Aurora Barnes

Posted Thu, August 22nd, 2019 11:00 am by Aurora Barnes This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address the constitutionality of the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, the availability of a suit seeking monetary damages against individual federal employees under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and whether Heck v.

Posted Wed, August 14th, 2019 11:00 am by Aurora Barnes This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things,  the availability of joint and several forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(C), whether the Lanham Act prohibits registering as a trademark an otherwise generic term when a generic top-level domain (“.com”) is added to it, and whether an ordinance prohibiting being topless in public classifies on the basis of gender.

Posted Wed, August 7th, 2019 2:30 pm by Aurora Barnes This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address a district court’s discretion to deny a request for a writ of habeas corpus to compel a nonparty inmate to appear as a trial witness and whether solicitation can constitute an “attempt” under the Controlled Substances Act.