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Due Process
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Eleventh Circuit panel categorically rejectsJohnsonvagueness attack on career offender guidelines
Main September 21, 2015Eleventh Circuit panel categorically rejects Johnson vagueness attack on career offender guidelinesIn this prior post a few days after the US Supreme Court ruled that a key…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Federal judge finds unconstitutional Missouri’s operation of its sex-offender civil commitment program
Main September 12, 2015Federal judge finds unconstitutional Missouri's operation of its sex-offender civil commitment programAs reported in this local piece, headlined "U.S. judge rules handling of state's sexual predator program…
Land Use Prof Blog
Recent (9/3/2015) 9th Circuit opinion in RANCHO DE CALISTOGA V. CITY OF CALISTOGA. (http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/ opinions/2015/09/03/12-17749.pdf).Affirmance of district court’s dismissal of anaction brought by the owner of a mobile home park…
ImmigrationProf Blog
#Love Wins*: *But Only If, You Marry One of Us
This summer, the ImmigrationProf blog ran an on-line symposium on the Supreme Court case of Kerry v. Din in which the Court addressed an immigrant visa denial and the possible…
NJ Family Legal Blog
TRIAL COURT FOUND TO HAVE DENIED DUE PROCESS RIGHTS TO PRO SE LITIGANT IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MATTER
Law is never easy. Practicing law can be even less so. How about going it on your own without an attorney? Not everyone may know that a "pro se" litigant acting on his…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Seventh Circuit Finds No Valid Constitutional Claims in School Bullying Lawsuit
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of LawAffirming the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the schools, the Seventh Circuit's brief opinion today in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Procedural Due Process Liberty Interests by Ann Woolhandler
Procedural Due Process Liberty Interests by Ann Woolhandler, University of Virginia School of Law August 2015 Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 41Abstract: The Supreme Court’s divided…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Inter-American Commission: US Can and Must Do More to Close Guantánamo
by Deborah Popowski, Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School, guest contributorOn August 5th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released a report denouncing the United States government for unlawfully…
International Law Prof Blog
IACHR Report on Closure of Guantanamo Detention Center
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has published a report entitled, "Towards the Closure of Guantanamo," which addresses the human rights situation of persons detained at the U.S. Naval Base in…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Seventh Circuit authorizes successive 2255 attack on ACCA sentence based onJohnson
Main August 4, 2015Seventh Circuit authorizes successive 2255 attack on ACCA sentence based on Johnson A helpful reader altered me to a significant post-Johnson ruling today by the Seventh Circuit…