United States v. Frederick Schultz

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[d]eterminations of relevance are entrusted to the sound discretion of the trial judge”
• noting that “[determinations of relevance are entrusted to the sound discretion of the trial judge”
• noting that “[d]eterminations of relevance are entrusted to the sound discretion of the trial judge” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding that defendant was “unable to adduce any material, let alone persuasive evidence to support” his argument that the law was not, as its plain language suggested, an ownership law
• describing “[t]he dangers inherent in a court’s reaching out to decide issues not essential to the outcome of the case before it”
• considering evidence offered by defendant and finding that defendant “failed to present any evidence at the hearing or at trial that Law 117 is not what its plain language indicates it is, that is, an ownership law” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).