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3.348 documents for false imprisonment examples

- U.S. v. Strandlof, (10th Cir. 2012)
...§ 704(b), which makes it illegal to falsely claim to have received a military award or honor. ... much breathing space is necessary, these examples and associated cases reflect the Court's consisten...112, 116 (1790) (prescribing imprisonment and fines for "any person [who] shall wilfully and...
- Federal Circuits
- Coercion's common threads: addressing vagueness in the federal criminal prohibitions on torture by looking to state domestic violence laws.
... and providing for lengthy terms of imprisonment for persons convicted of this offense. (3) Yet, th...courts. (67) Representative examples of such acts, the memo claimed, included "severe b... both hands; slamming him into a "flexible false wall"; striking him in the jaw with an open hand; ...
- Michigan Law Review
- Vol. 109 Nbr. 5, March 2011
- Wallace v. Kato, 549 U. S. (2007)
... upon a §1983 claim seeking damages for a false arrest in violation of the Fourth Amendment, where...For false imprisonment and its subspecies false arrest, "[t]he . . . caus...It is always possible to find aberrant examples in the law, but we should not craft rules for the ...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Graham v. Florida, 560 U. S. (2010)
... carrying a maximum penalty of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, §§810.02(1)(b... felony, the crime of obtaining money by false pretenses, Rummel v. Estelle, 445 U. S. 263 (1980)...As these examples make clear, existing state laws, allowing the impo...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Securities fraud.
... who employs a deceptive device or makes a false statement or omission of material fact in connecti..., however, do not necessarily entail imprisonment. (54) . Although civil actions require scienter an... classical theory and providing examples of insiders). . (180.) Id. (distinguishing misappr...
- American Criminal Law Review
- Vol. 47 Nbr. 2, March 2010
- Health care fraud.
...Medicaid False Claims Statute 1. Elements of the Offense a. State... by a fine not to exceed $25,000, imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. (52) Prior ... investment interest and describing examples including shares in corporation, interests or unit...
- American Criminal Law Review
- Vol. 47 Nbr. 2, March 2010
- False statements and false claims.
..., imposing an eight-year maximum for imprisonment if the offense involves the failure of a convicted...Examples of offense escalation include: (i) an increase of ...
- American Criminal Law Review
- Vol. 46 Nbr. 2, March 2009
- Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983)
... crime would have been five years' imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. Respondent, however, was senten... and convictions for obtaining money under false pretenses, grand larceny, and third-offense drivin... The Sixth Amendment offers two good examples. A State is constitutionally required to provide a...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Flores-Figueroa v. United States, 556 U. S. (2009)
..., the judge must add two years’ imprisonment to the offender’s underlying sentence. §1028A(a... employment, Flores gave his employer a false name, birth date, and Social Security number, alon... Similar examples abound. If a child knowingly takes a toy that belo...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- USA v. Andrew Jackson Chitwood, (11th Cir. 2012)
... conviction for violating Georgia’s false imprisonment statute qualified as a crime of viole... presence of the enumerated offenses as examples implied that ACCA covered “only similar crimes, ...
- Federal Circuits