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88 CASSELL ET AL. [Vol. 104 crime victims to assert CVRA rights “in the district court in which a defendant is being prosecuted for the crime or, if no prosecution is underway, in the district court in the district in which the crime occurred.”'® The Department contends that thi...

… Alien Tort Statute, RICO, and common law causes of action. On October 7, 2010, the parties jointly requested that the district court enter Rule 54(b) final judgments in favor of all defendants dismissed through Terrorist Attacks IV and Terrorist Attacks V, as well as with respe...

…ther inmate for allegedly attacking him during incarceration.'°* In dismissing the suit in an unpublished decision, the district court recognized that the Government had expressly declined to bring charges against the other inmate and concluded that the CVRA did not create a “mec...

…tise for the judge in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to soften the stinging language in his order. Senior U.S. District Court Judge William J. Zloch copied Acosta on his order, noting, "The court is at a total loss as to why the Office of the United States Attorney for t...

…arry out such acts around the world. JA798-800, 823, 843-44, 3783, 3836, 3871; cf SPA152 (Terrorist Attacks IV) (as the district court elsewhere acknowledged, “[s]ince its inception in the late 1980’s, al-Qaeda has relied on well-placed financial facilitators and logistical spons...

…ell, and his colleague Brad Edwards, who represent various sexual trafficking victims in a case pending in the Southern District of Florida, specifically case no. 08-cv-80736- KAM, hereinafter (“CVRA case”). As a result of an affidavit filed in the CVRA case, Defendant went on a...

in the district court in the district in which the crime occurred."" °° In contrast

to the entry of a final judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New

…erdict-in-PGE-Pipeline-Blast- Case?slreturn=20160712215338>) going to trial at the same time and couldn't convince U.S. District Judge James Selna to push back the trial date, which had already been delayed several times. This was the lay of the land: Two weeks before, the Los An...

…ice of an upward departure based on victim impact statements. In United States v. Dozier, the Tenth Circuit held that a district court is required to give notice to a defendant before departing upward from the advisory guideline range based on victim impact statements. 42” The br...

the District Court for the Eastern District of New York agreed that the rights

…efore the scheduled showing, two women residents of Quincy House, not satisfied to protest and picket, called the local District Attorney’s office and asked the police to prevent the showing of Deep Throat and to arrest the students who were planning to show it. The local Distri...

…asked. Morgenthau’s years as United States Attorney were followed by political success. He was elected New York County District Attorney in 1974, the first of seven consecutive terms for that office. There are parallels between Morgenthau, and Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney f...

…oduce exhibits that were marked confidential in this case by plaintiff, and which plaintiff filed under seal before the district court. These disclosures violate both the spirit and the letter of the district court’s orders, and appear calculated to hamstring Professor Dershowitz...

…her inmate for allegedly attacking him during incarceration. !°° In dismissing the suit in an unpublished decision, the district court recognized that the Government had expressly declined to bring charges against the other inmate and concluded that the CVRA did not create a "mec...