United States Ninth Circuit

In a First Amendment challenge to rules promulgated by the Washington State Board of Pharmacy requiring pharmacies to deliver lawfully prescribed FDA-approved medications, a preliminary injunction in favor of Plaintiffs is reversed, where the District Court erroneously treated Plaintiffs' as-applied challenge as a facial challenge.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/08/2008
• Decided 07/08/2009
• Published 07/08/2009

Judges

• Before:  KIM McLANE WARDLAW, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kristen K. Waggoner, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellees., Alan D. Copsey, Assistant Attorney General, Olympia, WA, for defendants-appellants., Rima J. Alaily, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-intervenors-appellants.