Sugarine Co. v. Werthan Bag Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting “established Supreme Court precedent declining to address constitutional questions not put in issue by the parties”
• noting “established Supreme Court precedent declining to address constitutional questions not put in issue by the parties”
• \We do not reach David's Commerce Clause challenge to his 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) conviction because he failed to raise the claim in the lower court.\
• constitutional claim is not jurisdictional and may be forfeited by failure to raise claim in trial court
• because every federal statute enjoys “a presumption of validity,” the “assertion of a constitutional defect does not work to divest th[e] court of its original jurisdiction”
• Courts have “an obligation to address jurisdictional questions sua sponte.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).