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

SCOTUSBlog

One of those exceptions is for physicians who operate under the statute’s registration scheme; registered doctors may prescribe controlled substances in accordance with rules promulgated by the attorney general.

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Argument analysis: Justices doubt FTC’s authority to compel monetary relief

SCOTUSBlog

Justice Samuel Alito – not the biggest fan of legislative history – read a lengthy statement from David Fitzgerald, who served as a litigation attorney for the FTC during the 1970 and 1980s. It seems that what you’re doing here is using it for something that has already happened.”

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Detailed Analysis of POCSO Act, 2012

LexForti

Nevertheless, in circumstances of this nature, the legal principle of “mens rea” ought to be looked at in order to facilitate better decision-making on both the side of the defendant and the plaintiff The POCSO Court in Bombay, while adjudicating the “ Satish Ragde vs. the State of Maharashtra (Criminal Appeal no.

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Order to show cause ends streak of no straight grants

At the Lectern

See: Writ petition advances to require electronic recording of some court proceedings for indigent litigants. ” The dissenter, however, said, “I agree with the majoritys analysis that the record of conviction conclusively establishes that Godlock acted with the requisite intent to kill (the mens rea).