...arguments based on the alleged overbreadth of § 5 (a). A It is settled that, as a matter of due process, a criminal statute that "fails to give a person of...contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute," United States v. Harris*, 347 US 612, 617 (1954), or is so indefinite that "it encourages arbitrary...

...view. The "void for vagueness" doctrine is more generally applied in criminal cases where a statute fails to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair...notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden by statute. Jordan v. De George, 341 US 223, 230 (1951) ; United States v. Harris* et al., 347 US 612,...

...§ 310 (b) violates the right of the people under the First Amendment to petition the Government. I. The constitutional requirement of definiteness is...contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute. The underlying principle is that no man shall be held criminally responsible for conduct which he could...

...Harriss, decided June 7, 1954, which sustained the validity of the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act: "The constitutional requirement of definiteness is...contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute. The underlying principle is that no man shall be held criminally responsible for conduct which he could...

...§ 310 (b) violates the right of the people under the First Amendment to petition the Government. I. The constitutional requirement of definiteness is...contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute. The underlying principle is that no man shall be held criminally responsible for conduct which he could...

...Harriss, decided June 7, 1954, which sustained the validity of the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act: "The constitutional requirement of definiteness is...contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute. The underlying principle is that no man shall be held criminally responsible for conduct which he could...

...Court. often been recognized by this Court. As was said in United States v. Harriss, 347 US 612, 617, "The constitutional requirement of definiteness is...contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute. The underlying principle is that no man shall be held criminally responsible for conduct which he could...

...laws which are vaguely worded. This constitutional requirement has variously been stated as follows : The constitutional requirement of definiteness is...contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute. The underlying principle is that no man shall be held criminally responsible for conduct which he could...

...offenses. United State* v. Harrigs, 347 US 612, 617 (1954) (a statute must be sufficiently definite "to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice...contemplated conduct is forbidden by the statute".) Elevating Antitrust Violations to the Status of Felonies The conforming amendments to SI make violations...

...405 US 156, 164 (1972). It is so "lacking in ascertainable standards of guilt, that * * * it fatlfsl to give a person of ordinary intelligence fair notice that his contemplated conduct is forbidden." Palmer v. City of Euclid. 402 US 544, 545 (1971). No standard of conduct whatsoever is specified. Government...