Legal Opinion
Woods v. U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin.
District Court, W.D. Tennessee
Decided September 26, 2017No. 1:16–cv–01289–STA–egbPublished
1Opinion of the Court
S. THOMAS ANDERSON, CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
In this action for injunctive relief and a declaratory judgment, Petitioners John Woods, M.D., and Tom McDonald, M.D., seek to prevent Respondents from enforcing 21 C.F.R. § 1301.76(a) against them with respect to their current or future employment as physicians with access to controlled substances. Petitioners decry what they claim to be Respondents' arbitrary enforcement. But in doing so, Petitioners force a confrontation with a fundamental principle of our Constitution's separation of powers-this Court's very authority to resolve the…
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