Federal Judiciary

New Filing: Dunphy v. US

By Akin Gump Supreme Court Practice Group

Today the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic ? with Jeffrey Fisher as counsel of record ? is filing this cert. reply brief in Dunphy v. United States. At issue in the case is whether the Federal Sentencing Guidelines are binding when a district court imposes a new sentence pursuant to a revised guideline range under 18 U.S.C. § 3582. The National Association of Federal Defenders filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioner in the case.

Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).