McGhee v. State Board of Control

How courts have described this case

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

• “Whether Congress has intended extraterritorial application is a question of statutory interpretation.”
• “[W]e ask whether the language [of the statute] gives any indication of a congressional purpose to extend its coverage beyond places over which the United States has sovereignty or has some measure of legislative control.” (emphasis added
• “Whether Congress has intended extraterritorial application 15 is a question of statutory interpretation.”
• statute punishing conspiracy to export cocaine from United States
• “The objective territorial principle applies where the defendant’s actions either produced some effect in the United States, or where he was part of a conspiracy in which any conspirator’s overt acts were committed within the United States’ territory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).