United States v. Leroy Johnson, Jr.

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• finding that Congress's use of \substantially identical language\ to that of an earlier statute \bespeaks an intention to import\ judicial interpretations of that language into the new statute
• holding that “[t]he fact that Congress 2 chose to adopt . . . substantially identical language [in a new 3 statute] . . . bespeaks an intention to import the established . . . 4 interpretation of [the existing language] into the new statute”

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