In an important recent decision, U.S. v. Blewett, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Fair Sentencing Act should apply retroactively. The Court decided that to continue to uphold the ...

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that new sentencing guidelines designed to narrow the gap between punishments for crack cocaine and powder cocaine violations do ...

Today, two of the most controversial issues in sentencing law — the length of sentences for crack cocaine offenders and judges’ ability to go outside the federal sentencing guidelines — will intersect ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- After being instructed by the U.S. Supreme Court to review the drug conviction of a man arrested in Iowa, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today sent the case back to a ...

Federal Appellate Court Judge Paul J. Kelly held the minority opinion in a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that found the U.S. Constitution protects the rights of gay couples to marry.