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