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Three notable new pieces from <em>The Marshall Project</em>

By Douglas Berman
June 23, 2025

I likely should make even more of an effort to flag here the always great work done by the folks at The Marshall Project, and three new original pieces prompts me to do this quick round up.   All three…

Sentencing Law and Policy

SCOTUS grants cert to address whether prisoner can seek money damages under RLUIPA

By Douglas Berman
June 23, 2025

This morning’s Supreme Court orders list is quite short, but it is also sweet for one prisoner who is seeking damages from Louisiana prison official for a violation of his rights under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. …

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Simple Justice

When The Best Law School Paper Is Racist

By Scott Greenfield
June 23, 2025

The first two sentences of Richard Fausset’s article in the New York Times leaves nothing to the imagination.
Preston Damsky is a law student at the University of Florida. He is also a white nationalist and antisemite.
Remember the old…

AWATIF Legal Blog

Understanding the New Public Health Law in Dubai

By Paulos
June 23, 2025

Introduction
The government of Dubai enacted the new public health law, Dubai Law No. 5 of 2025, to promote public health in the emirate. The primary object of this law is public health and community well-being. The new health law…

Simple Justice

Did War Just Start Or Just End?

By Scott Greenfield
June 22, 2025

Not too long ago, many people believed the “predictions” of Nostradamus that the world would end in 2025, and that it would come from war in the middle east, where certain nations were bent on the destruction of the decadent…

Sentencing Law and Policy

"State Constitutional Limits on Nitrogen Hypoxia Executions"

By Douglas Berman
June 22, 2025

The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by William W. Berry III now available via SSRN.  Here is its abstract:

In January 2024, the state of Alabama executed Kenneth Smith with nitrogen gas.  One…

Sentencing Law and Policy

US Sentencing Commission publishes "2025 Amendments in Brief"

By Douglas Berman
June 22, 2025

The US Sentencing Commission has recently published on this USSC webpage five short new documents as part of its helpful “Amendment in Brief” series.  As explained on that page, “‘Amendments In Brief’ are short summaries, usually one to two pages,…

Sentencing Law and Policy

Checking in with police homicide data in big US cities at start of summer 2025

By Douglas Berman
June 21, 2025

In this post a couple months ago, I rounded up a lot of encouraging police data on homicide rates through the first quarter of 2025. As summer officially gets started, it seemed a good time to update some of these…

Sentencing Law and Policy

"Compassionate Undercharging"

By Douglas Berman
June 20, 2025

The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by Michal Buchhandler-Raphael and available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:

Undercharging, a common prosecutorial tactic, refers to the strategic pursuit of lesser charges than the law…

Sentencing Law and Policy

By 7-2 vote, Supreme Court holds in <em>Esteras</em> that federal judges cannot consider retribution factors when revoking supervised release

By Douglas Berman
June 20, 2025

The Supreme Court this morning handed down a notable sentencing opinion this morning in Esteras v. United States, No. 23-7483 (S. Ct. June 20, 2025) (available here).  The vote as 7-2, and the opinion for the Court was…

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