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· 8/27/1998

United States v. Jerry Antonio Williams

Citations

  • 155 F.3d 418
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 20961
  • 1998 WL 544888

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that we are not bound to follow a prior circuit decision when it is “clearly undermined” by a subsequent decision by the Supreme Court
  • rejecting Rashad as being “inconsistent with a wealth of Supreme Court authority” and overruling prior 4th Circuit authority upon which Rashad relied
  • “To the extent that our prior decision . . . requires a different result, its holding is clearly undermined by the more recent Supreme Court decisions . . . . Accordingly, we are not bound to follow it.”

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Judges: Murnagitan, Wilkins, Butzner

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