United States v. Frega

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing legislative history after finding statute ambiguous because interpretation not requiring federal connection would alter federal-state balance absent a clear Congressional directive
• reviewing legislative history after finding statute ambiguous because interpretation not requiring federal connection would alter federal-state balance absent a clear Congressional directive
• where the court conceived of three ways the cases at issue could be valued: (1) the amount in controversy; (2) the ultimate settlement value or verdict; (3) the value of the case to the lawyer defendant
• no threat to the integrity of a federal program where state judges were charged with accepting bribes and none of the federal funding the state received was designated to fund the state court system
• finding ambiguity in calculating the transaction value

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).