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Brown v. Texas, 443 U.S. 47 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court determined that the defendant's arrest in El Paso, Texas, for a refusal to identify himself, after being seen and questioned in a high crime area, was not based on a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing and thus violated the Fourth Amendment.
Addington v. Texas, 441 U.S. 418 (1979), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that set the standard for involuntary commitment for treatment by raising the burden of proof required to commit persons for psychiatric treatment from the usual civil burden of proof of "preponderance of the evidence" to "clear and convincing evidence".
The purpose of the act was to make the law uniform in various states with respect to controlling the sale and use of narcotic drugs. [4] The Commissioners on Uniform State Laws intended to effectively safeguard and regulate narcotic drugs throughout all of the states. [1] Initially, only nine states adopted the uniform state statute.
A former Modesto doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of illegally prescribing opioid drugs and other medication. Sawtantra Chopra, 76, was prosecuted in the federal court in Fresno.
Powell v. Texas, 392 U.S. 514 (1968), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that a Texas statute criminalizing public intoxication did not violate the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The 5–4 decision's plurality opinion was by Justice Thurgood Marshall.
In a separate case involving the FDA, the Supreme Court on Dec. 2 is set to hear arguments over the agency's denial of applications to sell flavored vape products. (Reporting by John Kruzel ...
A gun was found in a stroller at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas. 2. A replica IED attached to a walkie talkie was found at El Paso International Airport.
There followed a long period of further litigation in the form of consent decrees, appeals and other legal actions, until a final judgment was rendered in 1992. [1] But problems in enforcement continued, and in 1996 U.S. Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) to address these issues as well as abuse of the prison litigation process.