United States Postal Service v. Andrew R. Amada Power Pick, Inc., an Arizona Corporation, D/B/A Powerpick

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• holding that where the definition of “lottery” is “expressly limited to [18 U.S.C.] § 1307(b)” the definition cannot be applied to a related civil statute
• noting that absent a statutory definition, “the appropriate definition to apply is the common law lottery definition consistently used by the courts and described by the Supreme Court as the ‘traditional tests of chance, prize and consideration’”
• refusing to apply the in pari materia canon to define a term in another statute when the definition of the term in one statute was expressly limited to that statute

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