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Portrait of Abe Fortas Abe Fortas Travis v. United States (385 U.S. 491…

We have today held that area restrictions upon the use of an otherwise valid passport are not criminally enforceable under § 215 (b) . Because the Government did not allege, and introduced no proof, that petitioner did not bear a valid passport on each of the occasions on which she departed for Cuba, via Mexico, our decision in Laub, supra, requires that her conviction be reversed.
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