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"Justices Ease Deportation Rule in Minor Drug Cases"

"Justices Ease Deportation Rule in Minor Drug Cases": Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times. The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled "A Good Day for Judicial Discretion."

In today's edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article headlined "No automatic deportation of immigrants for minor drug offenses, justices rule."

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has articles headlined "Court blocks deportation over minor drug convictions; The justices rule that a legal Texas resident's two possession arrests do not constitute an 'aggravated felony' and that he should not have been sent to Mexico" and "U.S. Supreme Court to rule on California inmate release; Ordered by federal judges to free 46,000 prisoners to relieve overcrowding, Gov. Schwarzenegger sought the top court's intervention; The case will be heard this fall and a ruling is expected early next year."

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that "High court to rule on state inmate reductions."

Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News reports that "U.S. Supreme Court to hear California prison overcrowding case."

Denny Walsh of The Sacramento Bee reports that "U.S. Supreme Court to hear California prison population case."

Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers reports that "Supreme Court eases restriction on prisoners' appeals."

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has articles headlined "Supreme Court to hear California prison overcrowding case; A federal panel ordered the release of 38,000 from California's prisons to alleviate strain on inmate health care; Gov. Schwarzenegger wants the Supreme Court to overturn the order"; "Supreme Court gives hope to some death-row inmates; The Supreme Court ruled Monday that, under extraordinary circumstances, courts should accept death row appeals even after a one-year statute of limitations has expired"; "Supreme Court: judges have leeway on criminal restitution deadline; A federal law mandates that judges decide restitution in criminal cases within 90 days of sentencing; But the Supreme Court ruled Monday that judges could impose the dollar figure after the deadline so long as they said beforehand that they were going to order restitution"; and "Supreme Court refuses Maher Arar torture case; The US Supreme Court declined to take the case of Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who alleged that US officials deported him to Syria in 2002 knowing he would be tortured during terrorism interrogations."

Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal reports that "Supreme Court Delivers Rare Victory to Death Penalty Defendants." And Marcia Coyle reports that "High Court Lets Government Take Fee Awards for Clients' Debts."

Full post as published by How Appealing on June 15, 2010 (boomark / email).