plain-text-interpretation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
20-1648 James H. Fischer v. Sandra F. Forrest, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-26 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split copyright copyright-management-information digital-millennium-copyright-act licensing plain-text-interpretation The Digital Millennium Copyright Act protect s the integrity of copyright management information ("CMI"), a defined term. 17 U.S.C. § 1202(c). Section…
20-5628 Javier Corona-Verduzco v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP based on the plain text of the statute without relying on extratextual sources of author 21-usc-841 drug-felony extratextual-sources first-step-act imprisonment-term plain-text plain-text-analysis plain-text-interpretation sentencing-enhancement serious-drug-felony statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase "served a term of imprisonment of more than 12 months" in the First Step Act unambiguously allows a defendant to sustain two "serio…