Legal Opinion
United States v. Donald Lyle Hassel
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 12, 1965No. 9527_1PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NORTHROP, District Judge.
The question raised on this appeal is whether, under the second paragraph of Section 2314, Title 18, United States Code, a victim must be bilked out of $5,-000 or more in order for federal jurisdiction to attach.
The pertinent paragraph reads as follows:
“Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transports or causes to be transported, or induces any person to travel in, or to be transported in interstate commerce in the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Pereira v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- United States v. SylvanusCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1951
- Grove v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1925
- Eugene Fisher Londos and Adrian Lawrence Dudley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
- United States v. Eugene Bernard HamrickCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1961
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3Cited by8 opinions
- United States v. Harry Neil KellyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- United States v. William F. Biggs, United States of America v. William F. Biggs, United States of America v. William F. BiggsCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1985
- United States v. William Michael ThawCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1965
- United States v. HoneyDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1981
- United States v. Amado NunezDistrict Court, D. Puerto Rico · 2001
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