Legal Opinion
United States v. Ortega Lopez
District Court, C.D. California
Decided July 25, 1988No. CR 88-050-R, CR 88-087-RMT, CR 88-133-MRP, CR 88-007-TJH, CR 88-114-KN, CR 87-1034-CBM, CR 88-095-CBM, CR 87-998-PAR, CR 88-075-HLH, CR 87-1035-WJR, CR 88-109-FFF, CR 87-974-SVW, CR 87-986-SVW, CR 88-012-SVW, CR 88-117-SVW, CR 88-002-JSL, CR 88-005-JSL, CR 88-073-DT, CR 88-066-RSWL, CR 87-963-AAH, CR 87-992-DT and CR 87-1011-RJKPublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1509MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
HAUK, Senior District Judge.
Before this en banc panel of the Court are motions of the defendants in the above-captioned cases to declare the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (“Act”) and sentencing guidelines (“Guidelines”) promulgated thereunder by the United States Sentencing Commission (“Commission”) to be unconstitutional. This en banc panel was authorized by the Court in its Order of April 22, 1988, to determine the facial constitutionality of the Act and Guidelines by way of transferring this issue from each of the cases listed in the caption to the Court as a…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. ChadhaSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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