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Supreme Court· 12/3/1990

Moskal v. United States

Citations

  • 498 U.S. 103
  • 111 S. Ct. 461
  • 112 L. Ed. 2d 449
  • 1990 U.S. LEXIS 6119

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that \differences in judicial interpretation of a statute\ do not prove \the statute's ambiguity\
  • holding that the rule of lenity is not triggered because it is “possible to articulate” a narrower construction of a statute
  • holding that the rule of lenity is not triggered because it is “possible to articulate” a narrower construction of a statute
  • holding that a motor vehicle title duly issued by a state, but containing an apocryphal mileage figure, can be considered “falsely made” within the contemplation of an analogous criminal statute
  • recognizing that words are to be given their ordinary meaning, in context of the statute overall
  • holding that the rule of lenity is not triggered because it is “possible to articulate” a narrower construction of a statute

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Judges: Blackmun, Marshall, Rehnquist, Scalia, White

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