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The document discusses three court cases related to the retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) which reduced penalties for crack cocaine offenses. In US v. Fisher and US v. Bell, the courts found that the FSA did not apply retroactively based on the general savings statute. In US v. Neadeau, the court rejected the argument that a 20-year mandatory minimum sentence for crack cocaine violated the 8th Amendment, noting the FSA was not retroactive. In US v. Douglas, the court ruled tha

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