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Elonis v. United States: Supreme Court to Consider Online Threats
Threats of causing actual harm to someone has never been considered protected speech under the First Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court will now review online threats made on Facebook and Twitter, in Elonis v. United States. The case involves a se...
Bond v. United States: Another Case of Constitutional Avoidance
The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped the most complex issues in Bond v. United States in yet another case of constitutional avoidance. Rather than address the limits of the federal government’s power to implement international treaties, the Court rul...
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Consider First Amendment Claims of NYT Reporter
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to come to the aid of New York Times reporter James Risen. He is facing jail time after refusing to comply with a subpoena seeking the identity of a source used for his book, “State of War.” The government main...
Fixed IQ Score Cannot be Sole Measure of Incapacity to be Executed
A divided Supreme Court has withdrawn some of the discretion it gave to the states to determine when an individual convicted of murder is too intellectually incapacitated to be executed. The five to four majority held that states cannot use a fixed I...
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Supreme Court Clarifies Applicability of First Step Act to Vacated Sentences
by DONALD SCARINCI on September 4, 2025
In Hewitt v. United States, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that the First ...
SCOTUS Rules E-Cigarette Retailers Can Challenge FDA Order in Fifth Circuit
by DONALD SCARINCI on
In FDA v. R. J. Reynolds Vapor Co., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that e-cigare...
Supreme Court Expands Judicial Review of Agency Actions
by DONALD SCARINCI on
In McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supre...
