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· 7/30/2002

United States v. Shawn P. Williams

Citations

  • 299 F.3d 250
  • 2002 U.S. App. LEXIS 15279
  • 2002 WL 1752293

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a vacant building available for rent was engaged in interstate commerce
  • “[P]roviding a safety valve for nonvio- lent, first-time drug offenders has a rational relationship to the legitimate government goal of providing excep- tions to draconian mandatory minimum sentences for such individuals.”
  • “An error affects the substantial rights of a party if it is prejudicial.”
  • \An error affects the substantial rights of a party if it is prejudicial.\
  • “An error affects the substantial rights of a party if it is prejudicial.”
  • “[O]nce the business nature of the property at issue is established, courts will presume, absent indicia of an intention to permanently remove the property from the stream of commerce, that the requisite interstate commerce nexus exists.”

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Judges: Roth, Rendell, Rosenn

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