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…
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Findlaw Case Summaries: Criminal Law and Procedure – June 21-25, 2010
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…
Findlaw Case Summaries: Constitutional Law – June 21-25, 2010
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…
ABA: U.S. Supreme Court Summaries – Mail Fraud and “Honest Services” – Three Cases
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…
New York County District Attorney: New Policy Regarding Prosecution of Business Entities and Organizations
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., has announced the District Attorney’s Office’s (DANY) new policy on the prosecution of businesses and organizations. Below are links to the DANY Press Release announcing the new policy and the May 27, 2010 DANY memorandum which contains the actual policy http://www.manhattanda.org/whatsnew/press/2010-06-01d.shtml Press Release…
ABA Case Updates: U.S. Supreme Court Cases Related to Criminal Justice Decided June 24, 2010
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…
Findlaw Case Summaries: Criminal Law and Procedure 37
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…
Findlaw Case Law Summaries: Constitutional Law. June 14 – 18, 2010.
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…
Can Some Forms of Grand Larceny Be Viewed as Hate Crimes?
Apparently prosecutors in Queens County New York think so. This month Queens prosecutors have charged two women with stealing more than $30,000 from three elderly men they had befriended separately. The women were charged with grand larceny as a hate crime. This strategy of treating some hate crimes as larcenous…
ABA Criminal Justice Section: U.S. Supreme Court Brief Prepared by Professor Rory Little
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…