United States Eleventh Circuit

Receipt of donations from two out-of-state donors, use of a handful of Bibles and prayer books purchased from out-of-state, and indirect contributions to an out-of-state organization are too passive, too minimal and too indirect to substantially affect interstate commerce under 18 USC 844(i).

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2001
• Published 05/31/2001

Judges

• NESBITT, District Judge:, Before BIRCH and BLACK, Circuit Judges, and NESBITT , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kristen Gartman Rogers,Christopher Knight, Fed. Pub. Defenders, Fed. Defenders Organization, Inc., Richard Russell Williams, Dennis J. Knizley (Court-Appointed), Mobile, AL, for Defendants-Appellants., Barbara D. Underwood, Marie K. McElderry, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, Greg Bordenkircher, Richard W. Moore, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.