Britney Motil v. Wausau Underwriters Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• emphasizing that, without a link to a pending proceeding, a defendant could only speculate whether his conduct ever would impede the IRS
• accepting defendant’s argument that “it cannot be sufficient to impose criminal liability upon mere allegations that the IRS’s job was made harder” by the defendant’s conduct
• “[C]ourts will presume that Congress knew of the prevailing law when it enacted the statute.”
• rejecting the defendant’s argument on plain error review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).