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Amid overdose crisis, court will weigh physician intent in “pill mill” prosecutions and more under the Controlled Substances Act

SCOTUSBlog

They also argue that Congress, elsewhere in the CSA, meaningfully deviated from the “knowingly or intentionally” language to impose a lower standard for certain actions undertaken “knowingly or recklessly,” thereby showing that Congress knew how to criminalize merely reckless behavior when it wanted to.

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No Walk in the Park: JAMA Editorial Calls for More Park Prosecutions; We Disagree

FDA Law Blog

We note our prior writings on the subject, which extend to five pages of posts , We note further that the JAMA editorial cites our own John Fleder , which makes sense since John is one of the foremost experts on Park liability from his time at the Department of Justice’s Office of Consumer Litigation as well as private practice with our firm.

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Detailed Analysis of POCSO Act, 2012

LexForti

Nevertheless, in circumstances of this nature, the legal principle of “mens rea” ought to be looked at in order to facilitate better decision-making on both the side of the defendant and the plaintiff The POCSO Court in Bombay, while adjudicating the “ Satish Ragde vs. the State of Maharashtra (Criminal Appeal no.

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