Court Decisions Felony Government Statute 
JURIST
APRIL 24, 2021
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two cases involving one of its own precedents regarding felony firearms possession. The justices pushed Solicitor General Benjamin Snyder on what kinds of evidence an appellate court can use, and how far outside the trial court record they can go.
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. Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent.
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At the Lectern
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Duke back to the Court of Appeal for reconsideration in light of Senate Bill 775. SB 1437 was enacted in 2018 to limit criminal liability for felony murder or murder under the natural-and-probable-consequences doctrine. Two weeks ago, the court made a similar transfer order in the fully briefed People v. See here.) See here.).
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 15, 2021
922(g) , the federal statute barring people with prior felony convictions from possessing firearms, the government must prove that the defendant knew he was a felon at the time he possessed a firearm. ‘Felony status is simply not the kind of thing that one forgets.’”.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 28, 2021
Rollins challenges a Massachusetts law that makes it a felony to secretly record the speech of anyone other than a law enforcement officer, irrespective of motive. Two more petitions ask the court to weigh in on arbitration issues. Two petitions ask the justices to take up novel First Amendment issues. Project Veritas Action Fund v.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 31, 2024
And the court denied review to a group of 13 much-relisted cases that raised the question whether felony defendants have a constitutional right to a 12-person jury rather than just a six-person one. Justice Neil Gorsuch filed an opinion dissenting from the denial of cert , arguing that the court’s 1970 decision in Williams v.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JULY 6, 2017
Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. The Second Circuit said the Connecticut statutes authorizing the solicitations did not compel utilities to enter into contracts with specific bidders. filed June 13, 2017).
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