Legal Opinion
Cook v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 23, 1933No. 82PublishedCited by 171 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The main question for decision is whether § 581 of the Tariff Act of 1930, c. 497, 46 Stat. 590, 747, is modified, as applied to British vessels suspected of being engaged in smuggling liquors into the United States, by the Treaty between this country and Great Britain proclaimed May 22, 1924. (43 Stat. 1761.) That section—which is a reenactment in identical language of § 581 of the Tariff Act of '1922, c. 356, 42 Stat. 858, 979—declares that officers of the Coast Guard are authorized to stop and board any vessel at any place within four…
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