Drake University Law School is the law school of Drake University,located in Des Moines,Iowa. Over 330 full-time students attend the institution. Dean Jerry Anderson is in charge of the University. Founded in 1865,Drake Law School is one of the 25 oldest law schools in the country.
Steven Michael Colloton is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2003.
The University of Iowa College of Law is the law school of the University of Iowa,located in Iowa City,Iowa. It was founded in 1865.
Hill v. McDonough,547 U.S. 573 (2006),was a United States Supreme Court case challenging the use of lethal injection as a form of execution in the state of Florida. The Court ruled unanimously that a challenge to the method of execution as violating the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution properly raised a claim under 42 U.S.C. §1983,which provides a cause of action for civil rights violations,rather than under the habeas corpus provisions. Accordingly,that the prisoner had previously sought habeas relief could not bar the present challenge.
Mistretta v. United States,488 U.S. 361 (1989),is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court concerning the constitutionality of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Rummel v. Estelle,445 U.S. 263 (1980),was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld a life sentence with the possibility of parole under Texas' three strikes law for a felony fraud crime,where the offense and the defendant's two prior offenses involved approximately $230 of fraudulent activity.
Gall v. United States,552 U.S. 38 (2007),was a decision by the United States Supreme Court,which held that the federal appeals courts may not presume that a sentence falling outside the range recommended by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines is unreasonable. Applying this rule to the case at hand,it upheld a sentence of 36 months' probation imposed on a man who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute ecstasy in the face of a recommended sentence of 30 to 37 months in prison.
George Gardner Fagg was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
James Edward Gritzner is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
Robert W. Pratt is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
Linda Rae Reade is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.
Graham v. Florida,560 U.S. 48 (2010),was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States holding that juvenile offenders cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses.
Brent R. Appel is an American attorney,politician and former judge who served as a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court from 2006 to 2022. Appel was previously an attorney in the office of the Attorney General of Iowa and was a candidate for a seat in the Iowa General Assembly.
Pepper v. United States,562 U.S. 476 (2011),is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States concerning whether a United States District Court properly handled the sentencing of a former methamphetamine dealer. He was originally sentenced to 24 months in prison,far shorter than what federal guidelines generally specify for crimes of that nature. Prosecutors appealed the case to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit,which remanded the case back to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa,which affirmed the original sentence after testimony relating the defendant's rehabilitation. The case was appealed to the Eighth Circuit again,and was again remanded. A different District Court judge gave him a 65-month sentence. The defendant then brought the case back to the Eighth Circuit,which confirmed the later ruling,and to then to the Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor wrote the opinion of the court,which ruled in favor of the defendant.
Burrage v. United States,571 U.S. 204 (2014),was a United States Supreme Court case in which a unanimous Court held that a defendant cannot be liable for penalty enhancement under the penalty enhancement provision of the Controlled Substances Act unless such use is a but-for cause of the death or injury,at least when the use of a drug distributed by the defendant is not an independently sufficient cause of the victim's death or serious bodily injury.
Mark McCormick is a former justice of the Iowa Supreme Court who served from 1972 to 1986.
Gundy v. United States,No. 17-6086,588 U.S. ___ (2019),was a United States Supreme Court case that held that 42 U.S.C. § 16913(d),part of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ("SORNA"),does not violate the nondelegation doctrine. The section of the SORNA allows the Attorney General to "specify the applicability" of the mandatory registration requirements of "sex offenders convicted before the enactment of [SORNA]". Precedent is that it is only constitutional for Congress to delegate legislative power to the executive branch if it provides an "intelligible principle" as guidance. The outcome of the case could have greatly influenced the broad delegations of power Congress has made to the federal executive branch,but it did not.
Stokeling v. United States,586 U.S. ___ (2019),was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that state robbery offenses that involve overcoming victim resistance count as "violent felonies" under the definition of that term under the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984,even when only 'slight force' is required. Under the Armed Career Criminal Act,defendants with three or more violent felonies can face higher sentences when subsequently convicted of a federal firearms-related offense. This case upheld a ruling by the 11th Circuit.
Concepcion v. United States,597 U.S. ___ (2022),is a United States Supreme Court decision that concerns district courts' ability to consider changes of law or fact in exercising their discretion to reduce a sentence.
Pulsifer v. United States,,is a pending United States Supreme Court case regarding 18 U.S.C. § 3553,the federal sentencing statute.
