United States v. Robin Peavler

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

*747 When people enter drug treatment, their doctors often order urinalysis exams to monitor their progress. Doctors understandably prefer to get those exam results soon after ordering the tests to tailor future treatments. The five criminal defendants in this case started a urinalysis testing company. After they received doctors' orders to run urinalysis tests and after they received the urine samples for testing, they waited between seven and ten months to test the samples-in most instances because the testing equipment was not up and running. The laboratory nonetheless…