Doctors’ Pill Mill Convictions Get U.S. Supreme Court Review

A pair of doctors convicted of running pill mills convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to take a look at their cases.

The question the justices agreed to take up Friday is whether Xiulu Ruan’s and Shakeel Kahn’s convictions can stand without the trial court considering their good faith defense of whether they “reasonably believed” or “subjectively intended” that their prescriptions were within the course of professional practice.

Ruan was sentenced to 21 years for distributing opioids and other controlled substances out of a pain management clinic. He was ordered to pay millions in restitution. Kahn was sentenced to 25 years. ...