When the U.S. Sentencing Commission speaks or writes, criminal practitioners and federal judges listen. An independent agency of the judicial branch created by Congress in the 1980s, it is composed of seven voting members, at least three of whom are federal judges. The U.S. Attorney General, or her designee, and the Chair of the U.S.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “adopt[ed] a bright-line rule [on January 11, 2018]: Section 1446(b)(3)’s removal clock begins ticking upon receipt of the deposition transcript” as opposed to running from the date of the deposition testimony. The decision in Morgan v. Huntington Ingalls, Inc., et al, No. 17-30523, __ F.3d __ (5th