# Lambert v. Yellowley, 272 U.S. 581 (1926)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/scotus-lambert-v-yellowley-1926/

The Supreme Court upheld, 29 November 1926, the National Prohibition Act's limit on how much spirituous liquor a physician could prescribe. Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt heads the counsel line for the appellees.

Argued April 30, 1926, decided November 29, 1926; No. 47. In an opinion by Justice Brandeis, the Court upheld the National Prohibition Act's limit of a pint of spirituous liquor for one patient in ten days on a physician's prescription, against a challenge by a New York physician, and affirmed.

The counsel line reads: "Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell and Mr. Mahlon D. Kiefer, Attorney in the Department of Justice, were on the brief, for appellees." The case is filed for that line.

## Sources

- CourtListener (Free Law Project), reprinting the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/100958/lambert-v-yellowley/