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United States. Carlos Concepcion v. United States. Section 404 (b) of the First Step Act of 2018, 132 Stat. 5222, allows district courts to consider intervening changes of law or fact in exercising their discretion to reduce a sentence. Concepcion v. United States, 597 U.S. ___ (2022), is a United States Supreme Court decision that concerns ...
Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home is a four-story, 76,000-square-foot (7,100 m 2) "French Revival Chateauesque " [4] brick structure in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles near downtown. It was built in 1913 as a YWCA home for young working women. The house was built by William A. Clark (1839–1925), the copper magnate after whom Clark ...
Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty of married couples to use contraceptives without government restriction. [1]
On the other side of the country, in Queens, New York, 19-year-old Joceline Romo and her boyfriend, Fabian Maliza, 24, argued after coming home from a New Year's Eve party. Later, her body was found facedown in her bedroom, beaten and strangled. Her boyfriend has been charged with murder.
AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333 (2011), is a legal dispute that was decided by the United States Supreme Court. [1] [2] On April 27, 2011, the Court ruled, by a 5–4 margin, that the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 preempts state laws that prohibit contracts from disallowing class-wide arbitration, such as the law previously upheld by the California Supreme Court in the case of ...
The case involved a Connecticut "Comstock law" that prohibited any person from using "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception". The court held that the statute was unconstitutional, and that its effect was "to deny disadvantaged citizens ... access to medical assistance and up-to-date information in ...
Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Company. Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306 (1950), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States set forth the constitutional requirements for notice of judicial proceedings to a potential party under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [1]
Court membership. Judges sitting. Sonia Sotomayor, Joseph M. McLaughlin, Pierre N. Leval. Case opinions. Majority. Sotomayor, joined by McLaughlin, Leval. Specht v. Netscape, 306 F.3d 17 (2d Cir. 2002), [1] is a ruling at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit regarding the enforceability of clickwrap licenses under contract law.