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Brown v. United States
Keywords Insanity defense; narcotics charges; addiction; court assistance; legal aid; D.C. Circuit; reversed and remanded; drug addiction defense; mental health defense; criminal appeal(1964)
Castle v. United States
Keywords Insanity defense; duress; addiction; criminal responsibility; legal insanity; D.C. Circuit; jury; conviction; appeal; affirmation(1964)
People v. Ortiz
Keywords heroin conviction; police entry; legal justification; illegal search and seizure; due process; exclusionary rule; Fourth Amendment(1964)
In re De La O
Keywords narcotic addict; civil commitment; drug users; treatment; chronic drug use; punishment(1963)
Robinson v. California
Keywords 8th Amendment; 14th Amendment; addiction; criminalizing addiction(1962)
Buck v. Bell
Keywords Virginia; forced sterilization; constitutionality; intellectual disability; incorrigibility(1927)
Linder v. United States
Keywords medical practice; addiction treatment; Harrison Narcotics Act(1925)
United States v. Behrman
Keywords Harrison Narcotics Act; morphine; addict; prescribing; criminal intent; bad faith(1922)
Webb v. United States
Keywords maintenance; medical practice; addiction treatment; Harrison Narcotics Act(1919)
United States v. Doremus
Keywords Harrison Narcotics Act; opioid distribution; taxation(1919)
Amicus Curiae Letter in Support of Petition for Review in Chelsea Becker v. Superior Court
Keywords pregnancy loss; stillbirth; substance use during pregnancy; criminal prosecution; prenatal care; substance use disorder
Brief of Amici Curiae Center for Constitutional Rights, Transgender Law Center, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Make the Road New York et al. in Support of Respondents
Keywords Homelessness; criminalization of poverty; Eighth Amendment; cruel and unusual punishment; affordable housing crisis; public sleeping bans