United States v. Abdul Daas, A/K/A Abdual Daas

How courts have described this case

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• “To determine the plain meaning of a particular statutory provision, and thus congressional intent, the court looks to the entire statutory scheme.”
• “If the statute uses a term which it does not define, the court gives that term its ordinary meaning.”
• “If the statute is ambiguous — and only then — courts may look to its legislative history for evi- dence of congressional intent”
• approximately four hours of deliberations before the Allen charge and one hour after did not indicate coerciveness
• “If the statute uses a term which it does not define, the court gives that term its ordinary meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).