United States v. Mazurie

How courts have described this case

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• holding that \vagueness challenges to statutes which do not involve First Amendment freedoms must be examined in the light of the facts of the case at hand\
• holding that Congress, which regulated the introduction of alcoholic beverages in “Indian country” could validly delegate to Indian tribes its authority to regulate that subject matter because Indian tribes themselves possessed independent authority over the subject matter
• holding that, outside the First-Amendment context, a party “has standing to raise a vagueness challenge only insofar as the statute is vague as applied to his or her specific conduct” (quotation omitted)
• stating that “[i]t is well established that vagueness challenges to statutes which do not involve First Amendment freedoms must be examined in the light of the facts of the case at hand”
• noting, in the course of its vagueness analysis, the due process problems that arise when the burden of proof is shifted to a criminal defendant
• noting, in the course of its vagueness analysis, the due process problems that arise when the burden of proof is shifted to a criminal defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).