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Posted on Saturday, 16th May 2009 by dcooley

Kansas pharmacist, Rick Kloxin, pled no contest to 14 misdemeanor counts in the Hogan’s Pharmacy internet pharmacy case.  Kloxin was the lead pharmacist at Hogan’s Pharmacy and plans to cooperate in the prosecution of Jolane and Mark Poindexter, the owners of Hogan’s.  In March, Kloxin lost his license and was fined $62,000.  A discussion of the [...]

Tags: Administrative Hearing, Hogan's Pharmacy, Internet Pharmacy Law, Kansas, Pharmacies, Plea, Ryan Haight Act, State Law
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Posted on Sunday, 10th May 2009 by dcooley

Many federal circuits permit a good faith jury instruction in cases in which doctors are prosecuted under the Controlled Substances Act.  Internet pharmacy law cases involving doctors are no different.  Below is an illustrative case:
U.S. v. Hurwitz, 459 F.3d 463 (2006):  The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Dr. William E. Hurtwitz’s conviction due to the [...]

Tags: Controlled Substances, Criminal Appeals, Criminal Defense, Doctors, Internet Pharmacy Law, jury instructions, Pharmacies, Ryan Haight Act, Website Owners
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Posted on Tuesday, 21st April 2009 by dcooley

According to the Seattle Times, the home of Dr. Peter Pfeiffer, of Bellingham, Washington, was raided by DEA agents last Friday as a result of his alleged ties to an Internet pharmacy.  The search warrant alleged, among other things, that Pfeiffer was:

writing “a very large number of prescriptions” for hydrocodone between November and February;
writing prescriptions [...]

Tags: Doctors, Internet Pharmacy Law, Investigation, Ryan Haight Act
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Posted on Tuesday, 14th April 2009 by dcooley

Yesterday was the effective date for a majority of the provisions in the Ryan Haight Act (Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act).  It is now part of the Controlled Substances Act.  Also effective yesterday was the interim Ryan Haight Act rule promulgated by the DEA, which I have argued does nothing but make internet [...]

Tags: Internet Pharmacy Law, Ryan Haight Act
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Posted on Saturday, 11th April 2009 by dcooley

The AffPower network Internet pharmacy trial began this week in the Southern District of California for the remaining AffPower defendants Dolores Lovin, Mary Aronson, Richard Edward Koch, Philip James Bidwell, Jeffrey A. Light, Tracy ONeal Tyler and Peter P. Bragansa.  This case is unique in that the Government seeks to prosecute Internet pharmacy affiliates as well as [...]

Tags: Affiliates, AffPower, Controlled Substances, Internet Pharmacy Law, JIVE, Non-Controlled Substances, Ryan Haight Act, Trial
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Posted on Wednesday, 8th April 2009 by dcooley

The final rule on the “Implementation of the Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act” (aka Ryan Haight Act) was published in the Federal Register Monday by the DEA and DOJ. It can be found here. It draws some interesting conclusions with respect to internet pharmacy law, and the new regulations only serve to increase already existing legal ambiguity.

Tags: Criminal Appeals, Criminal Defense, Internet Pharmacy Law, Ryan Haight Act
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