Legal Opinion
United States v. Chalupnik
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 1, 2008No. 07-1355PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Chief Judge.
BMG Columbia House (“BMG”) sells CDs and DVDs by mail. Many BMG discs prove to be undeliverable. During the time in question, BMG arranged with the United States Postal Service (“USPS”) to gather and discard undeliverable discs, as it was less costly for BMG to produce replacement discs than to pay for the return and restocking of undeliverable discs. James Chalupnik, a janitorial supervisor at the downtown post office in Fargo, North Dakota, took several thousand undeliverable CDs and DVDs from the post office trash and sold them to used record stores. Initially charged…
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