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…
Retired New Jersey Appellate Division Judge Geoffrey Gaulkin released his report in State v. Henderson today June 21, 2010. . The New Jersey Supreme Court appointed judge Gaulkin in May 2009 to serve as special master and to hold hearings and issue a report “to test the validity of our…
NOTE: This posting includes Professor Little’s perspective on City of Ontario v. Quon, the cfase whch includes interesting discussion about whether public employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding text messages went on government owned equipment during working hours. A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust This…