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 | I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit erroneously refused to apply the Ruan v. United States ruling to Dr. Cleveland Enmon's case. II. Whether 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 | As per Honorable Justice Breyer's opinion in the new United States Supreme Court ruling XIULU RUAN v. UNITED STATES No. 20-1410. Argued March 1, 2022 … | |
| 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 | 1. Whether a non-physician may be convicted of conspiring with a physician to prescribe controlled substances outside 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 | 1. Whether a physician who prescribes a controlled substance to a patient for reasons other than medical care has unlawfully "dispensed" the substance… |