Caminetti v. United States
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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 strictly to purposes of prostitution, but 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 according to its terms.
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