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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

Report Prepared by Laurence Steinberg, Ph.d.

Report Or Affidavit of Joan W. Mayfield, Ph.d., A.b.n., A.b.pd,n.

Declaration Supporting Allocation of State Funds for Professional Services Re: Evaluation of Suspected Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (fasd) of Natalie Novick Brown, Phd