The US Supreme Court named Jones Day partner Anthony J. Dick to defend a 33-year-old precedent that established a rule on when federal courts must defer to commentary in federal sentencing guidelines.

This article discusses Amendment 821 to the Sentencing Guidelines, which went into effect on November 1, 2023, adding a new “zero-point offender” adjustment. The white-collar bar lauded this amendment ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Only sentencing guideline aficionados would have paid close attention to yesterday morning’s decision in Beckles v. United ...

In March we reported on the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s proposed amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (the “Guidelines”).[1] (2026 Proposed Amendments To The Federal Sentencing ...

(CN) - The Supreme Court on Thursday took up the issue of how to handle a lower court's use of incorrect sentencing guidelines for a deportee convicted of being in the country illegally. Saul ...

New federal sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses went into effect Monday, a week after the US Sentencing Commission promulgated them. The commission acted on a temporary basis to implement ...

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