· 8/31/1981
United States v. James A. Womack
Citations
- 654 F.2d 1034
- 8 Fed. R. Serv. 1528
- 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 18104
How courts have described this case
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- rejecting assertion that federal statute regulating explosives lacked “adequate standards,” given that the statute “carefully define[d] the term ‘explosives’ . . . and an illustrative list of subject explosives [wa]s provided”
- “The standards of the statute are not to be tested in isolation but must derive meaningful content from the purpose of the statute and its factual background and the statutory context in which the standards appear.”
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Judges: Johnson, Hatchett, Scott
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