many federal statutes that govern the nation’s railroads and railworkers. Union Pacific also emphasizes several ways in which LeDure’s broad reading would “break the statute.” The court will hear argument on Monday in LeDure v.

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Could the Road to an AKS Violation Be Paved with Good Intentions? Pfizer Asks SCOTUS

FDA Law Blog

Gaulkin — We previously blogged about Pfizer’s copay assistance lawsuit, which sought to challenge HHS’s interpretation of the Federal health care program anti-kickback statute (AKS) and position that the company’s proposed copay assistance program would violate the AKS. By Sophia R.

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The Supreme Court doesn’t decide all important issues

At the Lectern

The contested legality of a statute making a significant change to the state’s criminal law, that’s certainly “an important question of law.” Marquez (2020) 56 Cal.App.5th Lippert (2020) 53 Cal.App.5th Bucio (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th 5th 304, review denied ). Lippert ; People v.

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Colorado Candidate Accused of Yielding to Blackmail While on the Aspen City Council

JonathanTurley

There is a bizarre political controversy out of Colorado that may raise some interesting defamation and criminal law questions. What was so striking about this story is that the owner would seem to be incriminating himself in a potentially criminal act, if true. Here is the criminal extortion statute: 18-3-207.

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