Legal Opinion
United States v. Fordyce
District Court, S.D. California
Decided March 29, 1961No. Cr. 29124PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtYankwich, District Judge
(after stating the facts above).
Stated, in summary, my view is, under the admitted facts, that no offense was committed by the defendant, because neither the credit cards nor the charge slips, nor the two in combination, are “securities” within the meaning of the section referred to. Nor are they “instrumentalities” for forging or altering of a type which the statute condemns. The section under which this prosecution is instituted, § 2314 of Title 18 U.S.C.A., must be read in conjunction with § 2311 of the same title, which defines “securities”. This is a part of the “Stolen Property Act”, in…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Pereira v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Yates v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- United States v. SheridanSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Pines v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1941
- National Labor Relations Board v. Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Louisville, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1956
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3Cited by15 opinions
- John Edward Merrill v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1964
- Williams v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1961
- Robert Lee Lewis v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1962
- United States v. BarnettDistrict Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1965
- Harry Barack v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
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