medical-practice
24 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6751 | Jeffrey W. Young, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-02-06 | Pending | IFP | appellate-review controlled-substances drug-distribution medical-practice regulatory-definition subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the lower federal court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the defendant, who was an authorized practitioner with the authority to admini… |
| 24A778 | Frank H. Bynes, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Presumed Complete | controlled-substances criminal-intent drug-distribution healthcare-fraud medical-practice prescription-fraud | Whether a physician's prescription of controlled substances outside the usual course of professional medical practice constitutes a knowing and intent… | |
| 24-525 | John L. Stanton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation | 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 b… |
| 24-488 | Fadi Georges Ghanem v. Texas | Texas | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process felony-penalties fourteenth-amendment legal-framework medical-practice state-courts | Whether state laws criminalizing medical practice through felony penalties that create an unworkable legal framework violate the Due Process Clause of… |
| 24-137 | Ronald Stuart Lubetsky v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-07 | Denied | commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation | Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive | |
| 23-7096 | Ethel Oyekunle-Bubu v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substances criminal-law medical-practice medical-practitioner prescription-standards professional-practice professional-standards ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow Ruan v. United States by holding that a registered medical practitioner or pharmacist can be convicted for … |
| 23A427 | Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Presumed Complete | administrative-enforcement antitrust appellate-review ftc-act medical-practice statutory-authority | Whether the Federal Trade Commission's administrative enforcement action against a medical practice for alleged anticompetitive conduct exceeds its st… | |
| 23-238 | Roger Dale Anderson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-09-12 | Denied | comport with the Supreme Court's holding in Ruan which did not explicitly reference the Controlled controlled-substances-act criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions medical-practice medical-professional-liability mens-rea statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that jury instructions were sufficient despite lack of reference to the CSA's 'authorization' requirement | |
| 23-5303 | Jeanne Germeil v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-procedure expert-testimony good-faith jury-instructions medical-practice ruan-v-united-states | Whether the United States Supreme Court's Decision in Ruan v. United States Warrants Certiorari Review of the Court's Refusal to Instruct the Jury on … |
| 22-1175 | Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-05 | Denied | Amici (3) | agency-rulemaking controlled-substances-act criminal-conviction federal-agency felony-offense jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-practice prescription-authority statutory-interpretation | Whether 21 C.F.R. § 13806.04(a) may replace the 'except as authorized' requirement in a Controlled Substances Act jury instruction, thereby permitting… |
| 22-6503 | Patrick Emeka Ifediba v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-10 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment intent medical-intent medical-practice sentencing sixth-amendment | Was Petitioner denied his rights under Ruan v. United States |
| 22-5075 | Courtney Newman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-07-12 | GVR | IFP | controlled-substances criminal-intent criminal-law health-care jury-instruction medical-practice prescription-drugs prescription-law ruan-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | Whether an authorized physician or health care professional can be convicted under 21-U.S.C-§856(a)(1) if the sole allegation of unlawful activity is … |
| 21-8148 | Frank H. Bynes Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-06-15 | GVR | IFP | controlled-substances criminal-law due-process medical-practice prescription-drugs professional-ethics | Whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice can be convicted of unlawful di… |
| 21-1418 | Medardo Queg Santos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-04 | GVR | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | controlled-substances expert-testimony good-faith good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-purpose relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines | Whether a physician's good faith is a complete defense to a prosecution for prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose or … |
| 21-1008 | Andres Mencia v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-20 | GVR | Relisted (2) | criminal-conduct criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process expert-testimony good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-standard-of-care mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care | Is the civil definition of standard of care sufficient to create criminal liability against physicians? |
| 21-5086 | Frank Craig Purpera, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-intent criminal-law good-faith jury-instructions lawful-practice medical-malpractice medical-practice professional-ethics professional-standard subjective-intent subjective-standard | Whether a physician alleged to have acted outside the 'lawful course of professional practice' is entitled to a good faith instruction defining good f… |
| 20-7934 | John Patrick Couch v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-05-05 | GVR | Relisted (6)IFP | affirmative-defense controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions medical-practice standard-of-care | Did the trial court err by conflating the valid defense of a crime as an element of that crime in its jury instructions? |
| 20-1480 | George P. Naum, III v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-04-22 | GVR | Relisted (6) | 21-cfr-1306-04 21-usc-841 controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice opioid-prescription professional-standards statutory-interpretation united-states-v-moore | Can the elements of 21 U.S.C. §841(a)(1) as defined in United States v. Moore, 423 U.S. 122 (1975) requiring the Government to prove unlawful distribu… |
| 20-1283 | Margaret Temponeras v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split controlled-substances-act criminal-liability medical-boards medical-practice pain-management pharmaceutical-companies prosecutorial-discretion vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Whether 21 U.S.C. § 841 and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04 are unconstitutionally vague whereas the term 'legitimate medical purpose' does not provide fair notic… |
| 19-1313 | Donovan Dave Dixon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | Response Waived | controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-liability drug-trafficking gonzalez-v-oregon medical-malpractice medical-practice mens-rea standard-of-care | Whether juries must be instructed that the government must prove that a physician acted with the mens rea of intent as to issuing a prescription outsi… |
| 19-7797 | Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process medical-necessity medical-practice medical-purpose prescription-dispensing prescription-drugs professional-practice statutory-interpretation | Whether the Court of Appeals erred by holding a jury could rationally conclude that defendant pharmacist abdicated his duty under §§ 1306.04(a) & 841(… |
| 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… |
| 18-7264 | Joel E. Miller v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-liability drug-trafficking gonzales-v-oregon jury-instructions medical-malpractice medical-practice medical-practitioner prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care united-states-v-moore | Whether the phrase 'issued for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of his professional practice' mus… |
| 18-427 | Masoud Bamdad v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | agency-policy controlled-substances court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure defective-indictment due-process fed.r.civ.p.-54(b) final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings interstate-commerce jurisdiction medical-practice procedural-rules | Whether a habeas court must adjudicate all claims of a habeas petitioner before making a final judgment and closing the case, or else the judgment is … |