Caminetti v. United States
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Caminetti v. United States | |||||||||||
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Supreme Court of the United States | |||||||||||
Argued November 13-14, 1916 Decided January 15, 1917 |
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Holding | |||||||||||
Court membership | |||||||||||
Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White Associate Justices: Joseph McKenna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William R. Day, Charles Evans Hughes, Willis Van Devanter, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Mahlon Pitney, James Clark McReynolds |
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Case opinions | |||||||||||
Majority by: Day Joined by: Holmes, Hughes, Van Devanter, Lamar, Pitney Dissent by: McKenna Joined by: Clarke, White McReynolds took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
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Laws applied | |||||||||||
White-Slave Traffic (Mann) Act, ch. 395, 36 Stat. 825 (1910) (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. ยงยง 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 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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