In the Matter of R

23 Cited authorities

  1. Caminetti v. United States

    242 U.S. 470 (1917)   Cited 1,907 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that importation of a woman for immoral purposes may constitutionally be regulated even when it is not for material gain
  2. Stromberg v. California

    283 U.S. 359 (1931)   Cited 1,002 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding state statute punishing the use of any symbol " ‘of opposition to organized government’ " to be impermissibly vague
  3. Cleveland v. United States

    329 U.S. 14 (1946)   Cited 190 times
    Holding that the fact that a practice "is supported by a religious creed affords no defense in a prosecution" for that conduct because to hold otherwise "would place beyond the law any act done under claim of religious sanction"
  4. Mortensen v. United States

    322 U.S. 369 (1944)   Cited 151 times
    Holding that it is essential to the Act that the interstate travel must have had its object or means of effecting or facilitating the proscribed illicit activities and the petitioners in that case traveled for purely vacation purposes, their conviction was reversed.
  5. Gebardi v. United States

    287 U.S. 112 (1932)   Cited 206 times   18 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a woman's consent to be transported for prostitution does not amount to a conspiracy with her transporter to violate the Mann Act
  6. Crain v. United States

    162 U.S. 625 (1896)   Cited 228 times
    Holding that a conviction may stand if government proves any of the alleged criminal acts alleged conjunctively in an indictment count
  7. Hansen v. Haff

    291 U.S. 559 (1934)   Cited 38 times
    Determining on habeas review whether an alien entered for an "immoral purpose"
  8. Pollard v. Lyon

    91 U.S. 225 (1875)   Cited 67 times
    In Pollard v. Lyon, 91 U.S. 225, also relied on by appellant, the cases on the point as to the necessity for alleging special damages were fully presented, and it was held that where the words are not actionable in themselves, not charging an indictable offense, there must be a statement of the special loss or injury or the declaration is bad, although the language used imputes moral turpitude.
  9. United States v. Zimmerman

    71 F. Supp. 534 (E.D. Pa. 1947)   Cited 14 times
    In UnitedStates v. Zimmerman (E.D.Pa. 1947) 71 F. Supp. 534, the court stated with regard to a similar offense under a similar law: "I cannot say that the action of an escaping prisoner involves that element of baseness, vileness or depravity which has been regarded as necessarily inherent in the concept of moral turpitude.
  10. In re Paoli

    49 F. Supp. 128 (N.D. Cal. 1943)   Cited 16 times
    Granting application for naturalization where applicant had been convicted of a felony but was nevertheless found to be of "good moral character"
  11. Section 1251 - Transferred

    8 U.S.C. § 1251   Cited 2,154 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Delineating crimes that make alien deportable