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· 8/26/1987

United States v. Larry Winfred Shilling, (Two Cases)

Citations

  • 826 F.2d 1365

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that disassembled guns that could be made to shoot automatically were “readily restor[able]”
  • “[A]s for income tax violations, documents from an earlier time may have bearing on the tax violations alleged in a later year.”
  • overbroad seizure of records prompted by legitimate practical concerns of keeping documents intact and preventing loss, rather than by governmental intent to engage in fishing expedition
  • overbroad seizure of records prompted by legitimate practical concerns of keeping documents intact and preventing loss, rather than by governmental intent to engage in fishing expedition
  • \We decline to follow the Herbert decision in this Circuit.\
  • seizure of file cabinet of documents, only some of which were relevant

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Judges: Hall, Butzner, Simons

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