Tarver v. Columbia Gulf Transmission Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding federal telephone harassment statute was not unconstitutionally vague and actor cannot claim confusion on prohibited conduct when statute requires the actor to intend to perform acts of harassment
• upholding a conviction under a federal telephone harassment statute, against a First Amendment challenge because of the intent requirement
• upholding a conviction under the federal telephone harassment statute, against a First Amendment challenge, because of the intent requirement
• “[The concurrent sentence doctrine] should not be applied where there is a significant risk of greater adverse collateral consequences from multiple convictions.”
• “The [concurrent sentence] doctrine clearly involves a matter of discretion . . . and should not be applied where there is a significant risk of greater adverse collateral consequences from multiple convictions.”
• constitutionality of federal statute prohibiting harassing interstate telephone calls upheld

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).