United States v. Brian R. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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• relying on a federal statute to determine federal common law because of the absence of a national consensus regarding the definition of extortion
• considering whether there was an interstate consensus regarding the definition of extortion
• deciding on the Hobbs Act definition
• “[W]e must look to the ‘generic’ definitions of burglary, arson, or extortion—the meanings likely ascribed to these words by the federal legislators who adopted the stat- ute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).