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”…
On Saturday May 22, 2010, Democrat Andrew Cuomo the New York State Attorney General made an official announcement that he will seek the New York governor’s job once held by his father, Mario Cuomo. Below we include two links to documents released along with the announcement. The first link is…
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…
April, 2010 This Report of the Executive Director to the ABA Board of Governors* highlights issues related to ABA Membership, and Personnel, Also highlighted is an extensive list of Programs and Projects including those related to Bioethics and the Law, Center for Professional Responsibity, Criminal Justice, Family Law, Government Affairs,…
An abstract prepared for the Criminal Law Library Blog by Michael Chernicoff. Are language barriers playing a role in law enforcement? The Justice Department has begun a “routine audit” in New York to determine whether federal civil rights laws were being complied with in police dealing with non‐English speakers. Such reviews have been regular since 2002 when the Justice Department required recipients of grants to provide services to no‐English speakers CLICK HERE TO SEE COMPLETE ABSTRACT
An Abstract prepared for the Criminal Law Library Blog by Michael Chernicoff. The Adam Walsh Act [is] currently in place to protect children against abuse and child pornography and promote Internet safety is being used to classify criminals whose crimes were not sexual in nature as sex offenders. The Adam…
Selections from the Brennan Center Fair Courts E-lert May 21, 2010. Summarized news articles and editorials related to the independence of judges and the courts….: 1. A recent George Mason University study suggests that certain factors such as “support for diversity in the state’s leadership,” the “location of a judgeship,”…