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US military contractor CACI to face retrial over allegations of torture at Iraq prison

JURIST

A US federal judge ordered a retrial on Friday in a case involving allegations that Virginia-based military contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc. The lawsuit was filed in 2008 under the Alien Tort Statute , which allows foreign citizens to bring lawsuits in US federal courts for serious violations of international law.

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Compassionate release, election rules, and procedural puzzles

SCOTUSBlog

The companies had removed the suits to federal court under the federal-officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C. Judge Andrew Oldham dissented, warning that the majority had revived a discredited causal nexus test and disregarded Congresss 2011 expansion of the statutes scope. The full court then denied rehearing by a one-vote margin.

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Justices take up Native health care funding cases and a dispute over sentencing guide

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United States , the justices will return to a familiar statute: the Armed Career Criminal Act, which imposes an enhanced sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm if the defendant has three convictions “committed on occasions different from one another.” And in Erlinger v. The court designated six cases as bellwether cases.

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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

The Volokh Conspiracy

Allegation: In early COVID, an inmate at Virginia's Red Onion State Prison goes to the prison barber for a trim and a shave; the barber tells him to remove his mask for shave-related reasons; he does; and nearby guards later bring a disciplinary charge against him for removing his mask in violation of the prison's COVID policies. Answer: No.

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Government contractors’ defenses, election challenges, and intellectual disability in capital cases

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United States , involving the scope of a statute that gives judges discretion to reduce criminal sentences for extraordinary and compelling reasons. Government contractors defenses to torts The GEO Group, Inc. The Supreme Court is making good progress in sorting through the current relists. This week it disposed of four. In Hencely v.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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