medical-ethics

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-6957 Toni Marie Davis v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-autonomy civil-rights consent constitutional-rights due-process government-overreach medical-ethics nuremberg-codes vaccine-mandate voluntary-consent Did the President including the federal government violate the Constitution and other federal and state laws by mandating an experimental vaccine?
22-6899 Rosalyn McDonald-Henry v. Dale S. Brink, et al. Illinois 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process experimental-procedure informed-consent medical-ethics medical-procedures medical-teaching newman-v-spellberg patient-rights standing substantive-due-process teaching-subject Whether the substantive Due Process Clause subsumes a constitutionally protected right to refuse experimental medical procedures
22-6577 Marcus Brent Fields v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process housing-policy medical-ethics prison-conditions prisoner-rights segregation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when he was injected with the harmful Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine against his will
22-626 Hazem M. Hamdan, et al. v. Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, et al. Minnesota 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty informed-consent medicaid-regulations medical-ethics medicare-medicaid patient-rights Are complainants to the Minnesota Board of Dentistry entitled to statutory due-process?
21-7834 Anne P. Mulligan v. Johnna Kohl Alaska 2022-05-11 Denied IFP billing-practices charity-care medicaid-fraud medical-billing medical-ethics patient-privacy physician-ethics tax-deduction tax-deductions Can a physician legally obtain a patient's Medicaid information without the patient's knowledge and bill Medicaid?
20-1434 Leslie Rutledge, Attorney General of Arkansas, et al. v. Little Rock Family Planning Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-04-13 GVR Amici (8)Relisted (2) abortion abortion-rights civil-rights disability down-syndrome due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-ethics prenatal-diagnosis selective-abortion state-prohibition Whether the Fourteenth Amendment bars States from prohibiting abortions that are sought solely because of a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome
20-1410 Xiulu Ruan v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-07 Judgment Issued Amici (8)Relisted (5) controlled-substances criminal-conviction criminal-liability good-faith-defense medical-ethics medical-prescribing prescription professional-practice statutory-interpretation Whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice may be convicted under Section …
20-651 Cook Children's Medical Center v. T. L., a Minor, et al. Texas 2020-11-13 Denied Amici (1) civil-liability civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hospital-review internal-review-process medical-ethics section-1983 state-action texas-advance-directives-act Whether private doctors who discontinue private care for a private patient at a private hospital are state actors for invoking a state law's internal-…
20-6222 Brenda L. White v. Yang Acupuncture, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied IFP damages medical-ethics medical-malpractice patient-consent patient-safety patient-trust professional-accountability professional-negligence standard-of-care unauthorized-treatment Is it lawful for a medical professional to injure a patient and just walk away?
20-539 Oregon, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Granted Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act affordable-care-act healthcare-access medical-ethics patient-provider-communication reproductive-healthcare title-x Does the Final Rule violate appropriations statutes and the Affordable Care Act?
20-429 American Medical Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Granted Relisted (3) administrative-law affordable-care-act arbitrary-and-capricious family-planning free-speech hhs-rule medical-ethics patient-communication reproductive-health title-x Whether the Title X family planning program rule is arbitrary and capricious, violates the Title X appropriations act, and violates the Affordable Car…
20-5707 Ruth Ellen Reeves v. Mark T. Esper, Secretary of Defense, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial institutional-abuse medical-ethics military-intervention patient-rights standing Is it legal for a court to render judgment on a case before the case is heard from the Plaintiff and/or the Defendants?
19-6162 Sean V. Terry v. Swift Transportation Fourth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-autonomy civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment medical-ethics medical-examination privacy privacy-violation regulations workplace-conduct Question not identified
18-1502 Brian Mark Burmaster v. Eli Lilly and Company Sixth Circuit 2019-06-03 Denied 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-marketing due-process free-speech government-action government-intervention government-overreach government-regulation medical-ethics pharmaceutical pharmaceutical-liability pharmaceutical-litigation sixth-amendment If a company's manufactured and marketed product is cited by the US Government as a 'miracle drug' to restore a criminal defendant's Sixth Amendment r…
18-7403 Keith Lamar Blackwell v. Charlie A. Dooley, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process informed-consent medical-care medical-ethics medical-licensing medical-practice patient-consent pharmacist-duties physician-duties physician-licensing professional-licensing state-regulations In the State of Missouri, can a licensed pharmacist redundantly practice medicine as to a physician's duties of professional judgment and perform phys…
18-97 Marion Liu, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Augustine Liu, Deceased v. Janssen Research & Development, LLC California 2018-07-23 Denied clinical-trials clinical-trials-regulation drug-safety duty-of-care duty-to-intervene federal-regulations human-subjects human-subjects-protection informed-consent medical-ethics medical-monitoring research-ethics Whether a drug company has a duty to stop a clinical study and refer a participant to medical care when it is aware the participant is suffering from …