Supreme Court· 6/23/1947

United States v. Petrillo

Citations

332 U.S. 1
67 S. Ct. 1538
91 L. Ed. 1877
1947 U.S. LEXIS 2923
20 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2254

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rejecting vagueness challenge to statute making it a crime to coerce the employment of \persons in excess of the number of employees needed\
rejecting vagueness challenge to statute making it a crime to-coerce the employment of “persons in excess of the number of employees needed”
invalidating a statute where clearer and more precise language could have been easily used
invalidating a statute where clearer and more precise language could have been easily used
upholding the constitutionality of a Communications Act provision making it a crime to coerce a radio-broadcasting licensee to employ \in excess of the number of employees needed by such licensee to perform actual services\
upholding a law against a void-for-vagueness challenge because no “clearer and more precise language_ occurs to us, nor has any better language been suggested, effectively to carry out what appears to have been the Congressional purpose”

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Judges: Black, Frankfurter, Reed, Douglas, Murphy, Rutledge

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