ruan-standard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6204 Ronald P. Hargrave v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error prescription-error ruan-standard Can a physician be convicted of a violation of 21 U.S.C. §841, post-Ruan, when that physician's conduct in prescribing the controlled substance was bo…
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…
23A734 Dalibor Kabov and Berry Kabov v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-07 Presumed Complete brady-challenge controlled-substances drug-distribution ninth-circuit ruan-standard supreme-court-precedent Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly applied the Supreme Court's Ruan decision by vacating only some drug convictions and refusing to apply the 'knowi…
23-6130 Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on the plain error standard is contrary to Supreme Court precedents, including Ruan and Henderson
23-6062 Holli Womack v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Is the Sixth Circuit's draconian view of the plain-error standard contrary to this Court's precedents, including Henderson-v-United-States?
22-84 Saad Sakkal v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-28 GVR controlled-substances-act conviction-appeal criminal-law due-process jury-instruction physician-conviction ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states scienter statutory-interpretation Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand a judgment sustaining the conviction of a physician under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1)