District of Columbia Felony Statute 
JURIST
DECEMBER 15, 2021
The US District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday sentenced a North Carolina man to 28 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a federal felony charge regarding a threat he made against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The man, Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr.,
The Crime Report
JULY 27, 2021
Since 2006, when meth labs were appearing across rural communities, Alabama has made it a felony to expose a child to a chemically toxic environment by enforcing heavier penalties on people who make drugs around children, exposing them to the vapors that are emitted in the creation of crack and meth.
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The Crime Report
APRIL 14, 2022
However, in 2007, the Court upheld, in District of Columbia v Heller , statutes limiting the possession of firearms from being carried in “sensitive places,” such as schools. In this way, the revision allows the GFSZA to function like a sentencing enhancement for serious crimes,” Smotherman concluded.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 27, 2022
In district court, Georgia corrections admitted that its policy substantially burdened Smith’s religious exercise, but it argued that various safety and security concerns justified its refusal to allow beards of any greater length. Issues : (1) Whether spending-clause statutes ever give rise to privately enforceable rights under 42 U.S.C.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
JULY 6, 2017
The court said the statutory language authorized courts to grant stays and that EPA’s reading of the statute “would have the perverse result of empowering this court to act when the agency denies a stay but not when it chooses to grant one.” The lawsuit was filed in the federal district court for the District of Columbia.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 19, 2024
The solicitor general now seeks review , supported by the District of Columbia and 20 states , which have filed a friend-of-the-court brief. All raise the same question: whether the Sixth and 14th Amendments guarantee the right to a trial by a 12-person jury when a criminal defendant is charged with a felony.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 4, 2023
922(g)(8), a specific statute that does so, is constitutional under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.” In that opinion, the appellate court was dealing with the removal of guns from a person convicted of one count of felony mail fraud for defrauding Medicare in connection with therapeutic shoe inserts.
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