Galison v. District of Columbia

*1265NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

Appellant Galison was convicted, after trial to the court, of one count of arranging for the placement of a child under sixteen years of age without having been licensed as a “child-placing agency.”1 D.C.Code 1973, §§ 32-785, -788. Appellant Goldstein was convicted of three counts under the same code provisions. Each argued that Congress, in enacting the provisions of title 32, chapter 7B (hereinafter the Baby Broker Act, or Act), did not intend to reach the conduct proved in these cases. Galison also contended that the government failed to prove that he was not…