Legal Opinion
United States v. Timothy Gordon Faasse
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 25, 2000No. 98-2337PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to decide whether the Commerce Clause empowers Congress to criminalize the failure to obey a state court order when the State itself has declined to do so. We hold that the Commerce Clause does not invest Congress with such a power.
I. Background
Timothy Gordon Faasse and Sandra Bowman met in a Michigan video store in 1989. The couple began dating, and in 1990. Bowman became pregnant. That summer, Faasse and Bowman visited California, Arizona, and Texas in order to find a place to work and live. They were unsuccessful and returned to…
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3Cited by5 opinions
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