Remove Court Remove Court Decisions Remove Court Rules Remove Florida
article thumbnail

US Supreme Court allows retrial of criminal defendant if tried in wrong district court

JURIST

The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the US Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar the prosecution from retrying a criminal defendant if it is determined that the original trial venue was improper. But the court held that “the mere burden of a second trial has never justified an exemption from the retrial rule.”

Court 197
article thumbnail

Using Photos on Your Website – Court Decision Highlights Problems with a Creative Commons License and Other Copyright Issues

Broadcast Law Blog

One example is a recent US District Court ruling on a motion for summary judgment of a copyright lawsuit brought by a photographer when his photos of Willie Nelson and Carlos Santana appeared on a news website to illustrate articles on the musicians. However, relying on the creative commons license can be perilous.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Business owners seek to reclaim cash seized in drug bust

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether that 30-day deadline bars owners from reclaiming property if they file with a missing signature. In Sanchez v.

article thumbnail

Justices consider civil rights tester’s right to sue

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral argument in the case of a civil rights tester who searches the internet to find hotels whose websites do not provide information about the accessibility of their facilities, as required under the Americans with Disabilities Act. But the U.S.

Court 110
article thumbnail

Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

Statute 103
article thumbnail

The rise of certiorari before judgment

SCOTUSBlog

Unlike the Harvard University case , in which the same petitioner, Students for Fair Admissions, is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a decision by the U.S. And from August 2004 through February 2019, the court did not grant a single petition for cert before judgment (in United States v. Research by Steve Vladeck.

article thumbnail

They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of