.
The case now travels back to the Fifth Circuit federal appeals court, which has set an expedited briefing schedule to give a fuller
review of Kacsmaryk’s ruling. A three-judge panel from the Fifth
Circuit will hold a hearing on May 17 and issue another decision
sometime after. (There is no deadline for the Fifth Circuit to rule.)
The majority of judges
is unknown who the three judges will be. Notably, the three judges
who will hear that step of the appeal will likely be different from those that issued the appellate order last week.
The Supreme Court’s Friday order maintains the status quo
around the drug’s
out and until the justices have another chance to weigh in on how it handled the case.