James Fouts v. Warren City Council

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “the jury must have had sufficient evidence” to find the relevant fact “without resorting to excessively strained inferences or guesswork”
• describing jurisdictional elements that restrict the reach of statutes to Congress’s enumerated powers by requiring factual findings, such as an effect on interstate commerce
• affirming denial of judgment of acquittal regarding interstate commerce element of Hobbs Act prosecution
• Lopez does not reguire Hobbs Act prosecution to demonstrate substantial effect on interstate commerce

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).