instrumentality

Defense attorneys said the charge was improper because their clients weren’t trying to capture Arbery for ransom or some other benefit, and the trucks weren’t used as an “instrumentality of interstate commerce.”

In his ruling, Stein wrote that affidavits supporting requests for search warrants only needed to establish probable cause that searches would turn up “evidence, fruits, or instrumentalities of a crime.”

On Tuesday, lawmakers also advanced bills that would designate illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentalities as a crime of violence.

The majority concluded that, because the corporation is a "public instrumentality" and part of its government, the state of Missouri will be harmed by the student debt relief plan.

This issue is more complicated than most, in large measure because the industry directly affected is already accustomed to being an instrumentality of the federal government.