criminal-fraud

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5785 Bernard Ross Hansen and Diane Renee Erdmann v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-18 Denied IFP criminal-fraud federal-statute mail-fraud property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, without harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme to defraud under f…
24-119 Alan Safahi v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-08-02 Denied civil-procedure contract-breach contract-law criminal-fraud criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-criminal-fraud federal-fraud fraudulent-inducement statutory-interpretation Whether a party who subsequently breaches a contract can be guilty of federal criminal fraud in the absence of fraudulent inducement
22-7418 Sammy Redi Araya v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-fraud government-failure judicial-discretion loss-amount loss-calculation plea-bargaining sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines victim-losses Whether a sentencing court is required to verify actual or intended victim losses when applying a U.S. Sentencing Guidelines enhancement
21-6840 Sandra Lee Bart v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-procedure criminal-fraud due-process fair-warning false-attestations fraud h2-guest-worker power-of-attorney regulatory-violation Was defendant deprived of due-process, fair-warning, power-of-attorney, false-attestations
20-1161 Edward J. Kosinski v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review confidentiality-agreement constitutional-vagueness criminal-fraud fiduciary-duty harmless-error insider-trading trust-and-confidence vagueness Whether a simple agreement to keep information confidential can establish criminal insider-trading-fraud
20-176 Pablo Calderon v. United States Second Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-action civil-fraud criminal-fraud decision-act letter-of-credit property-right property-rights statutory-law uniform-commercial-code Can a party in a criminal fraud action have a property right that applicable statutory law denies in a civil action?
18-274 Michael Jay Stewart v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) criminal-fraud jury-instructions kokesh-v-sec mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard naive-and-careless omissions-theory reasonably-prudent-victim sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations Whether the federal criminal fraud statutes maintain a reasonably prudent victim requirement