Webb v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued January 16, 1919
Decided March 3, 1919

Full case name

Webb, et al. v. United States

Citations

39 S. Ct. 217; 63 L. Ed. 497; 1919 U.S. LEXIS 2230; 17 Ohio L. Rep. 88

Court membership

Chief Justice Edward D. White

Associate Justices Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes, Jr. William R. Day · Willis Van Devanter Mahlon Pitney · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · John H. Clarke

Case opinions

Majority

Day, joined by Holmes, Pitney, Brandeis, Clarke

Dissent

White, joined by McKenna, Van Devanter, McReynolds

Webb v. United States, 249 U.S. 96 (1919), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that prescriptions of narcotics for maintenance treatment was not within the discretion of physicians and thus not privileged under the Harrison Narcotics Act.^[1]

References

↑ Bonnie, R.J. et al. Criminal Law, Second Edition. Foundation Press, New York: 2004, p. 263

External links

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