The US Supreme Court Monday ruled in two separate cases that undocumented immigrants who are detained for more than six months are not entitled to a bond hearing. Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez was unanimous, with only Justice Breyer dissenting in part, while Garland v. Aleman Gonzalez was a 6-3 decision. The first case concerned Antonio Arteaga-Martinez, [...]
The US Supreme Court Monday denied certiorari in Andrus v. Texas; Justices Sotomayor, Breyer and Kagan dissented. Andrus was charged with capital murder for killing two individuals during a failed carjacking. After his conviction and sentence were affirmed by the state appellate courts, Andrus filed a habeas application and alleged that his trial counsel was [...]
The United States Supreme Court Monday issued its opinion in Denezpi v. United States, ruling in favor of the dual sovereignty doctrine. The dual sovereignty doctrine applies to the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment, allowing for two sovereign entities to charge one defendant under the same set of facts under two different laws and [...]
A group of 20 US senators released a bipartisan proposal Sunday to combat the nation’s epidemic of gun violence. The proposal, which includes 10 Republicans, 9 Democrats, and 1 independent, would expand access to mental health care nationwide and impose greater restrictions on the purchase of firearms. The official statement brands the plan as “a [...]
Police in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Saturday arrested 31 people who are believed to be members of Patriot Front, a white Nationalist militia group. These individuals were charged with conspiracy to riot because of their alleged plan to stage a riot near a Saturday LGBTQ pride event in Coeur d’Alene. Idaho law enforcement agencies held a [...]
A US federal judge Friday found that a Florida state court violated Courthouse News Services’ First Amendment right to “timely access court documents.” Courthouse News Services alleged that most civil complaints are unavailable to the public the day they are filed in Broward County Circuit Court. The news service argued that these delays in accessing court documents [...]
A settlement of USD 118 million was reached Friday in a gender discrimination class action against Google. The class includes some 15,500 female employees who claim that they were undercompensated and denied advancement on the basis of gender. The case, Ellis v. Google LLC, was initiated in 2017 and accounts for Google’s conduct since September [...]
A US federal judge Friday ordered the state of Louisiana to pay a USD 3.8 million settlement for legal fees to the Center for Reproductive Rights and law firms who challenged the state’s abortion restrictions on doctors in June Medical Services LLC et al v. Courtney Phillips. In June Medical Services, the plaintiffs challenged seven Louisiana abortion restrictions that [...]
Agricultural organizations Friday filed a brief asking the US Supreme Court to strike down California’s Proposition 12, which bans in-state sales of whole pork meat from pigs born to mothers who were kept in confined housing. Proposition 12’s confined pig housing standard is a pig “that was housed with 24 square feet of space and in [...]
The Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the DC Bar Friday announced ethics charges against former US President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani has already been temporarily suspended from the DC Bar and permanently suspended from the New York Bar. The charges stem from Giuliani’s repeated claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent, specifically focusing on [...]
