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Caminetti v. United States

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Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
242 U.S. 470
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
56 of 56
Citing cases (total)
56
Treatment dates
1944
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. Caminetti v. United States remains authority on the Mann Act's reach beyond commercial sex and on reading plain statutory text, but the D.C. Circuit refused to extend its Mann Act approach to wholly local transportation in the District of Columbia.
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Treatments

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  • The D.C. Circuit declined to extend Caminetti's literal reading of the Mann Act to transportation wholly within the District of Columbia, where it found Congress had enacted separate local laws covering the subject.

    Beach v. United States · D.C. Circuit · filed

    Furthermore, once we apply locally the provisions of the Mann Act, we should also be required to accept the results implicit in the doctrine of the Caminetti case;16 and this, notwithstanding the Department of Justice has sought to avoid some of these by instructing district attorneys to exercise discretion in the prosecution of what are called “non-commercial” cases; and also, to avoid, as far as possible, prosecution of cases involving elements of blackmail. And this may be all very well as a national policy; but when we consider that not since the passage of the Mann Act has the prosecution .of an offence of this nature been begun in the District of Columbia under that Act, and when we recognize, as we do, that this is true because of the preemption by Congress of the local field in the passage of local laws fully covering the whole subject, we think we should be slow to write-in this new chapter of literal interpretation contrary to what is shown to be the real Congressional purpose.
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