Robert Larry Crow v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of Florida

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• holding the additional element of scienter did not distinguish the federal theft statute at issue in that case from the tort of copyright infringement because the federal statute requires scienter, and because scienter “merely narrows the applicability of the statute”
• holding the additional element of scienter did not distinguish the federal theft statute at issue in that case from the tort of copyright infringement because the federal statute requires scienter, and because scienter \merely narrows the applicability of the statute\
• applied two-part test and expressly found that a state criminal theft statute was preempted in prosecution involving bootlegged sound recordings

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