Nivagen Pharm., Inc. v. Hikma Pharm. USA Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding receipt crime was “morally turpitudinous because knowledge is a requisite element . . . and corrupt scienter is the touchstone of moral turpitude”
• holding receipt crime was “morally turpitudinous because knowledge is a requisite element . . . and corrupt scienter is the touchstone of moral turpitude”
• noting that the “BIA[’s] . . . long-standing position [is] that, where knowledge is a necessary element of a crime under a particular criminal statute, moral turpitude inheres in that crime”
• “[C]ourts owe no deference to an agency’s interpretation of state or federal criminal laws, because the agency is not charged with the administration of such laws.”
• \Among the tests to determine if a crime involves moral turpitude is whether the act is accompanied by a vicious motive or a corrupt mind.\
• “Among the tests to determine if a crime involves moral turpitude is whether the act is accompanied by a vicious motive or a corrupt mind.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).