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7 Sep 2016, 10:37 am by Eugene Volokh
Five judges (Judges Hardiman, Fisher, Chagares, Jordan and Nygaard) agreed that Binderup and Suarez should have their Second Amendments restored, but for a slightly different reason. [read post]
25 Feb 2018, 5:45 am
Judge Nygaard would have held the Government bound to concessions it made in the district court.Image from PC Magazine, "Inside the Dark Web," 2/4/2015, https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476003,00.asp [read post]
18 May 2023, 9:05 pm by Nabil Shaikh
The Fifth Circuit heard arguments over a federal judge’s preliminary ruling that invalidated the approval of the abortion medication mifepristone by the U.S. [read post]
4 Mar 2008, 12:31 pm
In a majority opinion drafted by Judge Rendell (joined by Nygaard), the Third Circuit held that the "discontinuance" was not a sentence under § 4A1.2(a) and that the resulting improper Guidelines range was not harmless error.With respect to the "discontinuance" the Court focused on the language of § 4A1.2(a) which limits the assignment of criminal history points to those offenses committed prior to age eighteen which… [read post]
7 Jul 2017, 11:51 am by Eugene Volokh
The panel majority concluded that the police officers were entitled to qualified immunity, because the right involved here wasn’t clearly enough established: “[W]e cannot say that the state of the law at the time of our cases (2012 and 2013) gave fair warning so that every reasonable officer knew that, absent some sort of expressive intent, recording public police activity was constitutionally protected”; Judge Nygaard, dissenting in part, would have held that the… [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Judge Asks Court Not to ‘Short Circuit’ His Review of Flynn Case New York Times – Charlie Savage | Published: 6/1/2020 The Justice Department’s conduct in abruptly deciding to end the case against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn was so unusual it raised a “plausible question” about the legitimacy of the move, a lawyer for the trial judge overseeing that case told a federal appeals court. [read post]