U.S. Sentencing Guidelines
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Crime, Prisons, Sentencing Law
Criminally Yours: The Prisoners Are Coming
Let's hope the follow-through on the sentence reductions will be as good as the build-up to it. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.07.15
* Dewey know what Justice Robert Stolz will do now that the jury has declared itself deadlocked on most charges? Tune in later today. [American Lawyer]
* A case brought by law student turned privacy activist Max Schrems has triggered a European court ruling that Facebook won’t “like.” [How Appealing]
* King & Spalding associate Ethan Davis talks about how he prepared for his argument yesterday before the U.S. Supreme Court. [National Law Journal]
* Thanks to sentencing reform, the Justice Department will release about 6,000 inmates from prison starting later this month. [New York Times]
* Speaking of the DOJ, BP will settle Deepwater Horizon oil spill claims with the feds for a whopping $20 billion. [ABA Journal]
* Elsewhere in news of embattled companies, Volkswagen is turning to Mayer Brown for help in dealing with the emissions scandal that stinks to high heaven. [American Lawyer]
* 50 Cent’s malpractice suit against his ex-lawyers seeks 7.5 billion cents. [Law360]
* When legal recruiters sue each other, things can get ugly — fast. [American Lawyer]
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Constitutional Law, Crime, Elena Kagan, SCOTUS, Sentencing Law, Supreme Court
Does the Ex Post Facto Clause Apply To Suggestions?
We're still waiting on an affirmative action ruling, but yesterday the Supreme Court handed down an interesting decision on the Ex Post Facto Clause and the federal sentencing guidelines.
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Crime, Federal Judges, SCOTUS, Sentencing Law, Supreme Court
Today at the Supreme Court: Moving The Starting Point
What happened at the U.S. Supreme Court today? Our SCOTUS correspondent, Matt Kaiser, offers an eyewitness report.