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SCOTUS Adopts Narrow Interpretation of Computer Fraud Act

Constitutional Law Reporter

Although Van Buren used his own, valid credentials to perform the search, his conduct violated a department policy against obtaining database information for non-law-enforcement purposes. On the Government’s reading, an employee who sends a personal e-mail or reads the news using a work computer has violated the CFAA.

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Locked and Loaded: Third Circuit Declares Federal Gun Law Unconstitutional Over Ex-Felon Rights

JonathanTurley

” The government conceded that four of the five favored Range, but Pratter found that he was still properly barred under the “cross-jurisdictional consensus” among other states. Rickey Kanter was convicted of one count of felony mail fraud for defrauding Medicare in connection with therapeutic shoe inserts.

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

JonathanTurley

The California provision states that kidnapping involves someone who “abducts or takes by force or fraud any person contrary to the law of the place where that act is committed, and brings, sends, or conveys that person within the limits of this state.” state once they are released by the federal government.

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Was Rittenhouse’s Possession of the AR-15 Unlawful?

JonathanTurley

At trial, however, prosecutor Thomas Binger at points seemed to be learning the governing law from Rittenhouse. Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly. For example, in 1547, the court was faced with a law making it a felony of steal “Horses, Geldings or Mares.”

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Supreme Court Takes Jack Daniels Trademark Case with Major Free Speech Implications

JonathanTurley

He was charged (and later acquitted) of a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. Accordingly, ComicMix governs the outcome here. The Onion filed a brilliant parody brief to support the parody claim. “A parody functions just like a mash-up. 302 at 20.)

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In habeas case, the liberal justices try to untangle a complex statute

SCOTUSBlog

United States that Section 922(g) requires the government to prove that the defendant knew he was prohibited from possessing a firearm. There is no provision for new rules of statutory interpretation.

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SCOTUS Rules Double Jeopardy Bans Retrial of Defendant Found Non-Guilty by Reason of Insanity

Constitutional Law Reporter

Facts of the Case After petitioner Damian McElrath killed his mother, the State of Georgia charged him with three crimes related to her death: malice murder, felony murder, and aggravated assault. The court vacated both the malice-murder and felony-murder verdicts pursuant to Georgia’s so-called repugnancy doctrine, and authorized retrial.

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