medical-prescription
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-691 | Lonnie Joseph Parker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Denied | Response Waived | controlled-substances criminal-conviction federal-regulation medical-prescription prescribing-authority standard-of-care | Whether a doctor can be convicted of unlawfully prescribing controlled substances under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a) based on a de… |
| 24-5414 | Cleveland J. Enmon v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jury-instructions medical-prescription ruan-standard standard-of-review | Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously applied an objective standard in jury instructions for a physician's prescription case in light of the Ruan v… |
| 22-6211 | In Re Patricia Ann Solomon | 2022-12-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution heck-v-humphrey legitimate-purpose medical-prescription prescribing-authority prescription-drugs | Can Ms. Patricia Solomon, a physician assistant who never prescribed any drug, be convicted under 21 U.S.C. §846 in the Eastern District of Kentucky L… | |
| 21-994 | John Kapoor v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-01-13 | Denied | Relisted (2) | conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-law due-process evidence-standard judgment-of-acquittal medical-prescription physician-liability professional-practice sufficiency-of-evidence | Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside the course of professional practice |
| 20-7204 | Shane Faithful v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-distribution criminal-law federal-sentencing medical-care medical-prescription prescription-drugs sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation | Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully 'dispensed' the substance, u… |