United States Tenth Circuit

18 U.S.C. section 2251(a), which criminalizes certain production of child pornography, reaches intrastate activity that substantially affects the interstate child pornography market, and thus, is a facially valid exercise of Congress's Commerce Clause power.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/13/2006
• Published 03/13/2006

Judges

• HENRY, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, Circuit Judge, McKAY, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher M. Joseph (with M. Kristine Savage and Stephen M. Joseph on the briefs), Joseph & Hollander, P.A., Topeka, KS, for Defendant-Appellant., Tanya J. Treadway, Assistant United States Attorney (with Eric F. Melgren, United States Attorney on the brief), Topeka KS, for Plaintiff-Appellee.