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United States v. Gonzalez

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Judicial Decisions
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1986

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References

1 19 U.S.C. §14010 (1982), incorporated by reference in section 2(a) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. §955b(a).

2 See United States v. Romero-Galue, 757 F.2d 1147, 1153 (11th Cir. 1985).

3 776 F.2d 931, 935–37 (quoting H.R. Rep. No. 323, 96th Cong., 1st Sess. 11 (1979)).

4 The court also noted that the Act did not violate the constitutional prohibition against ex post facto laws, or the Convention on the High Seas, Apr. 29, 1958, 13 UST 2312, TIAS No. 5200, 450 UNTS 82.

5 776 F.2d at 938.

6 Id. at 939 (citing discussions of the protective principle in the Senate Report on the 1935 Anti-Smuggling Act, S. Rep. No. 1036, 74th Cong., 1st Sess. 5 (1935), and in Church v. Hubbart, 6 U.S. (2 Cranch) 187, 235 (1804)).

7 776 F.2d at 939.

8 Id. (citing Restatement (Second) of Foreign Relations Law of the United States §33 (1965)).

9 776 F.2d at 940.

10 Id. at 937 n.8.