United States v. 24 Cans Containing Butter

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• adopting “a three-part test, analyzing whether the non-parties actually participated in the proceedings below, the equities weigh in favor of hearing the appeal, and the non-parties have a personal stake in the outcome” (internal quotations omitted)
• protecting state citizens from criminal activity is a recognized quasi-sovereign interest
• “In order to determine if a nonparty may properly appeal, this court has adopted a three-part test[.]”
• “[A]lthough overcrowding may give rise to unconstitutional conditions, overcrowding itself is not per se unconstitutional.”
• providing the three factors for nonparty standing to appeal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).