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New Wrinkle in Pre-1972 Sound Recording Cases – Georgia Supreme Court Holds that iHeart Streaming Does Not Violate State Criminal Statute

Broadcast Law Blog

The Georgia Supreme Court this week issued a decision holding that the streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings by iHeart Media does not violate the state’s criminal statutes against the “transfer” of recorded sounds without the permission of the owner of the master recording.

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Unanimous ruling on crack-cocaine disparity is heavy on text, light on history

SCOTUSBlog

As recounted earlier , in 2008, Tarahrick Terry, then in his early 20s, was arrested in Florida for carrying just under 4 grams of crack cocaine. The crack-cocaine disparity had largely come to symbolize an ineffective and counter-productive war on drugs and a racist criminal law system. He was charged under 21 U.S.C. §

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Grinch Grand Theft: FedEx Worker Charged with Dumping Christmas Gifts in the Woods

JonathanTurley

There is an interesting criminal case out of Florida in which FedEx driver Latavion Lewis was charged with grand theft, illegal dumping, and an organized scheme to defraud. FedEx received reports of packages strewn along roads and in the woods around Bonifay, Florida. ” Roughly44 packages were recovered as of December 21.

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The Markel Murder: Donna Adelson Arrested at Miami International Airport

JonathanTurley

For years, we have been following the bizarre murder-for-hire case involving the fatal shooting of Florida State University law professor Daniel Markel. Adelson and Markel married in 2006 when she was a third-year law student at the University of Miami and he was a criminal law professor at FSU.

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Justices take up bump stock dispute

SCOTUSBlog

But even if the definition were not clear, the 5th Circuit continued, bump stocks should be excluded from the definition of “machinegun” under the rule of lenity, a doctrine that instructs courts to apply ambiguous criminal laws in the way that is most favorable to defendants. The 6th Circuit ruled that the regulation is ambiguous.

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Arizona Supreme Court determines abortion law from 1864 is enforceable

JURIST

This law was part of the Howell Code , a comprehensive set of laws enacted by the territory’s First Legislative Assembly, encompassing procedural regulations and establishing criminal laws ranging from bigamy to duels to mayhem. Though Planned Parenthood initially lost, the case was revived after the passage of Roe v.

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A Surge of Anti-Trans Laws Ignore Criminology

The Crime Report

Although these justifications are often framed as “common sense,” they ignore the fact that both civil and criminal laws already protect such places. The framing of the issue that [cisgender] women’s safety and trans rights are mutually exclusive advances a false narrative for two big reasons.

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