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JURIST
JUNE 12, 2021
had pleaded guilty to a felon-in-possession charge, and the government sought to apply the enhanced sentence under the ACCA. One of the three violent felonies the government alleged as a predicate to the ACCA charge was for reckless aggravated assault under Tennessee law. .” Petitioner Charles Borden Jr.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2022
Even in the midst of a historic opioid crisis, and an intensely fractured Supreme Court term, the justices found common ground in longstanding presumptions of criminal law and the core principle of physician discretion. Breyer’s majority opinion reaches essentially the same result, but puts a much higher burden on the government.
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FDA Law Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
In June 2019, Pfizer sought an OIG advisory opinion to ensure that its proposal would not run afoul of federal law. Pfizer challenged the OIG’s interpretation as contrary to law in a lawsuit brought in the Southern District of New York (SDNY). The Second Circuit’s Interpretation of the AKS and its Mens Rea Element.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Xiulu Ruan, one of the petitioners, was a board-certified interventional pain specialist who the government alleges operated an Alabama “pill mill” — a term used to describe doctors, clinics, or pharmacies that prescribe or dispense high volumes of powerful narcotics inappropriately.
FDA Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
While the authors did a yeoman’s job of combing through the criminal cases to identify what they view as a “handful” of cases and call for increased use of the Park doctrine, we at the FDA Law Blog respectfully disagree. The JAMA editorial notes that there are few Park cases for two primary reasons: [The government] may lead.
LexForti
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Teesha Deb (National Law University, Orissa). The author is associated to the National Law University, Orissa. Before establishment of this statute, there was the absence of any special law which could be entirely designated for the offenses perpetrated against minors. INTRODUCTION. These are all examples of such situations.
The Crime Report
MAY 19, 2021
The order recognized that executive agencies have promulgated “thousands of regulations, creating a thicket of requirements that can be difficult to navigate,” and sought to make sure that all regulatory criminal laws are “clearly written so that all Americans can understand what is prohibited and act accordingly.”.
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