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Federal courts and prosecutors treat 18 U.S.C. § 111 as a flexible tool to protect federal officers’ ability to perform official duties, applying it to a wide range of conduct from physical blows to o...
Federal appellate courts have repeatedly recognized a right to record law-enforcement officers performing their public duties, but the doctrine has been shaped by a patchwork of decisions that allow r...
Federal courts and lawmakers are wrestling with (CSAM): prosecutors treat such material as criminal under existing federal statutes in many cases, but constitutional limits from and recent district-co...
All-party (often called “two-party”) consent states require that every participant in a private conversation agree before audio can be recorded; most states, and federal law follow one‑party consent, ...
Federal prosecutors have charged people for creating, distributing, or possessing AI-generated CSAM, and at least one defendant successfully won dismissal of a possession count on First Amendment grou...
Federal appellate courts are actively divided over whether 18 U.S.C. § 111 requires “assaultive” conduct (including threatening or menacing conduct that creates an apprehension of harm) as an element ...
Federal appeals courts have not produced a uniform, definitive rule that streaming child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without saving a file always constitutes “possession”; lower courts and commentato...
Key Supreme Court and federal appeals rulings that conditioned Obama‑era prosecutorial discretion in immigration include the Supreme Court’s intervention in challenges to Obama’s Deferred Action initi...
Courts and regulators have produced a mixed record: a Virginia licensing action resulted in a formal reprimand and monetary penalty against Eric Berg, D.C., based on unsupported therapeutic claims (Qu...
Federal courts were sharply divided before the Supreme Court’s ruling: a minority of circuits—most notably the Fifth, along with the Second, Fourth, and Eighth in practice—applied a compressed “moment...
The Supreme Court’s recent interventions have constrained the president’s Article II claim to deploy military forces domestically, signaling that such deployments are “exceptional,” subject to statuto...
Federal courts over the past year have repeatedly found that ICE actions ran afoul of legal limits — judges have ordered releases for detainees after finding unlawful arrests or due-process failures (...
Federal courts in the last five years have fractured on whether C. § 111 requires “assault” as an essential element and how broadly the adjective “forcibly” reaches non‑contact conduct; some courts an...
Federal appellate courts are split: several circuits have held that a single, egregious utterance of the N‑word can be enough to send a Title VII claim to a jury, while others treat a lone slur as a n...
The — a 2022 court agreement restricting warrantless and collateral arrests in the — was extended by through February 2, 2026, and the court ordered continued reporting, reissuance of a broadcast poli...
Since 2022, two lines of appellate and high‑profile federal rulings have most reshaped on ICE’s warrantless arrests: in that scrutinized and probable‑cause safeguards , and that narrowed district‑cour...
Courts have treated as legally fraught: longstanding Supreme Court protections for “virtual” depictions mean synthetic images that do not involve real children can be constitutionally protected speech...
The materials provided do not include a Supreme Court opinion resolving ; instead they show the petition for certiorari, briefing by amici, and ruling that § 111 does not require the common‑law offens...
Federal courts are sharply split over whether common‑law simple assault is an element of : some circuits treat § 111 convictions as requiring at least some form of assaultive conduct, while others all...
The reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to and and remanded the case for further proceedings, concluding the “requires and receives regular care by a Physician” does not include th...