Tag: Precedents
Cannon’s Dismissal of Trump Case Rejects Precedents of Higher Courts
Her decision rejected what the Supreme Court said in a landmark ruling in 1974.
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U.S. Government's Legal Precedents Don't Support Lengthy Prison Term, Bankman-Fried's Defense Argues
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers have pushed back against the U.S. government's sentencing memo which makes the case for why it thinks the former FTX CEO s [...]
Trump’s Claim of ‘Absolute Immunity’ Collides With Supreme Court Precedents
The former president says he has “absolute immunity.” But an array of Supreme Court decisions tells a different story.
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What SEC ICO Precedents Mean for Ripple
Back in 2012, when Ripple was founded, the term “initial coin offering” did not exist. Neither did enforcement actions against the then-miniscule cryp [...]
The Problem of ‘Personal Precedents’ of Supreme Court Justices
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices, like most people, like to appear to be consistent. No one wants to be thought to be a flip-flopper, an opportunis [...]
With Roe at Risk, Justices Explore a New Way to Question Precedents
In 2008, in Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized an individual right to own guns under the [...]
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