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Hook, Line, and Stinker: How the Jurisdictional 'Hook' for Hobbs is Unconstitutionally Broad, Leads to Overcriminalization, and Absurd Results
- Source :
- Iowa Law Review. July, 2020, Vol. 105 Issue 5, p2299, 30 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- ABSTRACT: The Hobbs Act, passed by Congress in 194 6, makes it a federal crime to obstruct, delay, or affect commerce through robbery or extortion. 'Commerce' is the federal jurisdictional [...]
- Subjects :
- Interstate commerce -- Laws, regulations and rules
Extortion -- Laws, regulations and rules
Robbery -- Laws, regulations and rules
Federalism -- Analysis
Overbreadth doctrine -- Analysis
Prosecution -- Laws, regulations and rules
Police power -- Laws, regulations and rules
Conflict of judicial opinions -- Analysis
Government regulation
Law
Hobbs Act
United States Constitution (U.S. Const. art. 1, s. 8, cl. 3)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00210552
- Volume :
- 105
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Iowa Law Review
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.634680436