U.S. Law Week summarizes selected splits among U.S. federal courts of appeals each month.
Constitutional Law
Case:
Range v. Att’y Gen. U.S., 2024 BL 470218 (Article)
Issue:
Can the federal law that prohibits convicted felons from possessing guns be applied to a person who was convicted of a non-violent felony? The en banc Third Circuit says no, but the Eighth Circuit says that the statute is constitutional as applied to a non-violent past offender with “no need for felony-by-felony litigation.”
Criminal Law
Case:
United States v. Neely, 2024 BL 472779 (Article)
Issue:
Does Justice Kennedy’s concurrence in Missouri ...
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