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U.S. v. ONE BIG SIX WHEEL

No. 497, Docket 98-6028.

166 F.3d 498 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ONE BIG SIX WHEEL, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 29, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lauren Resnick, Assistant United States Attorney, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Zachary W. Carter, United States Attorney, Eastern District of New York; Susan Corkery, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Gerard E. Harper, New York, N.Y. (Michael E. Gertzman, Roberto Finzi, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: NEWMAN and JACOBS, Circuit Judges, and BURNS, District Judge.

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

The Gambling Ship Act, codified at 18 U.S.C. §§ 1081-1084 (1994), prohibits offshore gaming except on certain voyages beyond "the territorial waters of the United States." 18 U.S.C. § 1081; see 18 U.S.C. § 1082. This in rem civil forfeiture action, brought by the United States against a shipboard gambling device, requires us to decide whether the recent expansion of "federal criminal jurisdiction" from three...

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