United States v. Arjona

United States v. Arjona
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 7, 1887
Full case name	United States v. Arjona
Citations	120 U.S. 479 (more)
Holding
It is not necessary for Congress to announce that a statute is intended to enforce international criminal law before that statute may be enforced under the Offenses Clause.
Court membership
Chief Justice Morrison Waite Associate Justices Samuel F. Miller · Stephen J. Field Joseph P. Bradley · John M. Harlan William B. Woods · Stanley Matthews Horace Gray · Samuel Blatchford
Case opinion
Majority	Waite, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Offenses Clause

United States v. Arjona, 120 U.S. 479 (1887), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that it is not necessary for Congress to announce that a statute is intended to enforce international criminal law before that statute may be enforced under the Offenses Clause.^[1][2]

The challenged law in this case criminalized the counterfeiting of foreign governments' securities.^[2]

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