United States v. Rolle

The Extraterritorial Reach of Criminal Statutes

When federal statutes do not indicate how far they reach, courts apply a presumption against extraterritoriality to limit their geographic scope. Last year, in Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. (2023), the Supreme Court revised the presumption by requiring conduct in the United States for a statute’s application to be considered domestic. Meanwhile, lower courts…

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Vanderbilt Law School
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George Washington University Law School
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Cornell Law School
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University of North Carolina School of Law
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UC Davis School of Law
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New York University
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University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Whitecliff Management
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Yale Law School
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