Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Chevron Transport Corp. v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.
506 U.S. 981
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1992-11-09
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding that the entire weight of beeswax-cocaine statutes should be used in determining defendant's sentence
- explaining that dicta is neither law of the case nor binding precedent
- criticizing Option I and noting that no federal admiralty court had applied it
- law of the case doctrine applies to issues "fully briefed and squarely decided" in the first appeal
- applying pre-1993 Guidelines amendment to definition of cocaine base
- discussing the non-binding nature of dicta
Citator
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C. A. 11th Cir. Certiorari denied. Justice White would grant certiorari.