A bone scan can often find a problem days to months earlier than a regular X-ray test. During a bone scan, a radioactive substance called a tracer is injected into a vein in your arm. The tracer travels through your bloodstream and into your bones. Then a special camera takes pictures of the tracer in your bones.
Ogden filed a complaint in the Court of Chancery of New York asking the court to stop Gibbons from operating his boats. Ogden claimed that the monopoly granted by New York was legal even though he operated on shared, interstate waters between New Jersey and New York.
By allegedly capturing the snake illegally in Idaho, and then transporting it across state lines, Mayo violated the federal Lacey Act, and law-and-order prosecutor Stephen Cooper of Fairbanks, a man famous for his dogged pursuit of the outlaw Jim Wilde, decided the young man needed to be brought to justice.