fraud-statutes

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-794 John Pacilio and Edward Bases v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response Waived 2nd-amendment 35-usc-101 brown-vs-board civil-rights commodities-trading criminal-liability dodd-frank due-process fraud-statutes free-speech prosecutorial-discretion spoofing Whether spoofing violates the federal fraud statutes where a trader places a genuine, valid, fully executable order
23A418 Moshe Porat v. United States Third Circuit 2023-11-09 Presumed Complete deceit fraud-statutes monetary-transaction property-rights rankings wire-fraud Whether deceit that induces a monetary transaction constitutes federal wire fraud when the recipient receives the full benefit of the bargain
22-759 Michael Gramins v. United States Second Circuit 2023-02-13 Denied appellate-review civil-rights fraud fraud-statutes legal-interpretation materiality negotiating-position statutory-interpretation transaction-disclosure transaction-terms Whether, for purposes of the federal fraud statutes, misstatements are immaterial when they pertain only to a party's negotiating position and all ter…
21-1170 Louis Ciminelli v. United States, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-24 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) circuit-split criminal-procedure economic-decision federal-statute fraud-statutes property-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud Whether the Second Circuit's 'right to control' theory of fraud states a valid basis for liability under the federal wire fraud statute
19-667 Michael Baker v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied circuit-split common-law-definition criminal-code criminal-law fraud fraud-statutes honeycutt-v-united-states obtain-property property-rights sekhar-v-united-states statutory-interpretation Whether the statutory phrase 'obtain property' has the same meaning in the federal fraud statutes as it does in other federal criminal statutes