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Fadi Georges Ghanem v. Texas

Paid petition · Court of Appeals of Texas, Thirteenth District, No. 13-22-00447-CR · judgment January 11, 2024


Certiorari denied · December 9, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 2% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

Should state laws that criminalize the practice of medicine by imposing felony penalties on physicians— based on an unworkable legal framework that makes lawful compliance impossible—be considered unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, particularly when state courts are divided on the constitutionality of such laws?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Tommy Ernest Swate
Attorney at Law

For respondent
William J. Delmore III
Montgomery County District Attorney's Office

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Dec 09 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Nov 19 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/6/2024.
  3. Nov 15 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent The State of Texas to respond filed.
  4. Oct 25 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 2, 2024)