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1926-11-29

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Lambert v. Yellowley, 272 U.S. 581 (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.

Date: 1926-11-29
Kind: court-opinion
Source: CourtListener (Free Law Project), reprinting the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: 272 U.S. 581 (1926), No. 47
Rights: Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States. Judicial opinions of the Court are not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. § 105; Wheaton v. Peters). The text read here is CourtListener's scan-derived copy of the reported opinion.

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.

itemUnited States v. Sullivan, 274 U.S. 259 (1927)The Supreme Court holds, 16 May 1927, in an opinion by Justice Holmes, that gains from an unlawful liquor business are taxable income and that the Fifth Amendment did not excuse the defendant from filing a return at all.itemUnited States v. One Ford Coupe Automobile, 272 U.S. 321 (1926)The Supreme Court holds, 22 November 1926, that the National Prohibition Act did not displace Revised Statutes section 3450, so an automobile used to conceal tax-unpaid illicit liquor could be forfeited under that section.

itemMabel Willebrandt, half-length portrait (1920-1940)Library of Congress biographical-file photograph of Mabel Willebrandt seated in her law office, reading at a desk covered with papers and books. The Library's title is devised and the date spans 1920-1940.