On Wednesday August 4, 2020 Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco struck down California’s ban on same sex marriage in a 136 page opinioon, ruling that voter approved Proposition 8 violates the constitutional right of equal protection. Proposition 8 defines marriage as a union between a man…
June 29, 2010 RECENT DECISION Defendant involved in fraud scheme claims that investigators were overzealous in their search Mark Phillips was convicted of securities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, and access device fraud. In early 2003, the United States Postal Inspection Service began a fraud investigation of Phillips. The investigation…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section (CJS) *, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust* MCDONALD ET AL. v. CITY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ET AL. No. 08-1521 United States Supreme Court Decision: Decided: June 28, 2010 In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution protects an…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw June 21-25, 2010. U.S. Supreme Court, June 21, 2010 Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, No. 08–1498 In a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. section 2339B(a)(1), which prohibited knowingly providing material support or…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw June 21-25, 2010. U.S. Supreme Court, June 21, 2010 Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, No. 08–1498 In a constitutional challenge to 18 U.S.C. section 2339B(a)(1), which prohibited knowingly providing material support or…
Supreme Court Case Summaries: Professor Rory Little’s Perspective A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust These summaries are written by Professor Rory K. Little (littler@uchastings.edu), U.C. Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, who has long presented “Annual Review of the Supreme Court’s Term” program at the ABA’s…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section (CJS), http://www.abanet.org/crimjust* United States Supreme Court Decisions: Decided: June 24, 2010 1)Black v. United States No. 08-076 2)Skilling v. United States 3)Magwood v. Patterson Black v. United States No. 08-076 In a 9-0 decision today, the Supreme Court held that a criminal…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw June 14 – 18, 2010. U.S. Supreme Court, June 14, 2010 Dolan v. US, No. 09–367 In a prosecution for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, the Tenth Circuit’s affirmance of the…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw June 14 – 18, 2010. U.S. Supreme Court, June 17, 2010 Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Fla. Dept. of Env. Protection, Inc., No. 08–1151 In an action challenging the Florida Department…
Holder (Attorney General) v. Humanitarian Law Project et. al. 08-1498 A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust This summary has been created by Professor Rory K. Little (littler@uchastings.edu), U.C. Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, who has long presented “Annual Review of the Supreme Court’s Term” program…