Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
McDonald v. Piedmont Aviation, Inc.
McDonald v. Piedmont Aviation, Inc., 502 U.S. 969 (1991)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1991-11-18
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- rejecting as a ground for departure “the district court’s stated desire, in the interests of fairness, to equalize the sentences of two similarly situated codefendants.”
- inequality in sentencing outcome for similarly situated co-defendant, without more, does not justify a departure from a properly calculated Guidelines range
Citator
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.