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Argument analysis: Court likely to rule that a defendant preserves appellate challenge to length of sentence merely by arguing for lower one, but precise wording of opinion ...

Justice Byron White, who as a retired justice hired a law clerk named Neil Gorsuch, once wrote that “a prime function of this Court’s certiorari jurisdiction [is] to resolve” conflicts between the ...
JD Supra

Supreme Court Argument Analysis: TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez

On March 30, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez, a case in which the Court is revisiting the issue of what constitutes an “injury-in-fact” to satisfy Article III ...
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Argument analysis: Is judicial review of a claim under the Convention Against Torture completely barred in cases involving removal orders on certain criminal grounds?

Nidal Khalid Nasrallah seeks the United States’ protection under the Convention Against Torture. An immigration judge found that he qualified for deferral of removal under the CAT. He remained ...
Miami University

Rhetorical Analyses

A rhetorical analysis considers all elements of the rhetorical situation--the audience, purpose, medium, and context--within which a communication was generated and delivered in order to make an ...