United States v. Ali Ali

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a statute is void for vagueness if persons of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning
• holding that a treaty sufficed to provide “[wjhatever [notice] due process requires here”
• noting that Al Kassar “only tells us when such a nexus exists, not when it is absent”
• stating that to prosecute the defendant for aiding and abetting piracy under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1651 and 2, “the government must prove someone committed piratical acts while on the high seas”
• “[Assuming Al Kassar’s characterization is right, the decision only tells us when such a nexus exists, not when it is absent.”
• finding jurisdiction over interlocutory government appeal under 18 U.S.C. § 3731 of a district court order dismissing one or more counts of an indictment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).