federal-bribery
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-855 | Shen Zhen New World I, LLC v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-11 | Denied | circuit-conflict federal-bribery gift-exchange legal-precedent official-action public-official | Does providing a gift to a public official in the hope or expectation that he will be receptive to a later request for official action constitute fede… | |
| 23-7754 | Alejandro Carrasco v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bribery circuit-split federal-bribery government-agent official-act public-corruption quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation | Does an external consultant qualify as a government agent under 18-usc-666 |
| 23A908 | Alejandro Carrasco v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-04-10 | Presumed Complete | anti-corruption-law federal-bribery municipal-contract official-act public-official statutory-interpretation | Whether a private attorney under contract with a municipality can be considered a 'public official' for purposes of federal bribery statutes under 18 … | |
| 23-108 | James E. Snyder v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9) | 18-usc-666 circuit-split corruption criminal-law federal-bribery federal-crime government-business official-corruption quid-pro-quo state-local-official statutory-interpretation | Whether section 666 criminalizes gratuities |
| 20-731 | Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness | Whether 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 suffers from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and overbreadth as 18 U.S.C.A. § 201 under McDonnell v. U.S. |