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8 Apr 2023, 3:47 pm
She had recorded the incident on her smartphone and showed the footage to the police, who later arrested the driver on charges of burglary and petty theft. [read post]
8 Apr 2023, 6:00 am
“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 12:30 pm
Justice Robert Jackson stirringly wrote: "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 11:24 am
In a legal system with far too many petty laws, almost anyone can potentially be charged with something. [read post]
5 Apr 2023, 3:11 pm
This is the lowest-level theft offense and is often classified as “petty theft. [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 1:00 pm
The legal system is supposed to supply checks and balances but keeping people in jail pending trial eliminates them all and makes some police into petty tyrants. [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 12:01 am
When a science-fiction villain is defeated, we often see the heroes take their victory lap and then everyone lives happily ever after. [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 3:25 pm
“How Two Supreme Court Cases Made ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishment’ Meaningless: Two decades ago, the Supreme Court had the chance to stop lawmakers from sentencing people to life in prison for petty theft; It decided to look the other way. [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 2:45 am
The question is whether the law should be dubiously stretched in various directions to take down a former president for what will, at worst, be a relatively petty offense unrelated to his conduct in office when there are three other potential crimes, far more serious, far more substantive and far more connected to the wrongs committed as president. [read post]
30 Mar 2023, 9:23 am
Common examples of misdemeanor charges include traffic violations, petty theft, disorderly conduct, and simple assault. [read post]
24 Mar 2023, 3:04 pm
Once the worker does that, the misconduct is actionable unless the employer can demonstrate to the court that the actions about which the worker complained amounted to nothing more than things that a reasonable employee would consider to be “petty slights or trivial inconveniences. [read post]
24 Mar 2023, 11:41 am
“It’s pathetic that the people he hired and trained can only defend themselves by petty accusations of taking a leased car, which has in fact been returned, and a computer, which had his personal emails on it. [read post]
24 Mar 2023, 5:41 am
A petty theft charge is for anyone accused of stealing $950 or less of merchandise. [read post]
21 Mar 2023, 1:22 am
Prosecution of falsifying business records in the first degree is commonplace and has been used by New York district attorneys’ offices to hold to account a breadth of criminal behavior from the more petty and simple to the more serious and highly organized. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 1:46 pm
Tyranny is always petty--and petty tyranny will not save the planet. [read post]
9 Mar 2023, 1:44 pm
Zummo, the court wroteIt has long been a fixed star in our constitutional constellation that no government official, high or petty, have any authority whatsoever to declare orthodoxy in matters of religion. [read post]
9 Mar 2023, 6:48 am
" Here, the trial record supports the jury's finding that the memo was a "petty slight, minor annoyance, or trivial punishment" and not a real adverse action. [read post]
7 Mar 2023, 3:34 am
Also, bear in mind that even if it meant that 10 petty offenders weren’t prosecuted, what about the defendant charged with serious crimes who went to trial and would get life plus cancer? [read post]
2 Mar 2023, 7:28 am
Depending on the nature of the crime and the damage it causes, a cybercrime in Colorado may be charged as a felony, a misdemeanor, or a petty offense. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm
Here, the state court’s sticklerism regarding a fairly inconsequential matter (the font) could be held inadequate, thus allowing the Supreme Court to decide the merits of the Fourth Amendment objection.Adequacy in the Cruz CaseThe Supreme Court very rarely says that an independent state law ground for a decision is inadequate in the way that the font rule is inadequate because, unsurprisingly, few state court procedural rules are that petty. [read post]
