campaign-contributions
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5480 | Robert James McCabe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bribery-statute campaign-contributions corrupt-intent nexus-requirement official-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201(b), through its use of the term "in return for" requires some nexus or correlation between the un… |
| 24-142 | Brian Benjamin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Denied | Amici (2) | bribery campaign-contributions criminal-law explicit-agreement first-amendment quid-pro-quo | Where the government charges an elected official with bribery for accepting campaign contributions in exchange for lawful constituent services, McCorm… |
| 23-1112 | Ryan Cram, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-04-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 1st-amendment campaign-contributions campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-speech first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-employees public-sector union-political-funds | For nearly fifty years, this Court has held that public sector labor unions can fund political speech only through "charges, dues, or assessments paid… |
| 23A897 | Brian Benjamin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Presumed Complete | bribery-statute campaign-contributions explicit-agreement first-amendment political-speech quid-pro-quo | Question not identified. | |
| 23-510 | Dan Caulkins, et al. v. Jay Robert Pritzker, in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Illinois, et al. | Illinois | 2023-11-14 | Denied | Response Waived | campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey due-process equal-protection fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment guarantees-clause judicial-independence judicial-recusal second-amendment | Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Right to Fair Hearing and Guarantees Clause, Article IV, Sec. 4: 1. Does a self-evaluative review applying no object… |
| 22-1214 | Mohsin Mazhar Syed v. Texas | Texas | 2023-06-15 | Denied | campaign-contributions caperton-precedent caperton-v-a-t-massey-coal-co constitutional-conflict due-process impartial-judge judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality recusal recusal-standards | Whether the due process clause requires recusal of a judge who has received substantial campaign contributions from a party or the party's attorney in… | |
| 22-328 | Scott Allinson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-10-07 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery campaign-contributions circuit-conflict corruption evans-v-united-states legal-referral mccormick-v-united-states official-action prosecutorial-standard quid-pro-quo | Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Evans modified the explicit quid pro quo standard required by United States v. McCormick, or whether… |
| 21-5081 | James Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | IFP | campaign-contributions evans-v-united-states explicit-quid-pro-quo extortion hobbs-act hobbs-act-extortion honest-services-fraud official-right overrule quid-pro-quo under-color-of-official-right | When-campaign-contributions-are-not-at-issue,-the-quid-pro-quo-need-not-be-explicit |
| 19-1224 | Jeremiah F. Manning v. Lucy J. Kim | California | 2020-04-16 | Denied | campaign-contribution campaign-contributions disclosure due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal | Whether Judge Greenberg's refusal to recuse herself and failure to timely and accurately disclose campaign contributions violated the Due Process and … | |
| 19-912 | Albert T. Robles v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bribery campaign-contribution campaign-contributions federal-officials federal-statute first-amendment hobbs-act quid-pro-quo | Whether conviction of a federal bribery charge against a state or local official under 18 U.S.C. § 666 requires proof of a quid pro quo where the alle… |
| 19-212 | Hanh Thai Williams v. Succession of Fred Langford Houston | Louisiana | 2019-08-19 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-witness campaign-contributions civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-conduct judicial-ethics procedural-fairness recusal standing | Whether Armand Roos' participation as Plaintiff's attorney and primary witness was procedurally and evidentiary concern a violation of Due Process |
| 18-5396 | Calvin McMillan v. Alabama | Alabama | 2018-07-30 | Denied | IFP | appearance-of-bias campaign-contributions caperton-v-massey capital-punishment constitutional-standard due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias judicial-recusal post-conviction | Can a state court require a petitioner to establish actual, subjective bias to obtain judicial recusal even though this Court has held that the consti… |
| 18-93 | Donald Zimmerman v. City of Austin, Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) | aggregate-limit austin base-limit campaign-contributions campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law contribution-limits due-process election-law first-amendment standing | Whether Austin's $350 base limit on campaign contributions violates the First Amendment |