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27 May 2010, 4:46 am
  And it might help account for the fact that prison sentences in the United States are so much lengthier than sentences for the same crimes in other comparable Western countries. [read post]
20 May 2010, 10:30 am by Lisa McElroy
” How about another sentencing case:  United States v. [read post]
17 May 2010, 1:23 pm by Peter Spiro
As we concluded in Roper with respect to the juvenile death penalty, “the United States now stands alone in a world that has turned its face against” life without parole for juvenile nonhomicide offenders. [read post]
17 May 2010, 9:25 am
As we concluded in Roper with respect to the juvenile death penalty, "the United States now stands alone in a world that has turned its face against" life without parole for juvenile nonhomicide offenders.The State’s amici stress that no international legal agreement that is binding on the United States prohibits life without parole for juvenile offenders and thus urge us to ignore the international consensus. [read post]
18 Apr 2010, 8:59 am by Tom Goldstein
  His successor could take a broader view of the extent to which federal law controls, which would allow fewer state-law tort suits to proceed. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 11:47 am by Kedar
Heller – Agreed 25-Mar United States v. [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 3:44 pm by admin
The two companies will also pay a combined $3.3 million civil penalty to the United States as well as to Alabama and Louisiana, and $200,000 to Louisiana organ [read post]
18 Jan 2010, 3:37 pm by The Complex Litigator
There was also a spirited exchange between District Judge Korman (Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, sitting by designation), who concurred in the decision, and Circuit Judge Rymer, who dissented. [read post]
14 Dec 2009, 10:16 pm
Finally, the chapter suggests ways to use international human rights to advocate for children in the United States. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 12:50 pm by Steve Hall
As it is, the United States is the only nation that sentences teenagers who are convicted of a nonhomicide crime to life in prison with no chance of parole. [read post]