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151284P.pdf 06/08/2016 United States v. Jack Frison, Sr.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-1284
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Loken and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Constitutional challenges to the statutes
covering aiding and abetting copyright infringement and trafficking in
counterfeit goods rejected as the statutes were not unconstitutionally
vague as to defendant's sales of counterfeit goods because he had fair
notice that his conduct was criminal; a person of ordinary intelligence
would reasonably understand that intentionally selling counterfeit goods
at a flea market or willfully infringing copyrighted works at the market
for gain could result in criminal liability, and that intentionally aiding
and abetting such conduct could also result in criminal liability;
further, defendant was given actual notice on a number of occasions that
his conduct violated the applicable law.