Legal Opinion
United States v. Lang
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 3, 2013No. 12-13608PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Chief Judge:
The lifeblood of many crimes is cash. So that federal law enforcement can more readily trace the flow of large amounts of cash, the law requires a financial institution to file with the Department of the Treasury reports of cash transactions by any person on a single day that exceed $10,000. If that were all, the reporting requirement could be evaded through the simple expedient of dividing large cash transactions into amounts small enough not to trigger it. To prevent that and similar end runs, the law makes it a crime to structure cash transactions for the purpose of…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- United States v. Billy Ray HuffCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- United States v. Ronald L. Davenport and Betty L. DavenportCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
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