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Navigating Executive Orders and DOJ Memos That Threaten Criminal Prosecution

FDA Law

Additionally, courts have generally been even more receptive to pre-enforcement challenges to prosecution that impinges on First Amendment rights. First, the FDC Act is generally designed not to limit or interfere with the general practice of medicine. See United States v. Facteau , 89 F.4th 4th 1, 22-26 (1st Cir.