On Dec 27, 2021, AAPS, along with Jeffrey Singer, M.D., filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to reverse the unjust conviction of Dr. Xiulu Ruan. “The question presented, on which the circuits are deeply divided, is whether a physician alleged to have prescribed controlled substances outside the usual course […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of Dr. Vilasini Ganesh, who was denied the right to substitute counsel of her choosing and instead forced to stand trial with an unwanted lawyer. She is now serving a 63-month sentence in […]
On November 29, 2021 the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Vilasini Ganesh, MD. The brief reads in part: In this prosecution over a private billing dispute, unrelated to any federal programs such as Medicare or Medicaid or the quality of any […]
June 21, 2021 Update: AAPS files letter with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit – https://aapsonline.org/judicial/aaps-v-fda-hcq-06-21-2021.pdf December 17, 2020 Update: AAPS files Reply Brief with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit – https://aapsonline.org/judicial/aaps-v-fda-hcq-12-17-2020.pdf October 28, 2020 Update: AAPS files Appeal Brief with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit – […]
Uninsured and other self-pay patients are facing increasing difficulty filling legitimate prescriptions for medically-appropriate pain medications in part due to one-size-fits all rules being imposed by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. As Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D., submitted as President of AAPS in comments to HHS in March 2019: “[T]oo often the unintended consequences created by […]
April 2021 update: AAPS reply brief filed with 7th Circuit: https://aapsonline.org/aaps-v-abms-4-29-2021.pdf March 2021 update: AAPS files brief with 7th Circuit: https://aapsonline.org/aaps-v-abms-3-9-2021.pdf ——————————————– October 2020 update: AAPS files appeal with 7th Circuit: http://aapsonline.org/aaps-v-abms-10-21-2020.pdf ——————————————– November 2019 update: A status hearing was held on November 4, 2019. The judge indicated the potential for a decision to be […]
On Monday the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons filed its Petition for Writ of Mandamus with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on its lawsuit to end governmental interference with public access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). The Respondents include the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human […]
This week the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons submitted additional evidence to a federal court for why interference with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) should end by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), in AAPS v. FDA, No. 1:20-cv-00493-RJJ-SJB (W.D. Mich.). “As confirmed by another recent study of […]
Today the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons filed its motion for a preliminary injunction to compel release to the public of hydroxychloroquine by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), in AAPS v. HHS, No. 1:20-cv-00493-RJJ-SJB (W.D. Mich.). Nearly 100 million doses of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) were […]
After Blue Cross of California indicated that it would cover needed care for a patient enrolled in a plan it administered, the insurer refused to pay the patient’s neurosurgeon. This case is now on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and on August 18, 2019, AAPS submitted an amicus brief […]