High bar for finding regulations unconstitutional due to vagueness or overbreadth: Covant v. College of Veterinarians of Ontario, 2023 ONCA 564
Facts: C, a veterinarian, ran a sub-distribution operation whereby veterinary drugs were re-sold to human pharmacies. After a complaint by a drug distributor, a panel of the Discipline Committee of the College of Veterinarians found that C’s conduct constituted professional misconduct, as it was contrary to a newly amended regulation which restricted such re-sales to […]
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