Some day philosophers will probably look back at this decision and, with great mirth, debate who was sillier:
-- the avaricious prosecutors for attempting to prosecute a fisherman under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, a high-penalty statute that was undeniably “designed to protect investors and restore trust in the financial …
Matter of Black IPhone 4, 27 F.Supp.3d 74 (D.D.C. Mar. 11, 2014) (Magistrate Judge John Facciola)
U.S. v. Winn, No. 14-CR-30168 (S.D.Ill. Feb. 9, 2015) (District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel)
We have begun to see a growing trickle of cases in which the courts are rejecting sweeping applications by the Government …
In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S., 570 (2008), the Supreme Court’s landmark decision on the scope of the Second Amendment, it wrote in part:
“Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained …
Matter of Black IPhone 4, 27 F.Supp.3d 74 (D.D.C. Mar. 11, 2014) (Magistrate Judge John Facciola)
U.S. v. Winn, No. 14-CR-30168 (S.D.Ill. Feb. 9, 2015) (District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel)
We have begun to see a growing trickle of cases in which the courts are rejecting sweeping applications by the Government …
This case has become one of the few beacons of light in recent years involving the rights of immigrants caught up in America’s labyrinthine immigration system; and it involves the continuation of a series of important and powerful rulings by Judge Ponsor regarding the Government’s odious practice and policy of …
This is a rare and interesting sentencing decision in which a Federal judge actually granted the defendant a downward departure based on “sentencing factor manipulation” - a factor that the Court said occurs “when the government 'improperly enlarge[s] the scope or scale of [a] crime' to secure a longer sentence …
