United States v. Arjona

United States v. Arjona
United States v. Arjona
	Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 7, 1887
Full case name	United States v. Arjona
Citations	120 U.S. 479 (more)
Holding
	It is not necessary for Congress to announce that a statute is intended to enforce international criminal law before that statute may be enforced under the Offenses Clause.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Morrison Waite Associate Justices Samuel F. Miller · Stephen J. Field; Joseph P. Bradley · John M. Harlan; William B. Woods · Stanley Matthews; Horace Gray · Samuel Blatchford
Case opinion
Majority	Waite, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
	Offenses Clause

United States v. Arjona, 120 U.S. 479 (1887), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that it is not necessary for Congress to announce that a statute is intended to enforce international criminal law before that statute may be enforced under the Offenses Clause.^[1]^[2]

Description

The challenged law in this case criminalized the counterfeiting of foreign governments' securities.^[2]

References

^ United States v. Arjona, 120 U.S. 479 (1887).
^ ^a ^b Lieberman, Jethro K. (1999). "Piracy". A Practical Companion to the Constitution. p. 351.

External links

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[case-1] United States v. Arjona, 120 U.S. 479 (1887).

[Lieberman1999-2] Lieberman, Jethro K. (1999). "Piracy". A Practical Companion to the Constitution. p. 351.

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