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15 Jul 2010, 3:51 am by Russ Bensing
  Spisak, a neo-Nazi, killed three people in Cleveland, and the 6th Circuit had vacated the death sentence, finding that his attorney’s closing argument constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 5:34 am by Brandon Bartels
In addition, he would interview people in line about why they were there and their impressions of the Court and the case to be argued. [read post]
5 Jul 2010, 3:29 pm
Comstock The court upheld, under the Commerce Clause, the law passed by Congress allowing the civil commitment of a mentally ill federal prisoner convicted of a sex offense beyond the end date of his or her sentence.Separation of Powers: Free Enterprise Fund v. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 1:39 pm by WIMS
District Judge Martin Feldman in New Orleans has ruled to lift the moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling ((Hornbeck v. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 1:42 pm by WIMS
 These are resilient people down on the Gulf Coast. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 1:22 pm by WIMS
The company also has paid approximately $42 million in compensation to people and companies affected by the spill. [read post]
23 May 2010, 8:02 am by Miguel Larios
  Now, thanks to the ruling in U.S. v Comstock, that power seems practically infinite: federal authorities can imprison people indefinitely on suspicions of future dangerousness. [read post]
21 May 2010, 1:11 pm by Jeff Gamso
 Rather, the purpose was to ensure that the people have the means of effecting violent revolution against the government. [read post]
21 May 2010, 10:47 am by Ilya Somin
Comstock, added that the power to imprison implies an obligation to protect the public from dangerous people even after they had served their sentences. [read post]
20 May 2010, 11:56 am by SOIssues
Original Article 05/20/2010 By Wendy Kaminer In what will likely be one of her last victories as solicitor general, Elena Kagan persuaded the Supreme Court to embrace an expansive vision of federal power that should agitate right-wing advocates of freedom and small central government, but probably won't, because U.S v Comstock, involved the power to detain people deemed "sexually dangerous" under the popular Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act. [read post]
20 May 2010, 5:00 am by zshapiro
§4248 in United States v, Comstock on the basis that the Constitution does not grant the Federal government authority to institutionalize them beyond their maximum prison commitment. [read post]
19 May 2010, 8:34 am by Steve Erickson
  This accompanied the landmark decisions of O'Connor v. [read post]