McFadden v. United States

McFadden v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 21, 2015 Decided June 18, 2015
Full case name	Stephen Dominick McFadden, Petitioner v. United States
Docket no.	14-378
Citations	576 U.S. 186 (more) 135 S. Ct. 2298; 192 L. Ed. 2d 260
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	United States v. McFadden, 15 F. Supp. 3d 668 (W.D. Va. 2013); affirmed, 753 F.3d 432 (4th Cir. 2014); cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 2298 (2015).
Holding
Under §841(a)(1) of the Controlled Substances Act, the government must prove the defendant knew he was dealing with a controlled substance when it is an analogue. United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated and remanded.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Thomas, joined by Scalia, Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan
Concurrence	Roberts (in part)
Laws applied
Controlled Substances Act Federal Analogue Act

McFadden v. United States, 576 U.S. 186 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that section 841 of the Controlled Substances Act requires the government to prove that to be in criminal violation, a defendant must be aware that an analogue defined by the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act with which he was dealing was a controlled substance.