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Second Circuit· 7/17/2013

Hedges v. Obama

Citations

  • 724 F.3d 170
  • 41 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 2221
  • 2013 WL 3717774
  • 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 14417

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  • explaining that courts generally presume that statutes will be enforced so long as the statute is recent and “not moribund”
  • “[N]either this Court nor the Supreme Court has required much to establish [a credible threat of enforcement] in challenges to ordinary criminal or civil punitive statutes. Rather, we have presumed that the government will enforce the law.”

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Judges: Kearse, Lohier, Kaplan

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