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· 5/24/1971

Papa v. Florida

Citations

  • 402 U.S. 996
  • 91 S. Ct. 2180

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that ATF has discretion to define the term “business premises” in another firearms statute
  • “Because [the statute] authorizes the Secretary to promulgate those regulations which are ‘necessary,’ it almost inevitably confers some measure of discretion to determine what regulations are in fact ‘necessary.’”

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