Fourth Amendment Law
 
United States of America v. Marlon Darrell White

Grand Rapids, Michigan criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with transportation of firearms by felon.

A grand jury charged Marlon White with possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). White moved to dismiss the indictment, claiming that § 922(g)(1) violated the Second Amendment as applied to him. The
district court denied his moti

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State of Arkansas Cedric Taylor, Jr.

Fort Smith, AR criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm




The evidence at trial established that, on March 17, 2023, Officer N

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United States of America v. Jeffrey L. Scales

Knoxville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possession of heroin,
marijuana, and other evidence related to drug trafficking.

"It is a basic principle of the Fourth Amendment that for a search warrant to issue there
must be probable cause.” United States v. Laughton, 409 F.3d 744, 747 (6th Cir. 2005). “An issuing
judge may find proba

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Anthony McClendon EL v. Heidi E. Washington, Warden, et al.

Ann Arbor, Michigan civil rights lawyer presented the Plaintiff on prisoner civil rights violation theory.

Michigan prison officials have recommended that Anthony McClendon participate in a prison program designed for sex offenders to deter their sexual abuse. McClendon refuses to participate. So Michigan’s parole board has repeatedly denied him parole. In this case, we must consider wh

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Matthew Warman v. Mount St. Joseph University, et al.

Cincinnati, Ohio personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on civil rights violation theories.

Matthew Warman, a former graduate student at Mount St. Joseph
University (MSJU), objected to taking the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds. When
MSJU announced that it would require all students and employees to be vaccinated, Warman
applied for a religious exempti

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State of Maryland v. John N. Huffington >/h2>

Justice Went to Hell in Frederick Maryland when John Norman Huffington was found guilty of a crime he did not commit and was sentenced to death.

In the early morning hours of May 25, 1981 Diane Becker ("Becker") and Joseph Hudson ("Hudson") were brutally murdered in Harford County, Maryland. There is little doubt that the murders were drug-related. On the night in question Deno Constantin

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National Rifle Associations of America v. Maria T. Vullo

New York, New York civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on a First Amendment violation claim.

This case involves First Amendment claims brought by Plaintiff National Rifle Association of America (the "NRA") against Defendant Maria T. Vullo, the former Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services ("DFS") under former Governor Andre

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United States of America v. Steven George Morgan

Miami, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug trafficking.

A jury convicted Steven Morgan of three drug-trafficking
crimes after finding that he had been running cocaine from the
Caribbean into South Florida. On appeal, Morgan advances five
grounds for reversing his conviction—chief among them whether
either the Fourth or Fifth Amendm

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The People of the State of Colorado v.Kaylee Ann Messerly

Craig, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury and child abuse resulting in death.

In the early morning of March 11, 2021, an individual reported an abandoned car and stroller on a private road off County Road 54. When Deputy Leanna Dennis arrived, the snow was beginning to melt, and the road was muddy and sl

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In re the Marriage of Rachel Belinsky and Rabbi Jacob Bellinsky

Central City, Colorado family law lawyers represented the wife and husband in a divorce.

The parties’ marriage ended in 2016. Their separation agreement, which included a parenting plan, was incorporated into that decree, and provided for shared parental responsibilities for the
parties’ six unemancipated children.

In 2021, after an evidentiary hearing, the distri

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Leona M. Qualey v. Pierce County, et al.

Tacoma, Washington personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a civil rights violation theory.

The suit calls tOn Jan. 16, 2022, Moses Portillo was shot and killed. The plaintiff claimed that the shooting “unnecessary, reckless, negligent and wrongful,” and it claims Dolan violated proper police procedure, Sheriff’s Department’s policies and procedures and Was

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Ruthie Walls, et al. v. Sarah Sanders, in her official capacity as Governor of the State of Arkansas, et al.

Little Rock, Arkansas civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a First Amendment violation theory.

Two students alleged an Arkansas law violates their rights under the First Amendment’s Free Speech Clause because they claim it prohibits their teachers from providing classroom materials and instruction about Critical Race Theory (CRT).
Concluding the law likely violated the

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Jordan Whitaker v. Michael Dempsey, et al.

Winnebago, Illinois personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a prison civil rights violation theory.

Plaintiff Jordan Whitaker is a prisoner at Dixon Correctional Center with a long history of mental illness and self-harm. This case involves two incidents in August 2018 when Whitaker injured himself by reopening wounds on the inside of his elbow. He claims that Office

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United States of America v. Heriberto Carbajal-Flores

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with possessing a firearm
as an illegal alien in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A).

Chicago Police arrested Heriberto Carbajal-Flores after he repeatedly fired his pistol in a city
street.

Carbajal-Flores was born in Mexico. His mother brought
him to the United States in 2002 when he was

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United States of America v. Jtton Edward Watson, aka J’ttonAli One Eye El Bey

Cincinnati, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with f felony possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).

Motion to suppress s evidence obtained from a vehicle search conducted on December 5, 2020,
arguing that the initial traffic stop, his warrantless arrest, and the subsequent search of his vehicle
violated his Fourth Amendment righ

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Free Speech Coalition, Inc., et al. v. Ken Paxton

Washington, DC constitutional law lawyers represented the Plaintiffs and Appellants on Constituional violation of the First Amendment violation theory.


exas, like many States, prohibits distributing sexually explicit content to children. In 2023, Texas enacted H. B. 1181, requiring certain commercial websites publishing sexually explicit content that is obscene to minors to verify th

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United States of America v. Jesus Jose Advincula-Degado

Tampa, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with manfacturing, distributing or possessing controlled substance on a vessel.

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Legal issue Does § 1B1.10(b)(2)(B) allow for further sentence reduction beyond substantial-assistance departures under a retroactive guidelines amendment?
Headnote

CRIMINAL LAW. SENTENCE REDUCTION. The case e

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Associatation of Club Executives of Texas, et al. v. Ken Paxton, et al.

Austin, Texas civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff challenging the Constitutionality of a Texas statute.

In 2021, the Texas Legislature enacted Senate Bill 315. Tex. S.B. 315,
87th Leg. R.S. (2021). Recognizing that sexually oriented businesses are
high-risk locations for human trafficking and sexual exploitation, S.B. 315
aims to “provide necessary mechanisms” t

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United States of America v. Lorenzo Arturo Bernabe-Alejo, Luis, Fernando Ramos-Mendez, Refugio Ramos Daniel

San Diego, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with Importation of a Controlled Substance, Bringing in Aliens for Financial Gain and Aiding and Abetting, Deported Alien Found in the U.S.

U.S. Attorney’s Office Filed 95 Border-Related Cases This Week

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United States of America v. Donell Moses, Jr.

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer rerpesented the Defendant charged with felony possession of a firearm.

The Fourth Amendment does not protect every place that a suspect might go. It guards only “persons, houses, papers, and effects.” Though someone’s land is not his house or effects, some of it is so close to his house that we protect it as the house’s “curtilage.

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United States of America v. Francisco Alcocer-Sanchez

Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with using or possessing fraudulent immigration docuemtns in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1546, which provides:

he first paragraph of 18 U.S.C. § 1546(a) proscribes the forging, counterfeiting, altering or falsely making of certain immigration documents or their use, possession, or receipt. The second paragraph pros

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A.S. Vineyard Church of Overland Park d/b/a Vineyard Community Church,Vineyard USA, and Mark Warner

Olathe, Kansas personal injury lawyers reprsented the Plaintiff on a sexual abuse case.

In August 2021, A.S. filed a petition for damages and alleged that she was sexually abused as a child by Robert Bloom, her former youth pastor at Vineyard Church of Overland Park (VCOP). In addition to Bloom, A.S. named VCOP, Vineyard USA (VUSA), and Mark Warner as defendants in her claims of negligen

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United States of america v. Vincent Edward Wardlow

Fort Myers, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented the defendant charged with transportation of a firearm.

Shortly before 3:30 a.m. on March 19, 2023, Deputy Derek Matera was on patrol when he saw a car driving 67 miles per hour in a 45 mile-per-hour zone. As he began to follow the vehicle, Deputy Matera allegedly detected the smell of marijuana and concluded that it was likely comin

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United States of America v. Jonas Michael

Miami, Florida pro se Defendant unsuccessfully represented him self when charged with unlawful transportation of firearms.

Jonas Michel, proceeding pro se, appeals the district court’s order denying his motion for a sentence reduction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2) based on Part A of Amendment 821 to the United States Sentencing Guidelines, a retroactive amendment eliminating or re

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John F. Labriola v. Miami-Dade County

Miami, Florida civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a First Amendment violation theory.

John Labriola was a media aide for the Miami-Dade Board
of County Commissioners. Labriola v. Miami-Dade Cnty., 693 F.
Supp. 3d 1284, 1287 (S.D. Fla. 2023). In his own name and on his
own time, Labriola wrote an opinion piece that criticized the
Equality Act, an as-y

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