To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw May 31 – June 4, 2010. U.S. Supreme Court, June 01, 2010 Levin v. Commerce Energy, Inc., No. 09–223 In an action by independent natural gas marketers (IMs) who offered to sell…
In an earlier posting on this blog we reported that on February 23, 2010 a divided Panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, New York Supreme Court ruled in People v. Correa (2010 NY Slip Op. 01533) that the 2004 merger of the criminal courts in the Bronx into a…
Berghuis v. Thompkins June 2, 2010 United States v. Carr A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust Introduction by ABA Criminal Justice Section: This summary has been created by Professor Rory K. Little , U.C. Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, who has long presented “Annual Review…
United States v. Marcus, No. 08-1341, 130 S.Ct. ___(may 24, 2010). 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”…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust Received: May 25, 2010. UNITED STATES v. O’BRIEN ET AL. No. 08–1569 In an opinion by Justice Kennedy, the United States Supreme Court ruled the fact that a firearm was a machinegun is an element to be proved to the jury…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw May 24, 2010. ANTITRUST & TRADE REGULATION, COMMERCIAL LAW, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, SPORTS LAW, TRADEMARK American Needle, Inc. v. Nat’l Football League, No. 08–661 In an antitrust action challenging the NFL’s grant to…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw May 17-21, 2010 U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, May 17, 2010 Coggeshall v. Massachusetts Bd. of Registration of Psychologists, No. 09-1111 In plaintiffs’ 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against the Massachusetts…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw May 17-21, 2010 ——————————————————————————– U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, May 17, 2010 Parsley v. US, No. 09-1690 District court’s denial of defendant’s motion under 28 U.S.C. section 2255 motion to vacate…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust Graham v Florida No. 08–7412. United States Supreme Court Decision: May 17, 2010 In a 5-4 opinion by Justice Kennedy, the United States Supreme Court ruled that sentencing juveniles to life without the possibility of parole for non-homicide cases is impermissible…
A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust United States v. Comstock (No. 08-1224) United States Supreme Court Decision: May 17, 2010 In United States v. Comstock (08-1224), the Court reversed and remanded the lower court’s decision ruling that federal officials can indefinitely hold inmates considered “sexually dangerous” after…