LOPEZ

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Lopez v. United States, 373 U.S. 427 (U.S. 1963)
  …a matter of law on the evidence” was denied, and petitioner was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for one year. Following per curiam affirmance of the conviction by the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 305 F. 2d 825, we granted certiorari, 371 U. S. 859, to consider the two questions stated at the outset of this opinion. Supra, pp. 428-429. I. The defense of entrapment, its meaning, purpose, and application, are problems that have sharply divided this Court on past occasions. See Sorrells v. Unit…
• Rosenberg v. Fleuti, 374 U.S. 449 (U.S. 1963)
  …t sufficiently encompassed within the term “psychopathic personality.” 302 F. 2d 652. The Government petitioned this Court for certiorari, which we granted in order to consider the constitutionality of § 212 (a) (4) as applied to respondent Fleuti. 371 U. S. 859. Upon consideration of the case, however, and in accordance with the long-established principle that “we ought not to pass on questions of constitutionality . . . unless such adjudication is unavoidable,” Spector Motor Service, Inc., v. McLaughlin,…
• Arrow Transp. Co. v. S. Ry. Co., 372 U.S. 658 (U.S. 1963)
  …dom, has fixed seven months as the maximum period of suspension. It seems clear to us that if the courts extend that period, they are in effect amending the statute and that is a matter beyond their power.” 308 F. 2d 181, 186. We granted certiorari, 371 U. S. 859.4 We affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals. I. The Interstate Commerce Commission was granted no power to suspend proposed rate changes in the original [*663] Act of 1887. That power first appeared among the 1910 amendments introduced by the…