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

SCOTUSBlog

The government, in turn, focuses on the structure of the CSA — the words denoting mens rea, “knowingly or intentionally,” come after the exception clause at issue and so, the government argues, do not apply to it.

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

FDA Law Blog

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 editorial conflates a number of distinct but related principles of law and federal prosecution.

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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

Considering the importance of Chinese manufacturing to global trade, the Chinese legal system and its evolving trademark enforcement system will likely cause companies to get creative. But even if the Court put aside these issues, its own survey of the case law was less convincing than Fossil would have had the Court believe.

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Detailed Analysis of POCSO Act, 2012

LexForti

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.

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