UNITED STATES v. GREEN

Nos. 74-1428, 74-1433, 74-1435, 74-1420 and 74-1468.

511 F.2d 1062 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Clifford T. GREEN et al., Defendants-Appellants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PAY MING LEU, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 27, 1975.

Rehearing Denied March 18, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald M. Werksman, R. Eugene Pincham, Sidney S. Altman, George Kita, Bernard B. Brody, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

James R. Thompson, U. S. Atty., Gary L. Starkman and Gordon B. Nash, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge, and STEVENS and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges.


SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated appeals raise the same principal issue: whether indictments against physicians and a pharmacist (registrants under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq.) for the dispensing or distributing of controlled substances pursuant to prescriptions allegedly issued without a legitimate medical purpose or outside the usual course of professional practice, properly charge crimes under 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)

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