Ark. State Board of Pharmacy v. Gibson Products Co.

Gibson Products Company of Fort Smith, a corporation, applied to the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy for a permit to operate a pharmacy in the city of Fort Smith. Under the Board’s Regulation 33 the application was made in the name of the appellee Lee R. Whitmer, a registered pharmacist whom Gibson intended to put in charge of its pharmacy if the permit should be granted. The Board denied the application, finding that earlier in the month Whitmer had been suspended for 90 days by the Oklahoma Board of Pharmacy and was therefore not qualified “at this time” to be a supervising pharmacist in…