Gerber v. Borderland Coal Sales Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that section 844(h)(1), while “limited to fire or explosives, sweeps more broadly; it proscribes generally the use of these means to commit ‘any’ federal felony” (emphasis added)
• finding no due process violation where defendant was convicted of arson for fire he set only after an undercover agent asked him to
• rejecting claim of manufactured jurisdiction where “defendants themselves committed the substantial jurisdictional act of burning the government [car]”
• “Under long-standing principles of statutory construction, a general section of a statute must give way to a specific one.”
• \Arson is hardly ‘otherwise innocent conduct.’\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).