UNITED STATES

v.

KOZMINSKI ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co., 487 U.S. 312 (U.S. 1988)
  …We granted certiorari to resolve a conflict in the Circuits over whether a failure to file a notice of appeal in accordance with the specificity requirement of Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(c) presents a jurisdictional bar. to the appeal.1 484 U. S. 894 (1987). We now affirm. II Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 3(c) provides in pertinent part that a notice of appeal “shall specify the party or parties taking the appeal.” The Rule was amended in 1979 to add that an appeal “shall not be dismisse…
• Huddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681 (U.S. 1988)
  …(1987) (per curiam). The court noted that the evidence concerning the televisions was admitted for a proper purpose and that the probative value of this evidence was not outweighed by its potential prejudicial effect. [*685] We granted certiorari, 484 U. S. 894 (1987), to resolve a conflict among the Courts of Appeals as to whether the trial court must make a preliminary finding before “similar act” and other Rule 404(b) evidence is submitted to the jury.2 We conclude that such evidence should be admitted…
• United States v. Kozminski, 487 U.S. 931 (U.S. 1988)
  …coercion may constitute a holding in involuntary servitude. The use, or threatened use, of physical force to create a climate of fear is the most grotesque example of such coercion”). We granted the Government’s petition for a writ of certio-rari, 484 U. S. 894 (1987), to resolve this conflict among the Courts of Appeals on the meaning of involuntary servitude for the purpose of criminal prosecution under §241 and § 1584.' II Federal crimes are defined by Congress, and so long as Congress acts within its…