Criminal Law Government Mens Rea 
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.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 28, 2022
Even in the midst of a historic opioid crisis, and an intensely fractured Supreme Court term, the justices found common ground in longstanding presumptions of criminal law and the core principle of physician discretion. Breyer’s majority opinion reaches essentially the same result, but puts a much higher burden on the government.
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SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Xiulu Ruan, one of the petitioners, was a board-certified interventional pain specialist who the government alleges operated an Alabama “pill mill” — a term used to describe doctors, clinics, or pharmacies that prescribe or dispense high volumes of powerful narcotics inappropriately.
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
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The JAMA editorial notes that there are few Park cases for two primary reasons: [The government] may lead. It’s a bedrock principle of criminal law that crimes require an actus reus (the prohibited act) and the requisite mens rea (mental state).
LexForti
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
This culminated to the passage of the Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences Act, and there was a new inclusion to Article 15 clause (3) asserting upon the Government’s authority to enact specific statutory requirement for protection of minors. Both of these modifications were assessed to be crucial.
The Crime Report
MAY 19, 2021
The order recognized that executive agencies have promulgated “thousands of regulations, creating a thicket of requirements that can be difficult to navigate,” and sought to make sure that all regulatory criminal laws are “clearly written so that all Americans can understand what is prohibited and act accordingly.”.
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