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Vagueness
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ContractsProf Blog
“We’ll Take Care of You” Does Not Equal $2.5 Million for Johnny Wilkes
When I teach vagueness, I use Baer v. Chase. The case is about an aspiring screenwriter who pitches a script for a show about the New Jersey mob to David Chase, the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Seventh Circuit Rules that Indiana’s Abortion “Complications Statute” is Not Unconstitutionally Vague
By Jamie Abrams
The Seventh Circuit ruled last week in Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky v. Marion County Prosecutor. The Indiana statute at issue, Indiana Code § 16-34-2-4.7, required that providers report…
PrawfsBlawg
Inputs and Outputs vs. Rules and Standards
Main Monday, May 11, 2020Inputs and Outputs vs. Rules and Standards I don't love the name “Legal Discontinuities.” Discontinuities are perspectival. For example, in countries with progressive income taxes, as…
PrawfsBlawg
Notice, Vagueness, and Trump’s Anti-Impeachment Argument
Main Wednesday, January 22, 2020Notice, Vagueness, and Trump’s Anti-Impeachment ArgumentOn Monday, the President’s lawyers filed a memorandum with the Senate that lays out his response to the House’s impeachment case.…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Over dissent, SCOTUS refuses to take upJohnsonchallenge to then-mandatory career-offender guidelines
Main October 15, 2018Over dissent, SCOTUS refuses to take up Johnson challenge to then-mandatory career-offender guidelinesThe Supreme Court had recently relisted a set of cases concerning whether and how the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
En bancEleventh Circuit finds way to uphold key clause of § 924(c) mandatory-minimum statute against vagueness challenge
Main October 4, 2018En banc Eleventh Circuit finds way to uphold key clause of § 924(c) mandatory-minimum statute against vagueness challengeIf you cannot get enough of debates over federal statutory…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A bunch ofDimayaGVRs and a hundreds of criminal case cert denials in first SCOTUS order list of October Term 2018
Main October 1, 2018A bunch of Dimaya GVRs and a hundreds of criminal case cert denials in first SCOTUS order list of October Term 2018As noted in this post a…
PrawfsBlawg
SCOTUS Term: Beckles v. United States As Anti-Canon
Main Monday, June 18, 2018SCOTUS Term: Beckles v. United States As Anti-CanonA little more than a week ago, Carissa Hessick wrote a PrawfsBlawg post about the Supreme Court’s decision in…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Guest post: “The Eleventh Circuit’s Take On Handling The Wave ofDimaya-Related Litigation”
Main June 5, 2018Guest post: "The Eleventh Circuit’s Take On Handling The Wave of Dimaya-Related Litigation" A helpful reader alerted me to an order recently issued by the Eleventh Circuit…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A few juicy SCOTUS relists (to temper the guideline-vagueness denials) for sentencing fans
Main May 25, 2018A few juicy SCOTUS relists (to temper the guideline-vagueness denials) for sentencing fansOver at SCOTUSblog, John Elwood continues his yeoman's work via his "Relist Watch" postings which…