United States v. William P. Rieger

How courts have described this case

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

• the five-person requirement and the thirty-day requirement are “two separate and independent jurisdictional requirements for an illegal gambling business”
• “[W]e conclude that those who acted as doormen or ‘cut men’ were not mere bettors, but were participants within the purview of [§ 1955](b)(1)(ii).”
• five poker games over six-month period sufficient to constitute “substantially continuous operation”
• describing the requirement as “jurisdictional”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).