United States v. Lynn Truman Crawford

How courts have described this case

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• finding that payments of child support on behalf of an out-of-state child, or the debts resulting from nonpayment, are things in interstate commerce
• noting that the Supreme Court has only applied the domestic relations exception in diversity cases
• limiting the domestic relations exception to diversity jurisdiction cases involving divorce, alimony, and child custody
• identifying these three categories of activity subject to Commerce Clause power from Lopez
• finding “ample evidence” to support inference that defendant voluntarily and intentionally violated a known legal duty to pay past due child support where government demonstrated at trial that defendant earned over $280,-000 during relevant time period
• applying the \active verb\ or \key verb\ test to the Child Support Recovery Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).