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The United States Sentencing Commission has scheduled a public hearing for Wednesday, July 19, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (EDT). The hearing will be held at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, One Columbus Circle, N.E., in the Commissioners' Conference Room of Suite 2-500 (…

he Justice Department’s watchdog said Tuesday that a “combination of negligence and misconduct” enabled financier Jeffrey Epstein to take his own life at a federal jail in New York City while he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges (…

This morning, a 7-2 divided Supreme Court decided Counterman v. Colorado, No. 22-138 (June 27, 2023), holding that the government must prove in true-threats cases that the defendant had some subjective understanding of his…

In state court news, the Supreme Court of Maryland rifles through the evidence and shoots down firearm experts' striking claims that they can link a certain bullet to a particular gun. Henceforth, such claims will…

On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court decided Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (5-4). The Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to license and recognize same-sex marriage.

The majority opinion by Justice Kennedy was joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and…

SCOTUS Rejects First Amendment Challenge to Inducing Illegal Immigration

This morning, in United States v. Hansen, No. 22-179 (June 23, 2023), a divided 7-to-2 Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment overbreadth…

This morning, a 6 to 3 divided Supreme Court issued a significant decision in Jones v. Hendrix, No. 21-857 (June 22, 2023), limiting the availability of habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 for federal prisoners.  …

Nusrat Choudhury was confirmed Thursday as a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, making history as the first Muslim woman and the first Bangladeshi…

Today, the United States Sentencing Commission published its notice of Proposed 2023-2024 priorities for the 2023-2024 Amendment cycle in the federal register, view notice…

Timothy Smith is an avid fisherman and software engineer who lives in Mobile, Alabama near the Gulf Coast.  He discovered that a private company named Strikezones, headquartered in the Northern District of Florida, was selling geographic coordinates of artificial reefs that individuals…