United States v. Rakesh Dhingra

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “plain language” of the same phrase “any sexual activity for which any person can be charged,” in § 2422(b
• noting that, where a “statute regulates conduct, not speech, it is inappropriate to bootstrap our First Amendment jurisprudence into the context of criminal sexual contact”
• observing that a family planning provider could not be prosecuted under § 2422(b) unless it knew that it was persuading minors to engage in illicit sexual conduct
• comparing Section 2422(b)’s “any person can be charged” element with the local standards requirement of obscenity prosecutions
• rejecting First and Tenth Amendment challenges to the use of state and local law to define criminal sexual activity
• observing that, where sexual offenses involving a minor are concerned, the minor’s “willingness to engage in sexual activity is irrelevant, in much the same way that a minor’s consent to sexual activity does not mitigate the offense of statutory rape or child molestation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).