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Application to File Amici Curiae Brief and [Proposed] Brief of Amici Curiae for the Santa Clara County Independent Defense Counsel Office (“IDO”) in Support of Defendant and Petitioner Tony Hardin
Keywords adoelscent brain; brain development;; equal protection; racial disparities; behavior; socioeconomic disparities; diminished culpability; youth parole; youthful offender; LWOP; life without the possibility of parole; youthful offender parole; first degree murder(2023)
Application for Leave to File Amici Curiae Brief and Proposed Brief of Amici Curiae ACLU, ACLU of Northern California, et al., in Support of Petitioner Tony Hardin
Keywords youthful offender; race; mass incarceration; racial disparity; overincarceration; super predator myth; black youth; people of color; excessive sentences; death sentence; LWOP; felony murder; de facto life sentence; parole eligibility; strict scrutiny; Equal Protection; suspect classification; first degree murder(2023)
Fletcher v. Alaska
Keywords Juvenile sentencing; Eighth Amendment; Proportionality principle; juvenile justice reform; cruel and unusual punishment(2023)
[Proposed] Brief of the National Health Law Program, Autism Legal Resource Center, Bazelon Center, Harvard Law CHLPI, Center for Public Representation, DREDF, Health Law Advocates, National Autism Law Center, and The Kennedy Forum as Amici Curiae.
Keywords Mental health treatment; Raytheon health plan; Parity Act violation; disclosure requirements; adverse benefit determination; nonquantitative treatment limitations; mental health discrimination; pleading standards; benefit denial; health plan transparency(2022)
Fin. Fiduciaries, LLC v. Gannett Co.
Keywords financial advisor; mismanaging trust; SEC fines; elder abuse; financial exploitation; court findings; misconduct; fraud; embezzlement; defamation(2022)
Giannetti v. Batth
Keywords elders; negligence; wire transfers; cryptocurrency institutions; fraudulent indiviudal; bank employee; suspicious activity(2022)
In re Certification of a Question of Law
Keywords vulnerable adult; estate; financial exploitation; theft by exploitation(2022)
Opioid Overdose Deaths Among Formerly Incarcerated Persons and the General Population: North Carolina, 2000‒2018
(2022)
Neural substrates of substance use disorders
Keywords addiction; control; neuroimaging; prefrontal; salience; striatum; substance use disorder(2022)
Stimulant use disorder diagnosis and opioid agonist treatment dispensation following release from prison: a cohort study
Keywords Stimulant use disorder; Opioid use disorder; Opioid agonist treatment; Incarceration; Prison; Mental health; Polysubstance use(2022)
Biological aging processes underlying cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disease
Keywords Alzheimer’s disease; related dementias; cognitive decline; brain morphology; neuropathological protein accumulation; aging processes; autophagy; mitochondrial dysfunction; cellular senescence; epigenetics; cerebrovascular dysfunction(2022)
Polysubstance Use in Early Adulthood: Patterns and Developmental Precursors in an Urban Cohort
Keywords community; early adulthood; latent class; longitudinal; polysubstance use; risk factors; substance use(2022)
Specific polysubstance use patterns predict relapse among patients entering opioid use disorder treatment
Keywords Cocaine; Market basket; Opioid use disorder; Opioids; Polysubstance use; Repeated latent class analysis(2022)
Latent patterns of polysubstance use among people who use opioids: A systematic review
Keywords Latent class analysis; Opioid-related disorders; opioids; Polysubstance use; Review(2022)
Polysubstance Use Plays a Key Role in Midlife Structural Brain Alterations in Long-term Cannabis Users
Keywords Cannabis use; Polysubstance use; Brain function; Brain age(2022)