JURIST
MARCH 6, 2025
The court further held that Article 41(3) of the 2020 China-imposed National Security Law did not intend to make the offense indictable because it would “involve an unnecessary drain on judicial resources and introduce unwelcome procedural complications associated with a trial on indictment.”
JURIST
MAY 30, 2024
The prosecution stated that the defendants agreed to veto government budgets if they obtained a majority in the 2020 Legislative Council election to force Lam to address the “Five Demands Not One Less” demand, which included demands such as repealing the now-withdrawn extradition bill and for Lam to resign as Chief Executive.
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SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
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. And while criminal prosecutions relating to the crisis have garnered fewer headlines, they are still significant.
FDA Law Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
The Second Circuit’s Interpretation of the AKS and its Mens Rea Element. The Court instead interpreted the term, as used in the AKS, to mean an intentional violation of a known legal duty, but concluded that “the mens rea element goes no further.” Pfizer appealed to the Second Circuit, which again ruled against Pfizer.
FDA Law Blog
AUGUST 4, 2022
The Court instead concluded that the term, as used in the AKS, is “more accurately understood as a voluntary, intentional violation of a known legal duty…the mens rea element goes no further” (internal quotations omitted). OIG disagreed.
JURIST
OCTOBER 30, 2022
Every clause in the blasphemy law was modified or changed when Zia was leader, and the intent or mens rea requirement was completely removed. Human Rights Without Frontiers reports that 1,860 people were accused of blasphemy between 1987 and August 2021, with 200 cases filed in 2020, which indicates a sharp rise.
The Crime Report
JANUARY 6, 2022
When 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, was shot and killed by Louisville police officers in March 2020 during a botched raid on her apartment, the country was collectively “traumatized” — particularly marginalized communities. Without video footage, everything becomes someone’s word against another.
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