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. The case, Ruan v. The question was whether a doctor’s subjective intent in prescribing matters.

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2024

Gijs de Bra is a JURIST Assistant Editor and SCOTUS special correspondent, and a 2L at Cornell Law School. The party briefs mostly focused on the word “rewarded” in the statute. Justice Kagan asked if the required mental state in the statute helps to alleviate that concern. 666(a)(1)(B) applies to gratuities as well as bribes.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 2, 2022

Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett pressed both sides on where the standard for the exception comes from, noting that the phrases “good faith” and “honest effort” appear nowhere in the statute and that the entirety of the exception, which likewise does not specify an intent standard, is the product of regulation.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

At the Supreme Court, Romag argued that requiring willfulness for a profits award “flouts the plain text of section 35(a) and undermines the broader policies of the Lanham Act,” and is a “serious misinterpretation of federal law” that should not be allowed to stand. 7 While the statute makes willfulness a prerequisite to a pro?ts

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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.

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