Oregon Saw Chain Corp. v. McCulloch Motors Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• declaring that “[t]his is the only such instruction in a substantive federal criminal law” and then applying that rule in a drug prosecution
• recognizing “the express command . . . that the act should be liberally construed”
• describing the issue as whether “Congress intended to exempt attorneys’ fees from the criminal forfeiture provisions”
• “[T]he government’s interest in the property to be forfeited vests at the time the crime is committed, rather than upon conviction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).