SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

Share The Supreme Court is poised to decide yet another case involving one of the many federal statutes that govern the nation’s railroads and railworkers. The court will hear argument on Monday in LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company , a case about the scope of the Locomotive Inspection Act.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Criminal law We are now in the home stretch. Beginning in March 2013, Michael Johnson, a state prisoner in Illinois convicted of murder, was held in solitary confinement for over three years. A divided panel of the 6th Circuit affirmed, holding that application of nonmutual offensive collateral estopposel was permissible.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The company and the Oklahoma justices are right on the law. Public nuisance was originally addressed in England by criminal laws against such offenses as obstructing “the King’s highways.” It has limits, however—most notably the standard statute of limitations, which commonly range from one to four years. In Chicago v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2023

Meanwhile, states like New York , Illinois , Nevada , and California have extended their statute of limitations on a wide range of sex crimes that expand the window for survivors to take legal action against their attackers and receive justice. That problem also extends to the statute of limitations for sex offenders.

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