honest-services
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-8 | Matthew Clark v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process honest-services statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness | I. Whether the undefined statutory language, "intangible right of honest services," in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 is unconstitutionally vague. II. Whether th… |
| 23-17 | Wisam R. Rizk v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery conflict-of-interest constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-jurisdiction honest-services statutory-interpretation undisclosed-self-dealing vagueness | Under §1346 Honest Services, can 'conflict of interest' and 'undisclosed self-dealing' be used as the underlying criterion of guilt even when a kickba… |
| 19-6076 | Tamela M. Lee v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-09-26 | Denied | IFP | constituent-contacts constitutional-limits criminal-conviction federal-officials government-contact hobbs-act honest-services mcdonnell-v-united-states municipal-officials official-act | Can a county official be convicted of Honest Services and Hobbs Act violations for contacting federal and municipal officials on behalf of constituent… |
| 18-518 | Charles G. Kinney v. Clerk, Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clean-water-act color-of-law due-process federal-clean-water-act free-speech hobbs-act honest-services judicial-discretion professional-speech state-nuisance-law | Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion in dismissing Kinney's appeals, violating his First Amendment rights and depriving him of due process,… | |
| 18-160 | Charles G. Kinney v. United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-discretion civil-rights civil-rights-violation civil-rights-violations due-process first-amendment hobbs-act honest-services judicial-discretion pre-filing-order prosecutorial-acts prosecutorial-misconduct | Did this Ninth Circuit panel abuse its discretion in issuing a global pre-filing review order against Kinney? |