prescription-drugs

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5107 Myron Motley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-split law-enforcement medical-records prescription-data prescription-drugs privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure Whether patients hold a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment in prescription medication records
22-1180 Shire U.S., Inc., et al. v. Mark Blackburn Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-07 Denied Amici (1) drug-labeling fda-preapproval FDA-regulations federal-preemption pliva-v-mensing preemption prescription-drugs state-law-claim state-law-claims unilateral-change unilateral-label-changes Whether a state-law claim is preempted if it places a duty on a drug manufacturer to unilaterally change FDA-approved language that appears in the Hig…
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…
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…
21-6952 Sunrise Lee v. United States First Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process evidence-standard federal-court judgment-of-acquittal legal-sufficiency physician prescription-drugs Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside of the course of professional pract…
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…
19-1112 Stephanie Jones v. Jeremy Eder, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied Response Waived civil-rights fourth-amendment interstate-commerce-clause preemption prescription-drugs prescription-medication probable-cause search-and-seizure supremacy-clause warrantless-seizure Does the Fourth Amendment, the Supremacy Clause, or the Interstate Commerce Clause prohibit state actors from warrantlessly seizing the People and the…
19-1069 Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, et al. v. Painters and Allied Trades District Council 82 Health Care Fund, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-28 Denied Amici (3) article-iii-standing causation-theory class-action false-statements intervening-factors omissions prescription-drug prescription-drugs product-liability proximate-cause rico-act rico-claim standing Whether the chain of causation between a manufacturer's allegedly false or misleading statements or omissions and end payments for prescription drugs …
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(…
18-546 Brian E. Frosh, Attorney General of Maryland, et al. v. Association for Accessible Medicines Fourth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) commerce-clause consumer-protection dormant-commerce-clause drug-pricing extraterritoriality federalism generic-drugs prescription-drugs price-control price-gouging state-police-powers state-regulation Does the Commerce Clause prohibit a state from protecting consumer access to essential off-patent and generic prescription drugs by requiring manufact…
18-5611 Phillip Dewayne Stewart v. Ronald John Stukey Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expiration-date medication medication-expiration missed-medication prescription prescription-drugs standing Whether the expiration date of a doctor-prescribed pain medication should be extended to avoid missing a dose