Article I, §9 of the Constitution states “no ex post facto Law shall be passed”; §10 that “no State shall … pass any … ex post facto Law.” Courts must ...
You have to love the elocution of certain words and phrases, particularly in the confounding arena of law and legalisms. We’ve run into some of these before in this column, words and combinations such ...
In Peugh v. United States, Monday’s significant opinion applying Article I’s Ex Post Facto Clauses, all members of the Court appeared to agree that the constitutional doctrine in this area is a bit ...
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I wanted to add a few words to co-blogger Jonathan Adler’s posting about the recent 6th Circuit decision in Doe v. Snyder, in which the court voided application of the Michigan Sex Offender ...
The Supreme Court recently and unanimously held in Ellingburg v. United States[1] that restitution imposed under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 (MVRA) qualifies as “criminal punishment” ...
Overturning prior PTAB precedent, the Federal Circuit has now held that post-facto business mergers that create a new real-party-in-interest (“RPI”) trigger the one-year bar date for filing IPR ...
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