Caminetti v. United States
- Caminetti v. United States
Infobox SCOTUS case
Litigants=Caminetti v. United States
ArgueDateA=November 13
ArgueDateB=14
ArgueYear=1916
DecideDate=January 15
DecideYear=1917
FullName=F. Drew Caminetti v. United States; Maury I. Diggs v. United States; L.T. Hays v. United States
USVol=242
USPage=470
Citation=37 S. Ct. 192; 61 L. Ed. 442
Prior="Diggs v. United States", 220 F. 545 (9th Cir.), "cert. granted", 238 U.S. 637 (1915). "Hays v. United States", 231 F. 106 (8th Cir.), "cert. granted", 241 U.S. 674 (1916).
Holding=The Mann Act applied not only to purposes of prostitution but also to other noncommercial consensual sexual liaisons. Thus, consensual extramarital sex falls within the genre of “immoral sex.”
SCOTUS=1916-1921
Majority=Day
JoinMajority=Holmes, Hughes, Van Devanter, Lamar, Pitney
Dissent=McKenna
JoinDissent=Clarke, White
NotParticipating=McReynolds
LawsApplied=White-Slave Traffic (Mann) Act, ch. 395, 36 Stat. 825 (1910) (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. §§ 2421-2424).
"Caminetti v. United States", 242 U.S. 470 (1917), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case involving the Mann Act. The Court decided that the Mann Act applied not only to purposes of prostitution but also to other noncommercial consensual sexual liaisons. Thus, consensual extramarital sex falls within the genre of "immoral sex."
The case was historic in that it was one of the first where the court embraced the idea of the Plain Meaning Rule, where if the language of the statute is plain, the courts must enforce it, literally, according to its terms.
ee also
*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 242
*"Athanasaw v. United States", ussc|227|326|1913
Further reading
*cite journal |last=Huston |first=John A. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1947 |month= |title=Prosecution of Mormon "Fundamentalists" under the Mann Act—Doctrine of "Caminetti v. United States" |journal=Michigan Law Review |volume=45 |issue=6 |pages=785–787 |doi=10.2307/1283936 |url= |accessdate= |quote=
External links
* [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=242&invol=470 Text of the opinion from Findlaw.com]
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