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The families argue that they should have been given an opportunity to confer with prosecutors under the Crime Victims' Rights Act before Boeing's deferred prosecution agreement was finalized.

While expressing great sympathy for the victims' families, Judge O'Connor concludes that no remedy is available for the Justice Department's failure to enforce the families' right to confer under the Crime Victims' Rights Act.

A federal court finds that women's lives are less important than a bizarre misreading of the Second Amendment

The Evarts Act of 1892 established the modern-day circuit courts of appeals.

Judges cannot take the Supreme Court's silence as a ground to subvert Supreme Court precedent.

Alaskan Natives, Alaska Airlines, and Alaskan students.

Judge James Ho concurs, adding "I write separately to point out that our Founders firmly believed in the fundamental role of government in protecting citizens against violence, as well as the individual right to keep and bear arms—and that these two principles are not inconsistent but entirely compatible with one…

Bogus arrests, bogus charges, and bogus seizures.

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