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Subjective intent of wrongdoing required to convict doctors under 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. A mens rea requirement, the opinion holds, is essential to separate physicians’ “socially beneficial conduct” from criminal conduct.

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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.

Mens Rea 100
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‘Search Warrants Rot Law Enforcement’: Paper

The Crime Report

Apparently, Cook also adds that no video record of the botched raid exists, considering Attorney General Daniel Cameron says that most officers were not wearing their body cameras, and those that had them, had them turned off. Video provides much-needed proof for suppression hearings and civil damages claims,” Cook writes.

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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.”

Mens Rea 123
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In opioids “pill mill” case, justices grapple with physician intent

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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Larger March calendar includes high-stakes COVID insurance case

At the Lectern

2) Does state law preempt a local ordinance when both prohibit the same conduct and the state law has a mens rea component that the local ordinance does not? Sitting in her place is First District, Division Three, Court of Appeal Justice (and former Supreme Court staff attorney) Victor Rodriguez. 5th 93; see here.)

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Divided Supreme Court overturns mother’s conviction for her infant’s murder by the father

At the Lectern

” Regarding an issue that the court chose not to review, the Court of Appeal concluded the record on direct appeal did not support the mother’s argument that her trial attorney was constitutionally ineffective for failing to present a defense of intimate partner battering.