United States v. Grace

ORDER

I. Introduction

The difficult question presented now is what the Congress meant when it used the term “asbestos.” How the word is defined has significant legal ramifications in this criminal case. The definition of “asbestos” sets the parameters of the Clean Air Act’s criminal prohibitions and affects the likelihood that alleged conduct in this case will be deemed criminal. If the word “asbestos” as applied in the criminal law includes varieties of winchite and richterite the criminal case involved here is dramatically different than if “asbestos” is defined as the phrase has historically…