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9.631 documents for drug courts in florida

- The learned intermediary doctrine in Florida: courts wrestle with claimed exceptions to the doctrine in drug and device litigation.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The learned intermediary doctrine (LID) is a widely recognized defense in pharmaceutical failure-to-warn litigation. Under th...
- Florida Bar Journal
- Vol. 82 Nbr. 11, December 2008
- Sanctions and Rewards in Drug Court Programs: Implementation, Perceived Efficacy, and Decision Making
A key component of drug courts is the use of graduated sanctions and rewards to encourage compliance; however, little is known about how such systems are actually implemented. The current paper documents the specific behaviors that are sanctioned and rewarded and the sanctions and rewards used, perceptions of the efficacy of sanctions, the level of standardization in the application of sanctions and rewards, participants' understanding of the sanctioning system, and the decision-making process regarding sanctioning in five judicial circuits in Florida. Using qualitative data gathered from interviews with 86 key stakeholders and analyzed using NUD*IST software, we conducted comparisons between drug courts and traditional courts, as well as by respondent role (staff vs. offender). Our mai...
- Journal of Drug Issues
- Vol. 36 Nbr. 1, January 2006
- The First 20 Years of Drug Treatment Courts: A Brief Description of Their History and Impact
[...] judges, state's attorneys, and public defenders who specialize in drug cases become more proficient and efficient in all aspects of case processing; they improve at screening cases, using case information, presenting motions, submitting guilty pleas, and filing case dispositions (Belenko, Fagan, & Dumanovsky, 1994; Davis, Smith, & Lurigio, 1994). The first jurisdiction to implement a drug court was New York City; it created the court in 1974 in response to the enforcement of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws, which overwhelmed the state's criminal justice system with an unrelenting spate of drug cases throughout the 1970s (Belenko & Dumanovsky, 1993).

...Located in Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit, the court began heari...
- Federal Probation
- Vol. 72 Nbr. 1, June 2008

- PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing, 564 U.S. (2011)
...Five years after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved metoclopramid... WRITS OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURTS OFAPPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH AND FIFTH CIRCUITS [June ... [law] is a physical impossibility." Florida Lime &Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul, 373 U. S....
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Florida Government And Politics Weekly Update (Week Of March 7, 2011).
... program, and dismantling of the prescription drug database. The restructuring of the Florida Supremee Court would result in two five-member courts, one criminal branch and one civil branch. In orde...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Nbr. 2011, January 2011
- Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., 564 U.S. (2011)
...Pharmaceutical manufacturers promote their drugs to 2 SORRELL v. IMS HEALTH INC. Opinion of the Cou...Vopper, 532 . U. S. 514, 527 (2001); Florida Star v. B. J. F., 491 U. S.524 (1989); New York Ti...3d, at52-53. In contrast the courts below concluded that aprohibition on the sale o...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Prods and pleas: limited government in an era of unlimited harm.
... and adjudicating tort disputes, courts can, do, and should interact with the other branch.... (43.) Illicit drug policy is one context in which the legislative and.... (138.) In Florida Audubon Society v. Bentsen, 94 F.3d 658, 665-72 (D...
- Yale Law Journal
- Vol. 121 Nbr. 2, November 2011
- McNeill v. United States, 563 U.S. (2011)
... Career Criminal Act (ACCA), a priorstate drug-trafficking conviction is for a "serious drug offe... "is prescribed bylaw" requires federal courts to determine the maximumsentence for a potential p...), this Courtlooked to the versions of Florida's burglary and criminalattempt statutes that were ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Participants, Grads of Treatment Program Celebrates Success
By Janie Bryant The Virginian-Pilot

... participants and graduates of Portsmouth's Drug Treatment Court. They have exercised together, col... month to celebrate the success of drug courts around the country and Portsmouth pulls out all th...Drug Courts started in Florida 20 years ago, and there are about 28 in Virginia a...
- The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
- May 30, 2010
- Florida Government And Politics Weekly Update (Week Of March 7, 2011)
... program, and dismantling of the prescription drug database. The restructuring of the Florida Supremee Court would result in two five-member courts, one criminal branch and one civil branch. In orde...
- Mondaq Business Briefing
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