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· 8/12/2003

United States v. Ali Boumelhem

Citations

  • 339 F.3d 414
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 16425
  • 2003 WL 21914106

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that exit search for firearms implicates \significant government interests\ not only in controlling exports but also in national security
  • noting that a party forfeits an “alternative argument in support of a lower court’s decision” “by failing to raise the issue in the district court”
  • applying border exception to exit search of shipping container believed to hold smuggled firearms
  • railroad yard in Detroit, Michigan, was functional equivalent of the border

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Norris, Daughtrey, Rogers

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