United States v. Rufus Holland

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding constitutionality of statutes prohibiting sale of drugs near school regardless of defendant’s knowledge of school’s location
• drug transactions “contribute directly to the violent and dangerous milieu that Congress sought to eliminate”
• statute punishing distribution of controlled substances within 1000 feet of a school does not violate due process even though perpetrator may be unaware of school’s proximity
• drug transactions “contribute directly to the violent and dangerous milieu that Congress sought to eliminate”
• “Generally . . . ignorance of the law does not serve as an excuse for criminal conduct.”
• drug transactions “contribute directly to the violent and dangerous milieu that Congress sought to eliminate”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).