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Grammar Schooled: Over-Zealous Feds Get an “F” in Adverbs
In a sort-of unanimous opinion today, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a Mexican who’d tried to get a job by using counterfeit Social Security and Alien Registration cards along with a...
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Supreme Court Finds Animal-Cruelty Law to be Unconstitutionally Overbroad
Congress screwed up again. Animal cruelty sucks. It’s against the law, in one form or another, in every single state. The feds wanted to outlaw it, as well. But they have that pesky jurisdictional...
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Deadlines, Schmedlines
It was a case of very strange bedfellows today at the Supreme Court. The 5-4 decision in Dolan v. U.S. (opinion here) wasn’t split on ideological lines, but on lines of seniority. The majority...
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Is Dolan a Clue to the Upcoming “Honest Services” Decisions?
We’re still waiting to hear how the Supreme Court decides the trio of cases on “honest services” fraud. In the meantime, we’re wondering if yesterday’s Dolan decision might be a harbinger of what’s...
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Another reason to hate NY’s “Hate Crimes” law
“Hate” is not an element of New York’s “hate crime” law. You don’t have to hate to commit a hate crime. Instead, the law merely requires that you have “a belief or perception” regarding a person’s...
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Skilling Decision: Good for Justice, Bad for Jurisprudence
It looks like we spotted the trend. Unfortunately. Last week we noted that, when faced with an ambiguous statute, some on the Supreme Court are now willing to read new language into the statute,...
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Just Around the Corner
The Supreme Court is back in session on Monday, and we’re not ashamed to admit that we’re excited. As always. And they’re starting off the argument season with a bang — a critical issue on federal...
View ArticleGrammar Police Fail
So everyone from the Washington Post to Fark is reporting gleefully about the recent acquittal of a Northern Virginia man charged with failing to stop for a school bus picking up kids. The defense...
View ArticleLet’s Make a New Law!
Any moderately well-informed person these days is aware of the shocking injustices that happen whenever criminal laws get written by people who don’t really understand what criminal law is, or how it...
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