intent-to-defraud

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-837 Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud pyramid-scheme securities-fraud sixth-circuit 1. Whether by establishing a pyramid scheme, the Government can shortcut its burden of proving the necessary elements of conspiracy to commit mail fra…
25A623 Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-26 Application conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud mens-rea multi-level-marketing securities-fraud Whether a defendant may be convicted of a federal fraud conspiracy without a jury finding of specific intent to defraud
24-7325 Tracie L. Green, aka Tracie Ledora Mitchem-Green v. US Bank National Association Fourth Circuit 2025-05-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bank-misconduct civil-litigation false-statements foreclosure-fraud intent-to-defraud property-theft Are the elements of fraud satisfied in this foreclosure case involving U.S. Bank National's alleged scheme to steal property?
24A737 Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-27 Presumed Complete criminal-statute intent-to-defraud jury-instruction mail-fraud property-rights wire-fraud Whether a misrepresentation about a transaction that does not directly impact the fundamental characteristics or price of the property can constitute …
23-631 Hollis Morrison Greenlaw, et al. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instructions scheme-to-defraud structural-error Whether harmless-error analysis of jury instructions that omitted or misdefined an element must decline to find that constitutional error harmless
22-1020 H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. v. Unicolors, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response Waived actual-knowledge civil-action copyright-act copyright-act-1976 copyright-infringement copyright-registration intent-to-defraud knowledge-standard scienter statutory-interpretation Whether § 411(b)(1)(A)'s 'knowledge' element requires 'actual knowledge,' as this Court held, or 'intent to defraud,' as the Ninth Circuit held on rem…
22-853 Donald V. Watkins, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-08 Denied Response Waived accredited-investors conspiracy corporate-governance intent-to-defraud ongoing-business risk-disclosure statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether the Court of Appeals erred in sustaining a wire-fraud-conspiracy conviction where the rights and obligations between the petitioner and invest…
21-6115 Jaime Mayorga v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP chapman-v-california criminal-conviction criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instruction jury-instructions ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-neder Did the Ninth Circuit's disposition of Petitioner's instructional error claim, which did not examine evidence Petitioner proffered regarding his lack …
20-7062 Alfred L. Cross v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-fraud constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment-defect intent intent-to-defraud jurisdiction materiality materiality-element plea-bargaining Whether the Decision below squarely conflicts with McCarthy v. United States and Neder v. United States, where Mr. Cross Held a Constitutional Right t…
18-6660 Mustafa Hasan Arif v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 15-usc-52-57 advertising-law civil-procedure criminal-intent false-advertising first-circuit intent-to-defraud intent-to-harm non-prescription-drugs statutory-interpretation wire-fraud Whether petitioner was wrongly prosecuted under the Wire Fraud statute