JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The United States Supreme Court Monday denied the appeal of Ramin Khorrami, an Arizona man who was convicted of fraud before an eight-member jury. This deviation from the standard 12-person jury was permitted by the 1970 US Supreme Court ruling in Williams v. Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh dissented to the court’s denial.

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2024

Australia’s Adelaide Magistrates Court found South Australian legislator Fraser Ellis guilty of four counts of deception on Monday for misuse of the accommodation allowance available to members of parliament. Ellis, formerly representing the Liberal Party, was investigated alongside several other MPs.

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JURIST

APRIL 23, 2021

The Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday dismissed a suit for compensation brought by South Korean women forced to work in “comfort stations”—brothels operated by the Japanese military before and during World War II—and families of the deceased victims. The 20 plaintiffs filed the suit in 2016 and sought about $2.7

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JURIST

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) filed an application before the Inter-Amercian Court of Human Rights against Paraguay for violation of the right to freedom of expression and judicial guarantees of Paraguayan journalist Aldo Zuccolillo Moscarda, according to a press release published on Monday.

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JURIST

MARCH 29, 2021

The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that keeping people in jail based solely on their inability to post bail is unconstitutional. The purpose of bail is to protect the public interest and to assure that those who are released from jail will return to court.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The Court on Friday concluded that email services are different from conventional telecommunication providers in Switzerland, and thus, should not be subject to the same kinds of data storage requirements. The company was also subjected to new data retention obligations for future surveillance purposes.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 20, 2024

In Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist , a court informs the irascible character of Mr. Bumble that it assumes a level of control of his wife’s conduct. Mr. Bumble responds that “if the law supposes that, the law is a ass – a idiot.” Village of Egg Harbor that a sidewalk is not a “pedestrian way.” In Regina v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 11, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that prior convictions for crimes of reckless violence aren’t sufficient to trigger additional years of imprisonment for felons convicted of gun possession, reports the Wall Street Journal. Lower courts rejected his argument, and he was sentenced under the career-criminal law.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2022

The Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) Tuesday ruled that national governments may not permit the “general and indiscriminate retention” of traffic and location data of electronic communications. The court’s ruling comes from a long procedural history.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

Share With a majority opinion that will be one of Justice Stephen Breyer’s last for the Supreme Court, the court on Monday ruled 9-0 that two alleged opioids “pill mill” doctors could not be convicted absent a jury finding that they subjectively believed they were wrongfully dispensing pills. The case, Ruan v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard argument on Tuesday in Denezpi v. United States , which examines whether the federal government can bring criminal charges in federal court against a defendant previously found guilty in a Court of Indian Offenses for an offense stemming from the same act.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The latest provision involves the possible criminal prosecution for possessing a gun on private property if owner has not approved such possession on the premises. It passed with the help of a special session in the resumption of this inexorable cycle and has already resulted in court losses. Bruen, 142 S. in Christian v.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial. We have seen other Democratic leaders use the criminal process in similarly reckless fashions. Inslee’s proposals raise the same questions that we discussed in relation to “stolen valor” laws.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The statement could effectively knock out the misdemeanor gun possession count — the one count that could still be in play for the jury after the prosecution’s case on the more serious offense appeared to collapse in court. Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 17, 2022

Supreme Court held that § 1782 discovery may be ordered only if the assembled “foreign or international tribunal” is a body which has been conferred governmental or intergovernmental authority. The Court ruled that since neither panel was conferred governmental authority, § 1782 discovery would be inappropriate in both instances.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And with that comes federal courts and travel. Criminal law is a big thing. What I’m hearing from a compliance perspective is this would be similar to a paralegal role where you’re constantly looking up what’s the court rule or how can we follow it to the letter? We sued pharmaceutical companies.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 6-1 on Friday that the mandatory minimum sentence for child luring is unconstitutional as it violates the right against cruel and unusual punishment under Section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom. On appeal, the Crown asked the Supreme Court to find it constitutional.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The Court sought to create “breathing space” for the media by articulating that standard that now applies to both public officials and public figures. Obviously, truth remains a defense.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 3, 2019

All in all our convention coverage spanned 15 episode with 26 participants including Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles T Canady, Florida Bar President-Elect Dori Foster-Morales, and return guests like Denis deVlaming and Kevin Johnson. The Florida Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Charles T. Canady (The Florida Supreme Court).

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 6, 2023

City of Fort Smith , the court heard a similar case. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that the verbal abuse was still protected speech. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that the verbal abuse was still protected speech. For example, in Thurairajah v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2021

Courts have upheld the right of citizens to insult police, which is an unfortunate aspect of policing. Thus, in 2015, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that police could not arrest a 17-year-old who called them “pigs.”

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 30, 2021

Since Foster v Driscoll [1929] 1 KB 470, common law courts have recognised that contracts made with the intention to commit a criminal offence in a foreign state are unenforceable, even if the contract contemplated an alternative mode or place of performance. Lyu Yan wanted to transfer money from China to Singapore.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 12, 2021

In a major but likely controversial victory for free speech, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the conviction of a retired Air Force Colonel for using a racial epithet at the shoe store on the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. 568, 572 (1942), the Court has sharply abridged the application that exception.

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MyCase

AUGUST 1, 2022

This is particularly helpful for law firms in practice areas with a high volume of client appointments and court appearances, such as criminal law and family law. . For example, you’re covered if you and your team members schedule dozens of client appointments and numerous court appearances every month.

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JURIST

AUGUST 7, 2024

Sara Sandford, Attorney and former Chair of the ILS, stated that “the American Bar Association stood up for the rule of law and protection of human rights” by adopting the resolution. Speaking to JURIST, Regina M.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 3, 2023

After all, mandatory application in EU courts is largely irrelevant if courts do not have jurisdiction in the first place. If the remaining alternative is to bring an action in a court outside the EU, the application of the CSDDD civil liability regime is not, however, guaranteed. Common to Arts. 22 (5) CSDDD.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The US Supreme Court Wednesday granted a request by death row inmate John Cruz for post conviction relief from his 2005 death sentence. In an opinion by Justice Sotomayor, the court ruled that the Arizona Supreme Court incorrectly held that the 2016 case Lynch v. South Carolina “did not apply” in Arizona.

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JURIST

APRIL 21, 2022

In a 6-3 decision, the US Supreme Court Thursday ruled that a state prisoner must satisfy the court precedents and federal law to receive habeas relief in Brown v. The decision impacts the standard federal courts use when deciding whether state trial courts’ constitutional errors are harmless.

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JURIST

APRIL 25, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to two cases, Reed v. In Reed , petitioner Rodney Reed asked the court to decide when “the statute of limitations begins to run for an action under 42 U.S.C. Mallory appealed to the Supreme Court for review. Goertz and Mallory v.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

On these facts, in 2016, two French NGOs and 11 former Syrian employees of Lafarge ’s Syrian subsidiary pressed criminal charges in French courts against the French mother company. By its decision of January 16, 2024, the French Cour de cassation (chambre criminelle) ruled partly in favour of the petitioner.

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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2024

Arizona’s Supreme Court found on Tuesday that a 159-year-old law banning abortion is enforceable following the US Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn abortion rights case Roe v Wade, sending a 52-year-old case back to trial court. The 2022 ruling Dobbs v. The case, Planned Parenthood v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. Gonzalez came to the Supreme Court, which agreed last fall to weigh in. In 2019, in Nieves v.

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JURIST

APRIL 30, 2024

The event attracted a diverse array of participants, including judges from the Supreme Court and High Courts, legal professionals, politicians, human rights activists, journalists, and ambassadors from various nations. ” Finally, in 1972, the Supreme Court concluded that Yahya Khan (r. Government of Punjab.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Ryan permitted defendants to raise such claims for the first time in federal court, on Monday the court ruled 6-3 that they cannot develop evidence to support those claims. Failure to do so “procedurally defaults” the claim, and a federal court cannot review it.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2022

Share In a term in which the justices are already slated to weigh in on disputes over public funding for private schools that teach religion , the role of spiritual advisers in the execution chamber , and the flying of a religious flag on a city flag pole , the Supreme Court on Friday added another religion case to its docket.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2021

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) showed Kelley as eligible to buy such firearms despite his 2012 conviction by a general court martial of domestic assault on his wife and child. The court ruled that. That should have made him ineligible.

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