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· 8/20/2015

United States v. Lavelle Watts

Citations

  • 798 F.3d 650
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 14606
  • 2015 WL 4939560

How courts have described this case

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

  • “In 18 U.S.C. § 113(a), ‘assault’ primarily means common law ‘battery,’ ” and, specifically, “subsection[ ] ... (8) punish[es] common law battery.”
  • “In 18 U.S.C. § 113(a), ‘assault’ primarily means common law ‘battery,’ although it could include a common law ‘assault[.]’”

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Judges: Wood, Posner, Williams

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