No. 24-525

John L. Stanton v. United States

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2024-11-08
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Relisted (2) Experienced Counsel
Tags: commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation
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Latest Conference: 2025-03-07 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the phrase 'outside the usual course of his professional practice, other than for a legitimate medical purpose' under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive and if so, whether such application improperly exercises the Commerce Clause

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED The Circuits have applied vastly different interpretations of the ambiguous phrase “outside the usual course of his professional practice, other than for a legitimate medical purpose.” Ruan v. United States, 597 U.S. 450, 459 (2022); Gonzales v. Oregon, 546 U.S. 248, 258 (2006); United States v. Moore, 423 U.S. 122, 135 (1975). Circuits applying this phrase in the disjunctive have convicted physicians of a “knowing or intentional” deviation from an unenumerated “standard of care.” The questions presented are: Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive. If the phrase is applied in the disjunctive, whether the prosecution of a physician for a deviation of an unenumerated “standard of care” is an improper exercise of the Commerce Clause. Whether the phrase can be applied in the disjunctive to calculate drug weight.

Docket Entries

2025-03-10
Rehearing DENIED.
2025-02-19
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/7/2025.
2025-02-07
Petition of John L. Stanton, M.D. for rehearing submitted.
2025-02-07
2025-01-13
Petition DENIED.
2024-12-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025.
2024-12-23
Reply of John L. Stanton, M.D. submitted.
2024-12-23
2024-12-09
Memorandum of respondent United States filed.
2024-11-06
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 9, 2024)

Attorneys

John L. Stanton, M.D.
Ronald William Chapman IIChapman Law Group, Petitioner
Ronald William Chapman IIChapman Law Group, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent