Legal Opinion
Rutherford v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 19, 1980No. 77-2049PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SETH, Chief Judge.
The case was remanded by the Supreme Court by United States v. Rutherford, 544 U.S. 442, 99 S.Ct. 2470, 61 L.Ed.2d 68, with a reversal of our Rutherford v. United States, 582 F.2d 1234 (10th Cir.).
We had held that there was no measure or standard to permit the application of the “effective” requirement in the statute as to Laetrile as a cancer treatment by injection with a doctor’s recommendation for the terminally ill patient.
The Supreme Court in its opinion held that the “effectiveness” provision of the Act did apply regardless of whether the patient was terminally ill or…
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