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Wong v. Smith • [full text]
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562 U.S. ___ (2010)
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judicial commenting on evidence • judicial coercion of a jury verdict
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Roberts, Scalia
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| Alito filed a dissent from the Court's denial of certiorari, where the lower court had granted habeas relief on the grounds that a judge's comments to a deadlocked jury about the evidence coerced them into returning a guilty verdict. Alito observed that the privilege of common law judges to comment on the evidence was centuries old, and no Supreme Court precedent had yet ruled on whether or when the exercise of that privilege constituted coercion. In Alito's view, therefore, the lower court's judgment was contrary to the requirement under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act that a state court judgment must be contrary to clearly established law in order to be set aside by a federal habeas court.
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Harper v. Maverick Recording Co. • [full text]
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562 U.S. ___ (2010)
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copyright infringement • statutory damages • innocent infringer defense • music downloading
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| Alito filed a dissent from the Court's denial of certiorari, in a case involving a 16-year old girl sued for illegally downloading music from the internet. The lower court had ruled the girl was ineligible for the "innocent infringer" defense, which would have reduced the statutory damages available, because it was foreclosed by 17 U.S.C. § 402(d), which applies when the defendant had access to a "phonorecord" bearing a copyright notice. Alito noted that the statutory definition of "phonorecord" only applied to material objects, and so there was a "strong argument" that §402(d) did not apply to downloaded digital music files. Though there was not yet a circuit split on the issue, Alito believed certiorari was appropriate because the issue was important and unlikely to be presented to the courts of appeals in many cases.
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Ortiz v. Jordan
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562 U.S. ___ (2011)
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Scalia, Kennedy
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CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Dept. of Revenue
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562 U.S. ___ (2011)
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Ginsburg
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Williamson v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc.
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562 U.S. ___ (2011)
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Michigan v. Bryant
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562 U.S. ___ (2011)
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Pepper v. United States
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562 U.S. ___ (2011)
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United States Federal Sentencing Guidelines
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Skinner v. Switzer
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562 U.S. ___ (2011)
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Kennedy, Alito
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Connick v. Thompson
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563 U.S. ___ (2011)
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Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Alito
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Cullen v. Pinholster
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563 U.S. ___ (2011)
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Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy; Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Kagan
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