The Supreme Court of the United States issued five decisions today: United States v. Rahimi, No. 22-915: This Second Amendment case addresses the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8), which makes it a crime for an...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued three decisions today: Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, No. 22-807: This case concerns the interplay between allegations of racial and partisan...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in two cases: Carnahan v. Maloney, No. 22-425: This is an Article III standing case arising from the federal statute, 5 U.S.C. § 2954, that directs...more
On a single evening, William Dale Wooden went on a spree, burglarizing 10 units in the same storage facility. The question resolved in the Supreme Court’s somewhat unanimous decision in Wooden v. United States is whether,...more
On March 2, 2021, in a rare en banc decision, United States v. Scott, 18-163-cr, the Second Circuit held in a divided 9-5 opinion that New York first-degree manslaughter is categorically a “violent felony” under the Armed...more
On March 2, 2021, in a rare en banc decision, United States v. Scott, the Second Circuit held in a divided 9-5 opinion that New York first-degree manslaughter is categorically a “violent felony” under the Armed Career...more
American Medical Assn. v. Cochran, No. 20-429; Cochran v. Mayor and City Council Baltimore, No. 20-454; and Oregon v. Cochran, No. 20-539: In 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) promulgated a rule that,...more
In United States v. Ojeda, the Second Circuit (Cabranes, Raggi, Korman, by designation) affirmed a 2018 judgment issued in the Southern District of New York ordering a mandatory minimum sentence under the Armed Career...more
This afternoon, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in the following cases: Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., No. 18-956: 1) Whether copyright protection extends to a software interface. 2) Whether,...more
This morning, at the end of the Supreme Court’s Term before its summer recess, the Court granted certiorari in the following thirteen cases: Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil, Inc., No. 18-1233: Whether, under section 35 of...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued the following two decisions today: New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira, No. 17-340: Respondent Dominic Oliveira works as a driver for petitioner New Prime, Inc., an interstate trucking...more
On December 10, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States decided United States v. Stitt, No. 17-765, holding that the federal statutory term “burglary,” as used in the Armed Career Criminal Act, includes burglary...more