Bel Oil Corp. v. Federal Power Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that aggravating factors “must nevertheless be found by the jury beyond a reasonable doubt”
• observing that “[r]ipeness is a constitutional prerequisite to the exercise of jurisdiction by the federal courts” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding a convict’s Eighth Amendment challenge to the death penalty was foreclosed by Supreme Court precedent, but considering his Fifth Amendment substantive due process challenge
• discussing ripeness of different constitutional challenge to the FDPA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).