JURIST

JUNE 12, 2021

had pleaded guilty to a felon-in-possession charge, and the government sought to apply the enhanced sentence under the ACCA. One of the three violent felonies the government alleged as a predicate to the ACCA charge was for reckless aggravated assault under Tennessee law. .” Petitioner Charles Borden Jr.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

The opinion is a victory for physicians prescribing innovative treatments that they believe serve legitimate medical purposes, and it should assuage concerns about a ruling that could have chilled more doctors from prescribing needed pain treatments. None of this is to say that the court has let pill mill doctors off the hook.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

The case came to the court after Charles Borden Jr. pleaded guilty to violating a federal law barring people convicted of a felony from possessing a firearm. At sentencing, the government sought an enhancement under the ACCA; it claimed that three of Borden’s prior felony convictions were violent felonies. Borden objected.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

21-5261, 597 U.S. _ (2022), the Supreme Court ruled that the government must prove — beyond a reasonable doubt — that a prescriber knew or intended that a prescription was not lawful in order to subject that prescriber to criminal penalties under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA). United States, No.

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