SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

In arguing a subjective standard is required, the charged doctors and other advocates emphasized longstanding rules about the presumption of mens rea (a guilty state of mind) for criminal offenses. A mens rea requirement, the opinion holds, is essential to separate physicians’ “socially beneficial conduct” from criminal conduct.

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Mens Rea Government Criminal Law Statute 88

SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 2, 2022

The government argues the intent standard is an objective one — an “honest effort” to comply with professional norms. The government’s burden of proof also was the subject of much back and forth, even though it was not a major component of the briefing. Lawrence Robbins argues on behalf of petitioner Xiulu Ruan.

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Mens Rea Government Statute Court 97

JURIST

APRIL 15, 2024

When, if ever, does a person “corruptly” solicit or offer a gift with intent to influence government action? That question kept Colleen Sinzdak, counsel for the US government, busy for almost all of her argument before the US Supreme Court earlier today. Her response: a person behaves corruptly when they know they are doing wrong.

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Statute Government Lawyers Lawyer 129

The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

The Supreme Court first looked to the section of the Lanham Act governing remedies for trademark violations, 15 U.S.C. While the argument that “principles of equity” includes a willfulness requirement would not “directly contradict the statute’s other, express mens rea provisions or render them wholly superfluous[,].

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Manufacturing Mens Rea Contract Tort 52

LexForti

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This culminated to the passage of the Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences Act, and there was a new inclusion to Article 15 clause (3) asserting upon the Government’s authority to enact specific statutory requirement for protection of minors. Both of these modifications were assessed to be crucial.

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Statute Mens Rea Court Legal 52

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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Mens Rea Criminal Law Lawyer Lawyers 40