standard-of-care

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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…
25-6005 Sean D. Jones v. Kelly Strong, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied IFP inmate-rights medical-indifference negligence prison-healthcare standard-of-care treatment-delay (1) Did the failure by NP Tenorio ,failure to assure that the pl aintiff , Jones ,was seen by a specialist ,when the medication of which Tenorio had …
25A310 Ryan Thomas Thornton v. Ascension All Saints Hospital, et al. Wisconsin 2025-09-17 Presumed Complete hospital-negligence informed-consent medical-malpractice patient-rights sepsis standard-of-care Whether a hospital's alleged failure to timely diagnose and treat a patient's sepsis constitutes medical malpractice under state law and violates the …
24-1001 Cotter Corporation, et al. v. Nikki Steiner Mazzocchio, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-03-20 Pending CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) atomic-energy-act federal-preemption nuclear-safety price-anderson-act standard-of-care tort-liability Whether federal nuclear safety regulations preempt state tort standards of care in public liability actions
24-525 John L. Stanton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied Relisted (2) commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-prosecution medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase 'outside the usual course of his professional practice, other than for a legitimate medical purpose' under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can b…
24-137 Ronald Stuart Lubetsky v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-08-07 Denied commerce-clause controlled-substances criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process medical-practice standard-of-care statutory-interpretation Whether the phrase to measure authorization under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) can be applied in the disjunctive
23-7538 Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park Ninth Circuit 2024-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-discretion medical-care medical-malpractice qualified-immunity standard-of-care summary-judgment Did the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming Summary Judgment When There Is Evidence of Deliberate Indifference of Dr. Park?
23-6673 Lillian Akwuba v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substance criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-element jury-instruction jury-instructions medical-care mens-rea standard-of-care Whether the stringent harmless error language from Neder applies to Ruan-based jury instruction error?
22-1007 Jericho Baptist Church Ministries, Inc., Jericho DC v. Bank of America, N.A. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived account-control banking-negligence breach-of-contract business-account expert-testimony litigation-between-factions litigation-knowledge standard-of-care Whether expert testimony is required in a banking negligence and breach-of-contract case when the bank's mishandling of a business account is open and…
21-7111 David Roy Worthy v. Corizon Medical Group, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-14 Denied IFP civil-rights delayed-diagnosis due-process government-liability informed-consent medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-harm patient-rights professional-liability standard-of-care Whether a delayed diagnosis of a medical problem that results in a patient's health condition worsening constitutes a cognizable injury under the Four…
21-1008 Andres Mencia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 GVR Relisted (2) criminal-conduct criminal-intent criminal-liability due-process expert-testimony good-faith-defense medical-practice medical-standard-of-care mens-rea prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-care Is the civil definition of standard of care sufficient to create criminal liability against physicians?
21-741 Thomas E. Parker, et al. v. Sea-Mar Community Health Center Ninth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied appointment-billing dental dental-services double-billing false-claims-act fraud healthcare-billing medicaid medicaid-fraud standard-of-care Does a plaintiff state a claim under the False Claims Act by alleging a purposeful scheme to fraudulently double rates charged to Medicaid for pediatr…
21-5208 Samuel W. Wani v. George Fox University, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion causation discovery discovery-violation expert-testimony fair-trial insurance-policy medical-malpractice medical-records standard-of-care Wani's failure to provide expert testimony regarding the standard of care and causation
20-7934 John Patrick Couch v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-05-05 GVR Relisted (6)IFP affirmative-defense controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions medical-practice standard-of-care Did the trial court err by conflating the valid defense of a crime as an element of that crime in its jury instructions?
20-6378 Brenda L. White v. Wishard Hospital Seventh Circuit 2020-11-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP breach-of-trust equipment-failure medical-malpractice medical-negligence patient-rights patient-safety physical-therapy standard-of-care Whether a medical professional can be held liable for injuring a patient and abandoning them
20-6223 Brenda L. White v. Tavel Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied IFP duty-of-care medical-malpractice medical-negligence negligence patient-rights professional-accountability professional-liability remedial-damages standard-of-care Is it lawful for a medical professional to injure a patient and just walk away?
20-6222 Brenda L. White v. Yang Acupuncture, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied IFP damages medical-ethics medical-malpractice patient-consent patient-safety patient-trust professional-accountability professional-negligence standard-of-care unauthorized-treatment Is it lawful for a medical professional to injure a patient and just walk away?
20-217 Richard Balter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied expert-witness federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice proximate-cause standard-of-care virginia-medical-malpractice-act Does the Virginia Medical Malpractice Act's requirement apply to a medical malpractice claim under the Federal Tort Claims Act?
19-1313 Donovan Dave Dixon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response Waived controlled-substances controlled-substances-act criminal-liability drug-trafficking gonzalez-v-oregon medical-malpractice medical-practice mens-rea standard-of-care Whether juries must be instructed that the government must prove that a physician acted with the mens rea of intent as to issuing a prescription outsi…
19-740 Kayla Butts, Individually and on Behalf of Her Daughter, A. F., a Minor v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-52a evidence-consideration expert-testimony fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice standard-of-care standard-of-review trial-court-deference Did the Appellate court violate Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 52(a) when it failed to consider all of the evidence before the trial court, inserted…
19-6498 Andrea Rene'e Tootle v. Beaux Art Institute of Plastic Surgery, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abscess cellulitis civil-rights duty-of-care informed-consent medical-malpractice patient-harm plastic-surgery radiation-treatment standard-of-care surgical-consent tissue-expander Is defendant liable for harm, maime, disfigurement, misuse patient trust, use extreme care, practice outside the realm of plastic surgery, fail to per…
19-237 James R. LaFrieda, et ux. v. Nancy A. Gilbert Nevada 2019-08-22 Denied civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-50-b judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct jury-instructions jury-verdict professional-negligence proximate-cause punitive-damages standard-of-care statutory-interpretation trial-court-fact-finding Whether the Nevada Supreme Court erred in disregarding past Supreme Court decisions and declaring a state procedural rule ambiguous
19-5437 Ekaterini Alexopoulos v. Steven Goldsmith, P.A., et al. Florida 2019-08-02 Denied IFP district-court-error duty-to-control duty-to-control-third-person ethics-violation expert-witness federal-rules-of-evidence legal-malpractice rule-702 special-relation standard-of-care Whether the District Court erred in disallowing plaintiff's expert witness testimony regarding ethics violations and its irrelevance to this case whic…
18-927 Emmanuel I. Mekowulu v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-vagueness criminal-conduct criminal-law criminal-law-procedure due-process ex-post-facto expert-testimony procedural-default standard-of-care vagueness Whether the government's expert's after-the-fact opinion of the applicable standard of care of Florida Pharmacists is an ex post facto interpretation …
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…
18-337 County of Orange, California, et al. v. Mary Gordon, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Matthew Shawn Gordon, Deceased Ninth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 standard-of-care Whether a pretrial detainee's 'inadequate medical care' claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires a showing of a jail professional's subjective inte…