United States v. Laverty

How courts have described this case

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• “It is a well-established and. longstanding principle that ‘[statutes which invade the common law . . . are to be read with a presumption favoring the retention of long-established and familiar principles, except when a statutory purpose to the contrary is evident.’ ”

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