National American Bank of New Orleans v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the statute and sentencing guidelines applicable to crack cocaine \have a reasonable basis and are not vague under commonly understood usages\
• applying “fundamental” canon of construction “that, unless otherwise defined, words will be interpreted as taking their ordinary, contemporary, common meaning” in assessing vagueness challenge (internal quotation marks and citation omitted.)
• “[E]ven many children on the street know the difference between powdered cocaine and crack.”
• “It is improper for a court to award a minor participation adjustment simply because a defendant does less than the other participants. Rather, the defendant must do enough less so that he at best was peripheral to the advancement of the illicit activity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).