medical-practitioner

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 …
21-6736 Steven R. Henson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-12-28 GVR Relisted (2)IFP actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate review w…
21-762 Lena Lasher v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) brady-violation criminal-prosecution good-faith-defense medical-practitioner medical-practitioners misbranding pharmacist prescription prescription-validity scope-of-practice Mens rea-requirement-for-misbranding
20-1594 Murray Rojas v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-18 GVR Amici (1) criminal-statute drug-dispensing drug-regulation fdca federal-criminal-law federal-state-balance federalism lenity medical-practitioner statutory-interpretation young-v-united-states Whether the FDCA's felony prohibitions on 'dispensing' drugs reach the administering of drugs by practitioners, which has been left to state and local…
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…