In this case, a divided panel from the Ninth Circuit held, for the very first time, that a widespread and sweeping investigation into online child pornography crimes in the State of Washington, carried out by a special agent of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) from his offices in Georgia, ...

In an era when some 96% of Federal criminal cases are resolved by guilty pleas rather than trials, the presentence report (“PSR”) has taken on outsized importance and, in many ways, has become one of the most important documents in the travels of any defendant through the criminal justice system. ...

This is another of the growing number of cases challenging the Government’s No-Fly List. (See, e.g, Ibrahim v. Dept. of Homeland Security, 669 F.3d 983 (9th Cir. Feb. 8, 2012) (P&J, 04/30/2012); Latif v. Holder, 686 F.3d 1122 (9th Cir. July 26, 2012) (“Latif I”) (P&J, 08/06/12); and Latif v. ...

This is an interesting case of first impression interpreting a suddenly trendy new criminal statute - namely 18 U.S.C. § 39A(a). That statute was enacted into law on Feb. 14, 2012 as part of the huge “FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012,” one of those giant, last-minute appropriations bills ...