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U.S. v. Stevens, No. 08-769 (U.S. Supreme Court) (559 U.S. 469; 130 S.Ct. 1577) (April 20, 2010) (Justice (John G.) Roberts)

Loaded on May 3, 2010 published in Punch and Jurists May 03, 2010
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Here, by an 8 to 1 vote, the Court struck down as unconstitutionally overbroad 18 U.S.C. § 48, a law which criminalizes the creation or sale of depictions of animal cruelty, calling the law a “criminal prohibition of alarming breadth”.

In 1999, Congress enacted 18 U.S.C. § 48, a law ...

 

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