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In April of 1989, Maguire moved to add MPB as a direct defendant. 6 In February of 1989, based upon the report of one of Maguire's experts who concluded that a defectively designed engine ball bearing caused Maguire's helicopter to crash, Allison filed a third party complaint against MPB Corporation (MPB), the designer and manufacturer of the ball bearing. Maguire has not appealed from this order. The district court granted the motion in favor of McDonnell Douglas on November 23, 1988. 5 On October 5, 1988, Hughes, which had become the McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company (McDonnell Douglas), moved for summary judgment. 1332 (West 1966 & Supp.1990) because Maguire did not share the same citizenship as either of the defendants and the dollar figure in controversy exceeded the then-applicable amount of $10,000, exclusive of interest and costs. The district court had subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. 4 In November of 1987, Allison removed the suit to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. In his complaint, Maguire alleged that his motorcycle crash was a result of injuries he sustained in the helicopter crash and that Hughes and Allison were responsible for the injuries sustained in both incidents. 3 In August of 1987, Maguire brought suit in the Law Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Monmouth County, against Hughes Aircraft Corporation (Hughes), the manufacturer of the helicopter, and Allison Gas Turbine Division of General Motors Corporation (Allison), the manufacturer of the helicopter's engine. On August 18, 1984, four days after the crash landing, Maguire lost consciousness while driving his motorcycle and collided with a curb, sustaining serious injuries. Two days following the crash, an Army flight surgeon certified that Maguire was able to return to active flight status. Doctors who examined Maguire on the night of the crash and the next day concluded that the only injuries he suffered were minor bruises to his back. Maguire, III (Maguire), was forced to crash land the helicopter he was piloting while on duty for the New Jersey Army National Guard. 2 On the night of August 14, 1984, appellant Edward J. 1 In this appeal, we must decide whether the district court correctly granted summary judgment in favor of a military contractor and its subcontractor under the government contractor defense that th e Supreme Court reformulated in Boyle v. OPINION OF THE COURT HUTCHINSON, Circuit Judge. Justice Kavanaugh dissented, warning that РІР‚Сљcrime and firearms form a dangerous mix,РІР‚Сњ advocating for the conduct-based approach, and expressing skepticism at the decision РІР‚Сљto strike down a 33-year-old, often-prosecuted federal criminal law because it is all of a sudden unconstitutionally vague.РІР‚Сњ The majority countered that it is the dissent, not the majority, suddenly giving the residual clause a new meaning, as the government conceded that the clause is unconstitutional РІР‚Сљif it means what everyone has understood it to mean in nearly all of those prosecutions over all of those years. While acknowledging that using the conduct-based approach from Ovalles would avoid the vagueness concerns attendant in the categorical approach, the Court noted that it has never employed the canon of constitutional avoidance to expand the reach of a criminal statute and that doing so would be in conflict with the doctrine of vagueness and the rule of lenity. The Court held that the text, context, and history of Р’В§ 924(c) demanded that the categorical approach be used, as did the statutes at issue in Johnson and Dimaya. United States and sealing the residual clauseРІР‚в„ўs fate as unconstitutionally vague.

The Court further held that Р’В§ 924(c) requires courts to apply the РІР‚Сљcategorical approachРІР‚Сњ in determining whether a crime is a РІР‚Сљcrime of violenceРІР‚Сњ under the residual clause, rejecting the Eleventh CircuitРІР‚в„ўs РІР‚Сљconduct-based approachРІР‚Сњ in Ovalles v. The Court employed the same reasoning from Johnson and Sessions, which held that the residual clause failed to provide fair notice to defendants by requiring judges to engage in speculative abstraction to define РІР‚Сљcrimes of violence.РІР‚Сњ Dimaya, the residual clause of Р’В§ 924(c) defined a crime of violence as any felony РІР‚Сљthat by its nature, involves a substantial riskРІР‚Сњ that physical force will be used. Similar to the clauses struck down in Johnson v. Р’В§ 924(c), which criminalizes carrying a firearm in connection with a РІР‚Сљcrime of violenceРІР‚Сњ or drug trafficking crime, as unconstitutionally vague. Resolving a circuit split, the Supreme Court struck down the residual clause of 18 U.S.C.

Р’В§ 924(c) defining a РІР‚Сљcrime of violenceРІР‚Сњ is unconstitutionally vague. Firearm Offenses/924(c) Crimes РІР‚вЂњ The residual clause of 18 U.S.C.

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