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Conrad Black on the Problems of the U.S. Justice and Prison System: Prisoners...
Canadian citizen Conrad Black, former head of Hollinger International, Inc., and once the third biggest newspaper magnate in the world, was charged in the Northern District of Illinois with diverting...
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Kentucky v. King, or The Police Know Exigent Circumstances When They Hear Them
Police officers set up a controlled buy of crack cocaine at an apartment complex in Kentucky and observed the deal take place. The officers then moved to intercept the suspect before he re-entered...
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Conrad Black’s Appeal of His Two Remaining...
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied the petition for certiorari by former international media mogul, Canadian citizen and British Lord, Conrad Moffat Black, as reported in the Washington Post. Mr....
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U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Warrantless GPS Surveillance and...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2011-2012 term begins on Monday. Among several issues prominent in the public eye at the moment–i.e. healthcare, immigration–the Court will hear argument on warrantless...
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SUPREME COURT HOLDS VEHICLE GPS TRACKING CONSTITUTES A SEARCH
We have mentioned the case of U.S. v. Jones which was pending before the United States Supreme Court, and the issue of whether placement of a gobal positioning satellite (GPS) device on a vehicle by...
View ArticleSouthern Union Co. v. United States — Must a Jury, and not the Judge, Find...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), held that the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution require that any fact which increases punishment...
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Julian Heicklen, 80 Year-Old Jury Nullification Advocate, Charged With Jury...
"No free man shall be captured, and or imprisoned, or disseised of his freehold, and or of his liberties, or of his free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed...
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Supreme Court Holds Stolen Valor Act Violates First Amendment
In the midst of handing down decisions on matters of wider import, such as healthcare and immigration, the U.S. Supreme Court last week struck down the Stolen Valor Act, a 2006 Federal statute which...
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The Commerce Clause and Federal Criminal Law: No “Generalized Federal Police...
The United States Supreme Court’s determination of the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, 26 U.S.C. § 5000A, in June in the...
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The Jones GPS Case Gives Rise to New Question Re: Cellphone Location Data
We have discussed the case of U.S. v. Jones, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held in February that the attaching of a global positioning satellite (GPS) device constituted a search. Well, the...
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Georgia Politicians and Activists Protest President Obama’s Federal Judicial...
Last Thursday, President Barack Obama nominated U.S. District Court Judge Julie E. Carnes to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. At the same time, the President nominated...
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