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Punch and Jurists: August 11, 2014

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Volume 21, Number 10

In this issue:

  1. U.S. v. Petri, No. 11-30337 (9th Cir.) (731 F.3d 833) (April 12, 2013) (Judge Richard C. Tallman) (p None)
  2. U.S. v. Castro-Verdugo, No. 13-50386 (9th Cir.) (750 F.3d 1065) (May 6, 2014) (Judge Susan P. Graber) (p None)
  3. Palmer v. District of Columbia, No. 1:09-CV-1482 (D.D.C.) (59 F.Supp.3d 173) (July 24, 2014) (Judge Frederick J. Jr. Scullin) (p None)
  4. U.S. v. Grigsby, No. 13-3146 (10th Cir.) (749 F.3d 908) (April 15, 2014) (Judge Bobby R. Baldock) (p None)
  5. Wollschlaeger v. Gov. of the State of Florida, No. 12-14009 (11th Cir.) ( F.3d ) (July 25, 2014) (Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat) (p None)

U.S. v. Petri, No. 11-30337 (9th Cir.) (731 F.3d 833) (April 12, 2013) (Judge Richard C. Tallman)

In its opening paragraph, the Court framed the issue before it as follows: “A full decade after an amendment to Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, we are asked for the first time to determine whether the amendment represented a vast expansion of the district court's fact-finding ...

U.S. v. Castro-Verdugo, No. 13-50386 (9th Cir.) (750 F.3d 1065) (May 6, 2014) (Judge Susan P. Graber)

Palmer v. District of Columbia, No. 1:09-CV-1482 (D.D.C.) (59 F.Supp.3d 173) (July 24, 2014) (Judge Frederick J. Jr. Scullin)

U.S. v. Grigsby, No. 13-3146 (10th Cir.) (749 F.3d 908) (April 15, 2014) (Judge Bobby R. Baldock)

Here the Court wrote in part:

"In its December 2012 report, the Sentencing Commission observed that "[s]entencing in federal production cases has been less controversial than in non-production cases," perhaps because of the relatively fewer number of reported cases addressing § 2G2.1. Nonetheless, Defendant may be correct when he says ...

Wollschlaeger v. Gov. of the State of Florida, No. 12-14009 (11th Cir.) ( F.3d ) (July 25, 2014) (Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat)

In 2011, the Florida legislature rammed through a highly-controversial NRA-sponsored law known as the Firearms Owners’ Privacy Act (“FOPA”) which, among other things, contained four provisions which mandated that licensed health care practitioners and facilities in Florida:

1. “may not intentionally enter any disclosed information concerning firearm ownership into the ...