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Saad Sakkal v. United States
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 20-3880 · judgment May 31, 2023
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
The question presented here is whether, in a jury instruction under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq., language taken from an agency regulation (in particular, 21 C.F.R. § 1306.04(a)) may replace the statutory requirement, imposed by Section 841(a)(1), that a physician may be convicted as a drug dealer only if she knowingly or intentionally prescribed without “authorization.” This is the same question presented in the pending petition in Xiulu Ruan and John Patrick Couch v. United States, No. 22-1175. The present case should therefore be held for the disposition of the Ruan petition and thereafter resolved in accordance with the Court’s disposition of that case.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Saad Sakkal
For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General
Proceedings
- Mar 24 2025Rehearing DENIED.
- Mar 05 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/21/2025.
- Feb 25 2025Application (24A820) to file petition for rehearing in excess of page limits granted by Justice Kavanaugh. The petition for rehearing may not exceed 140 pages.
- Feb 28 2024Application (24A820) to file petition for rehearing in excess of page limits, submitted to Justice Kavanaugh.
- Jan 31 2024Petition for Rehearing filed.
- Jan 31 2024Motion for leave to proceed further herein in forma pauperis.
- Jan 08 2024Petition DENIED.
- Dec 20 2023DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2024.
- Dec 14 2023Reply of petitioner Saad Sakkal filed.
- Dec 06 2023Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
- Nov 03 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including December 6, 2023.
- Nov 02 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 9, 2023 to December 6, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
- Oct 05 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including November 9, 2023.
- Oct 04 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 11, 2023 to November 9, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
- Sep 07 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 11, 2023.
- Sep 06 2023Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 11, 2023 to October 11, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
- Aug 07 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 11, 2023)