491 U.S. 440 (1989) Cited 803 times 16 Legal Analyses
Holding that plaintiff advocacy organizations' inability to obtain information that Congress made subject to disclosure under the Federal Advisory Committee Act "constitutes a sufficiently distinct injury to provide standing to sue"
Holding it would be absurd not to apply Fed.R.Evid. 609, which authorizes impeachment of witness's credibility using specified categories of criminal convictions, to civil as well as criminal defendants
21 U.S.C. § 841 Cited 94,554 times 148 Legal Analyses
In § 841 prosecutions, then, it is the fact that the doctor issued an unauthorized prescription that renders his or her conduct wrongful, not the fact of the dispensation itself.