Weiss v. Vacca

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that duress requires a showing that there was no opportunity to refuse the criminal act and avoid the threatened harm
• holding that the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act imposed “a duty to implement measures that will insure that violations will not occur”
• holding that an executive who failed to remedy a contamination-causing rodent infestation in his company's food warehouse could be held criminally liable without proof of mens rea
• indicating that “ ‘a single instruction to a jury may not be judged in artificial isolation, but must be viewed in the context of the overall charge’ ” (citation omitted)
• explaining that corporate officers may be held liable for failing to \devise whatever measures are necessary to ensure compliance with the [FDCA]\
• explaining that, by the same logic, a defendant’s “powerlessness” to prevent or correct the violation may be raised as a valid defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).