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United States Vs. Vuitch

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 21, 1971

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  15. U.S. 62 (1971) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Vuitch
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  16. U.S. 62 (1971) United States v. Vuitch
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  17. was overly vague, and, relying on Williams v. United
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  18. jurisdiction over this direct appeal. He suggests that such a result is supported by the decision in United States v. Burroughs
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  19. U. S. 67 The relationship between the Criminal Appeals Act and this Code section was considered in Carroll v. United
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  20. Although Carroll seems to be dispositive, it has been suggested that it may now be limited by United States v. Sweet
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  21. the court relied on Williams v. United
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  22. present serious constitutional problems under this Court's previous decisions interpreting the Fifth Amendment. Tot v. United
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  23. Leary v. United
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  24. charge against him, and therefore the statute offends the Due Process Clause of the Constitution. See, e.g., Lanzetta v. New
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  25. Court decision that shed any light on the question. Since that decision, however, the issue has been considered in Doe v. General
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  26. be affirmed. Essentially, these arguments Page 402 U. S. 73 are based on this Court's decision in Griswold v. Connecticut
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  27. of vagueness was the only issue passed upon by the District Court it is the only issue we reach here. United States v. Borden
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  28. of the D.C. abortion statute now prevailing. The Court of Appeals established by such early cases as Peckham v. United
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  29. F.2d 34 (1955), cert. denied 350 U.S. 912, 350 U. S. 76 S.Ct.195, 100 L.Ed. 800, and Williams v. United
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  30. which may well offend the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, as interpreted in recent decisions such as Leary v. United
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  31. States, 395 U. S. 6 , 395 U. S. 89 S.Ct. 1532, 23 L.Ed.2d 57 (1969), and United States v. Gainey
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  32. The trial court also cited Peckham v. United
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  33. of course, know whether this is one of those cases. Until we do, facial vagueness claims must fail. Cf. United States v. National
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  34. The Court said in Lanzetta v. New
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  35. F.Supp. 1217, 1223. Page 402 U. S. 76 The Roe case was followed by a three-judge court in Doe v. Scott
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  36. People v. Belous
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  37. restraint of trade was an adequate constitutional standard of criminality, said in Nash v. United
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  38. Where, however, constitutional guarantees are implicated, the standards of certainty are more exacting. Winters v. New
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  39. such an acoordion-like way as to infringe on religious rights protected by the First Amendment. Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson
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  40. statute when the regulation touches a protected constitutional right ( Cantwell v. Connecticut
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  41. U. S. 100 ) is only another facet of the void-for-vagueness problem. What the Court held in Herndon v. Lowry
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  42. Pa.L.Rev. 67, 104 (1960). Abortion touches intimate affairs of the family, of marriage, of sex, which in Griswold v. Connecticut
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  43. They include the right to procreate ( Skinner v. Oklahoma
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  44. U. S. 535 ), the right to marry across the color line ( Loving v. Virginia
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  45. U. S. 1 ), the intimate familial relations between children and parents ( Meyer v. Nebraska
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  46. I have expressed my views on the vagueness of criminal laws governing obscenity in Dyson v. Stein
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  47. U. S. 200 , 401 U. S. 204 (dissenting opinion). And see the dissent of MR. JUSTICE BLACK in Ginzburg v. United
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  48. s right to appeal in criminal cases both in the District of Columbia and throughout the Nation is surveyed in Carroll v. United
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  49. established in the Circuit Court of Appeals Act of 1891. S.Rep. No. 3922, 59th Cong., 1st Sess. (1906). See Carroll v. United
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  50. in appeals, and restraints on personal freedom while the Government prosecuted its appeal. See generally United States v. Sisson
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