United States Ninth Circuit

Congress acted within its constitutional bounds under the Foreign Commerce Clause in criminalizing commercial sex acts committed by U.S. citizens who travel abroad in "foreign commerce," i.e. to a foreign country, to then engage in an illegal commercial sex act with a minor.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/06/2005
• Decided 01/25/2006
• Published 01/25/2006

Judges

• Before HUG, FERGUSON, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Filipovic, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Vicki W.W. Lai, Research and Writing Attorney, Federal Public Defender's Office, Seattle, WA, for the defendant-appellant., John McKay, United States Attorney, Helen J. Brunner, John J. Lulejian, Susan B. Dohrmann, Assistant United States Attorneys, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellee.