JonathanTurley

JUNE 7, 2023

At issue was the federal “felon-in-possession” law—18 U.S.C. § The federal law makes it “unlawful for any person. However, when Range pleaded guilty in 1995, his conviction was classified as a Pennsylvania misdemeanor punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment. 922(g)(1), which bars ex-felons from possession of firearms.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 28, 2022

People jailed for committing a new crime while on parole or probation account for two-thirds of the total prison time imposed by federal and state jurisdictions, according to a Penn State law professor. Jacob Schuman argues in a forthcoming Virginia Law Review article. inflicting what amounts to a “double punishment,” Prof.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The FCC has already issued such an extension three times since the initial compliance deadline of May 26, 2015, as the NAB contends that there still is no workable technology that can perform the functions required by the rule (see our Broadcast Law Blog article here from the last extension 5 years ago).

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear an appeal from Derek Lee, a man convicted of second-degree murder who is challenging the state’s law requiring mandatory life prison sentences for those found guilty of the offense who did not intend to kill.

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The Crime Report

MAY 11, 2021

A criminal justice bill passed in Kansas comes with a slew of new laws and provisions including making sexual extortion a crime, enforcing stronger penalties for attempting to elude a police officer, and allowing spouses to be charged with sexual battery, Hays Post reports. Sexual extortion is illegal in other states including Pennsylvania.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

He also moonlighted as a law clerk for the same judges who presided over his cases. Overall, Petty simultaneously served as a prosecutor and law clerk at least 300 times. Our public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, represents her. Eventually he filed a lawsuit under the state’s Right to Know Law.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2022

The study by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School focused on the results of reforms introduced in Harris County, Texas, which was required by federal consent decree to change bail policy for misdemeanor charges five years ago. “We from 2015 to May 2022.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 3, 2022

There have been more than 250 new laws passed in that 18-month period alone — amazing state efforts to roll back the malign effects of the 30-year crime war,” the CCRC details. On a more broad spectrum, a pardon may be necessary to enable anyone to run for elected office, or simply secure a professional or business license.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

The court ruled that the Supreme Court had not formally overruled earlier case law supporting the theory that registration supports general jurisdiction. Although the railroad’s principal place of business is Virginia, it is registered to do business in Pennsylvania as a foreign corporation, and Mallory sued there. Next up is Kelly v.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Carol Menaker's New Book Looks at Jury's Error Back in the summer of 1976, when Carol Menaker reported to a Pennsylvania courthouse for her first jury-duty assignment, she never anticipated that the next three weeks would leave a decades-long impression on her. ” After the trial, Carol’s normal routine resumed.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Notably, Pennsylvania is a state that makes even the encouragement of suicide a crime under 18 U.S.C. –A person who intentionally aids or solicits another to commit suicide is guilty of a felony of the second degree if his conduct causes such suicide or an attempted suicide, and otherwise of a misdemeanor of the second degree.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 29, 2021

where the Second District, Division Five, Court of Appeal, in a published opinion , affirmed almost $170,000 in attorneys fees after a jury awarded less than $22,000 for a violation of the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act (commonly known as the “lemon law”) in the sale of a used car. HNL Automotive Inc. Offley (2020) 48 Cal.App.5th

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At the Lectern

MARCH 11, 2022

” The opinion also mentioned the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Covid Coverage Litigation Tracker website. It noted that the issue has been extensively litigated in the federal courts and in other states, and said its holding was consistent with “[t]he overwhelming majority of federal district court cases.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2024

Paxton , the justices will weigh in on a challenge to a Texas law that requires any website that publishes content one-third or more of which is “harmful to minors” to verify the age of each of its users before providing access. The challengers contend that the law imposes a burden on adults’ access to that content, but the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The failure to comply with these requirements is a felony under Florida law. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, which held that registered sex-offenders in Pennsylvania are entitled to seek habeas relief. In 2017, Clements went to federal court, seeking to challenge the constitutionality of his conviction. Clements v.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

The notorious abilities of Capone and these other crime kingpins to corrupt people and neutralize the forces of law pale in comparison to the former president. in the 1940s, the Trump Organization engaged in a variety of non-traditional illegal schemes around the inheritance laws of taxation that in my judgment constitute racketeering.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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