U.S. v. O’Rourke, 470 F.Supp.2d 1049 (D.Ariz. Jan. 17, 2007) (Judge Campbell)
U.S. v. Knellinger, 471 F.Supp.2d 640 (E.D.Va. Jan. 25, 2007) (Judge Payne)

18 U.S.C. § 3509(m) - Generally

With great fanfare, on July 27, 2006, President Bush signed into law the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act …

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled, by an 8 to 1 vote, that the police did not act unconstitutionally when they try to stop a suspect fleeing at high speed by ramming the suspect's car from the rear, forcing it to crash, and rendering the driver, Victor Harris, a …

U.S. v. O’Rourke, 470 F.Supp.2d 1049 (D.Ariz. Jan. 17, 2007) (Judge Campbell)
U.S. v. Knellinger, 471 F.Supp.2d 640 (E.D.Va. Jan. 25, 2007) (Judge Payne)

18 U.S.C. § 3509(m) - Generally

With great fanfare, on July 27, 2006, President Bush signed into law the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act …

Here the court upheld a mentally ill man's three-strikes sentence of 25 years to life Wednesday for shoplifting two bottles of liquor from a Southern California market, a sentence that a dissenting judge called 'barbarous. The ruling consists of a three-page majority opinion and a sixteen-page dissenting opinion.

In this decision, a panel from the Seventh Circuit held that requiring a state prisoner to be inoculated against hepatitis is not cruel and unusual punishment, but exposing the prisoner to cigarette smoke may be.
"[T]he Constitution is not violated by a prison's forcing a prisoner who is assigned to …