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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, HEALTH
LAW
Gonzales v.
Carhart, No. 05-380, 05-1382
In a challenge to the
federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act which proscribes a particular
method of ending fetal life in the later stages of pregnancy,
judgments enjoining enforcement of the Act are reversed as
respondents did not demonstrate that the Act, as a facial matter, is
void for vagueness, or that it imposes an undue burden on a woman's
right to abortion based on its overbreadth or lack of a health
exception. Read
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CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE, SENTENCING
James v. US,
No. 05-9264
Attempted burglary, as defined by
Florida law, is a "violent felony" under the Armed Career Criminal
Act (ACCA) for sentencing purposes. Read
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