[a]ny person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading represe...
InBlakely v. Washington, the Supreme Court held that the imposition of a sentence enhancement above the State of Washington's Sentencing Reform Act's range, based solely on the factual findings of the sentencing judge, violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment rights.Blakely, 124 S. Ct. at 253...
来自 digital.library.unt.edu 喜欢 0 阅读量: 21 摘要: A press release from the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders of Boston announcing Vermont Supreme Court's ruling in same-sex marriage having equal protection as opposite-sex marriage. 年份: 1999 ...
The Supreme Court has instructed us that a federal court may review only "the original decision denying benefits." See Califano v. Sanders,430 U.S. 99, 108 (1977). Although the Secretary's refusal to reopen a benefits determination is, indeed, a "decision" under § 405(h), it is not...
defendant to suffer punishment for a criminal charge for which he or she was acquitted," id. at 851, has not been overturned in that circuit though it has been criticized elsewhere.1Nevertheless, there is here a conflict among the circuits which would seem worthy of Supreme Court resolution....
Conversely, Wilson argues for a categorical approach to a petitioner's reliance on the availability of § 212(c) relief, contending that the Supreme Court and Second Circuit both generally apply a categorical approach in retroactivity analyses. ...
The Supreme Court has in recent years interpreted some "criminal statutes to include broadly applicable scienter requirements, even where the statute by its terms does not contain them." United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc., --- U.S. ---, ---, 115 S. Ct. 464, 468, 130 L. Ed...
violated the rules of the Illinois Supreme Court, breached its contract with him, and abandoned him. Apparently, Jiricko believes that if his lawyer committed malpractice or breached its contract with him, then we should reverse the district court's order dismissing Count V. Of course, these is...
There is no basis for imposing supervisory liability upon the Estate under the circumstances revealed here. As the Supreme Court recently explained, the "deliberate indifference" standard does not apply in the prison context to the making and carrying out of decisions "involving the use of force ...
In addressing the question of the foreseeability of future regulation, the Supreme Court has focused on whether previous regulation was in the area of the future regulation. InAllied Structural Steel Co., the Court considered the constitutionality of a Minnesota pension regulation as applied to pre-...