| 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 |