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084004P.pdf 04/26/2010 United States v. Orlando Birbragher
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 08-4004
U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Dubuque
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Wollman and John R. Gibson,
Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. Constitutional challenge
to the Controlled Substances Act rejected as the Act was not
unconstitutionally vague as applied to defendant's conduct in operating
an internet pharmacy; it is well settled that the section applied to
defendant as the owner and operator of a company involved in a
conspiracy with doctors and pharmacists to distribute controlled
substances outside the scope of their professional practice; statute
provided adequate notice that defendant's conduct was prohibited;
passage of Online Pharmacy Act did not change the analysis; defendant
waived his right to appeal his sentence, and that portion of the appeal is
dismissed.