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U.S. v. Nader (9th Cir. - Sept. 5, 2008)

By Shaun Martin

Your prostition business may well be exclusively in-state. All of the phone calls that your customers make to you may well be in-state calls. But you can still be convicted of violating the federal Travel Act because your use of a telephone is a "facility" of interstate commerce. So holds Judge Clifton.

Pretty expansive view of the Interstate Commerce Clause, eh?

Prostitues in (as here) Montana, or other relatively isolated states (e.g., Alaksa and Hawaii), beware.

Full post as published by California Appellate Report on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).