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Meeting of the Minds: The Price of Recklessness: Disgorgement of Pro?ts in a Post-Romag World

The IP Law Blog

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

SCOTUSBlog

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.

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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

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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