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Per United States v. Faris, 2009 WL 3011047 (11th Cir. Sept. 23, 2009)
Charles Faris met an undercover police officer posing as a mother of two young girls in a chat room titled "open minded parents." After Faris arranged to meet the mother and...
Per United States v. Cohn, 2009 WL 3110775 (11th Cir. Sept. 30, 2009)
Criminal contempt. In a well-reasoned and short per curiam, the Eleventh declares that criminal contempt, 18 U.S.C. ยง 401, is a new category of crime, neither felony nor...
