Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Lyon v. United States
Lyon v. United States, 420 U.S. 966 (1975)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1975-03-03
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- “To assume ... that the mere passage of a specific statute covering an area of conduct also regulated by a more general statute limits enforcement of the general statute ... is, in effect, to accomplish a partial repeal of the general statute.”
Citator
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.
Mr. Justice Douglas would grant certiorari.