U.S. v. Liou, 491 F.3d 277 (6th Cir. July 20, 2007) (Judge Moore)
U.S. v. Wilms, 495 F.3d 277 (6th Cir. July 23, 2007) (Judge Moore)

These two cases, both authored by Judge Karen Nelson Moore, are noted as the first two Circuit court decisions we have seen which have ...

U.S. v. Liou, 491 F.3d 334 (6th Cir. July 20, 2007) (Judge Moore)
U.S. v. Wilms, 495 F.3d 277 (6th Cir. July 23, 2007) (Judge Moore)

These two cases, both authored by Judge Karen Nelson Moore, are noted as the first two Circuit court decisions we have seen which have ...

This case is noted for its exceptionally detailed analysis of, and it strong rejection of, a series of broad constitutional challenges to the AEDPA, including claims that one provision of the law, namely 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), (a) violates the Suspension Clause because it limits the grounds for Federal habeas ...

This decision relates to the Government’s long and highly publicized efforts to prosecute a number of the former partners and employees of KPMG, the giant accounting firm, in what has been labeled the largest tax shelter fraud case ever brought. P&J has followed and reported on much of the past ...

In the first appeals court ruling on the Bush Administration's controversial electronic spying program, known as the Terrorist Surveillance Program (“TSP”), a divided panel from the Sixth Circuit vacated Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s landmark ruling reported at ACLU v. National Security Agency, 438 F.Supp.2d 754 (E.D.Mich. Aug. 17, 2006) (P&J, ...

In a significant setback to the Bush Administration’s policies regarding the detention of alleged terrorists at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the D.C. Circuit has ruled that it will engage in a broad review of the Government’s evidence as it decides whether to uphold the military’s decisions regarding ...

In a prior ruling reported at U.S. v. Jacobo Castillo, 464 F.3d 988 (9th Cir. June 7, 2006), a panel from the Ninth Circuit held that where defendant unconditionally pleads guilty to violating 18 U.S.C.S. § 922(g)(5), the court of appeals lacks jurisdiction to hear his appeal of pretrial issues ...

In this case, the Ninth Circuit became the first Circuit to hold that government surveillance of e-mail and Internet activity does not violate the Fourth Amendment’s "reasonable expectation of privacy" - principally because the Court made the questionable analogy that such surveillance is “constitutionally indistinguishable from the use of a ...