United States v. Bustos-Useche

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• because Panama consented to the enforcement of the MDLEA over the vessel, the jurisdictional requirements of the statute were met, despite the timing of the consent after the vessel was commandeered by the Coast Guard
• “[T]he district court’s preliminary determination of whether a flag nation has consented or waived objection to the enforcement of United States law [such that the vessel is subject to jurisdiction of the United States] is a prerequisite to the court’s jurisdiction . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).