| 25-911 |
Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud |
Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co… |
| 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 |
Whether the Government can establish a pyramid scheme by shortcutting its burden of proving conspiracy elements and intent to defraud, and whether jur… |
| 25A781 |
Joquetta Riley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Application |
|
conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability |
Whether the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act permits vicarious liability for conspiracy defendants based on the total foreseeable losses of a co-cons… |
| 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 |
| 24-972 |
Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
|
criminal-law false-statement government-investigation mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether a misrepresentation that does not concern the price or fundamental characteristics of property can give rise to a violation of federal mail an… |
| 24A766 |
Aghee William Smith, II v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
conspiracy criminal-conviction fourth-circuit mail-fraud sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud |
Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly applied the standard for reviewing the sufficiency of evidence in a federal wire fraud and mail fraud conspiracy … |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 24-286 |
Peter Bolos v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
deception federal-criminal-law mail-fraud property-interest statutory-interpretation transaction-scheme |
Does a scheme to induce a transaction through deception, without harming any property interest, constitute mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1341? |
| 23-1321 |
Jeffrey Batio v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
|
criminal-intent fraudulent-intent good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions mail-fraud misrepresentation misrepresentations wire-fraud |
Does it improperly deprive a defendant of his defense of good faith when a jury is instructed that, if the jury finds any 'false and fraudulent repres… |
| 23-1205 |
Wayne Johnson for Congress, Inc., et al. v. Jeremy C. Hunt, dba Jeremy for Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure dismissal eleventh-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mail-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards wire-fraud |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' suit due to the purported failure of Petitioners to comply with the heightened… |
| 23-985 |
Yuri J. Stoyanov v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct mail-fraud pro-se-litigation standing summary-judgment wire-fraud |
Whether the district court judge committed fraud upon the court by intentionally planned and executed federal crimes of Mail Fraud and Wire Fraud to d… |
| 23-909 |
Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights commercial-exchange contract contract-law due-process mail-fraud property property-rights sovereign-interest wire-fraud |
Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud, even if inflicting economic harm on the alleged victim was not th… |
| 23-832 |
Moshe Porat v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 circuit-split commercial-deception commercial-exchange economic-harm federal-criminal-law mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343, even if the defendant does not i… |
| 23-6478 |
Michael Alan Welker v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-indictment deception due-process eighth-circuit fraud mail-fraud marital-property marriage property wire-fraud |
Whether a husband's actions in deceiving his wife regarding marital property constitutes federal mail and wire fraud? |
| 23A538 |
Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split economic-harm mail-fraud property-fraud spending-decision wire-fraud |
Whether deceit that merely influences a victim's spending decision, without contemplating tangible economic injury, constitutes property fraud under t… |
| 22-7694 |
Karl Ray Masek v. Rob Isonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy due-process federal-procedure law-enforcement mail-fraud racketeering retaliation rico-complaint standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's RICO and BIVENS complaints |
| 22-7142 |
William Matthew Plump v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fraud legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation mail-fraud misrepresentation sentencing wire-fraud |
Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits the government from using criminal fraud to punish or penalize an attorney for immaterial misstatements or om… |
| 22-303 |
Yuri J. Stoyanov v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights cover-up discrimination due-process federal-employment judicial-misconduct mail-fraud pro-se-petition standing |
Whether the Supreme Court should intervene to reverse the district court's orders that denied discovery, depositions, hearings, and investigations int… |
| 22-5554 |
In Re Melvin T. Bell |
|
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights deportation due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure mail-fraud personal-liberty subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether Mr. Bell is restrained of his personal liberty due to lack of jurisdiction |
| 21-7720 |
Matthew William Wheeler, aka Matthew Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conspiracy criminal-intent mail-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct scheme-to-deceive scheme-to-defraud wire-fraud |
Whether the Government Must Prove an Intent to Harm as an Element in Establishing a Defendant's Participation in a 'Scheme to Defraud' in Any Prosecut… |
| 21-1241 |
Michael L. Binday v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
circuit-split due-process economic-decision fraud mail-fraud property-fraud property-rights right-to-control wire-fraud |
Whether the Second Circuit's 'right to control' theory of fraud is a valid basis for a conviction under the federal mail and wire fraud statutes |
| 21-1169 |
Alain Kaloyeros v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-24 |
GVR |
Relisted (3) |
circuit-split mail-fraud mcnally-doctrine property property-fraud right-to-control scotus statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Is the deprivation of accurate information regarding a transaction, without more, 'property' under the wire fraud statute (18 U.S.C. § 1348), as the S… |
| 21-1161 |
Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 deception economic-information government-advocacy government-agency honest-services-fraud mail-fraud money-or-property-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether paying an influential private citizen to advocate one's position before a government agency can constitute honest services fraud under 18 U.S.… |
| 21-5128 |
Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split common-law-fraud criminal-law mail-fraud materiality statutory-interpretation transaction-essence wire-fraud |
Under the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes, does an actionable scheme to defraud require, as an aspect of materiality, a falsehood which goes to the… |
| 20-8186 |
Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by ruling that 18 United States Code Section 1716 prohibits as non-mailable an inert… |
| 20-6784 |
Abdisalan Abulahab Hussein v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fraud insurance insurance-claims mail-fraud medical-necessity patient-referral scheme-to-defraud standing wire-fraud |
Whether a defendant can be convicted of mail and wire fraud where the purported victim insurance companies were not deprived of money or property beca… |
| 20-767 |
Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bank-fraud continuing-offense federal-insurance federally-insured-lender imputed-knowledge mail-fraud real-estate-transaction scheme-liability statute-of-limitations |
Whether under Loughrin, a real estate seller's knowledge of her buyer's federally-insured lender may be imputed to sustain a conviction under § 1344, … |
| 20-5808 |
In Re Roger Liverman |
|
2020-09-25 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure court-access docket-manipulation due-process fraud-upon-court mail-fraud mandamus-writ misprision-felony standing writ-of-mandamus |
Writ of Mandamus to Correct Fraud Upon the Court |
| 19-1412 |
Mark Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
common-law common-law-interpretation contract criminal-statute criminal-statutes false-promises federal-criminal-statutes fraud integration-clause mail-fraud right-to-control wire-fraud |
Can an oral promise excluded from a fully-integrated written contract, which is unenforceable under the common law, be a 'false or fraudulent...promis… |
| 19-8615 |
Vera Zhiry and Pyotr Bondaruk v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cross-examination federal-statute jurisdictional-hook mail-fraud materiality misrepresentation ninth-circuit remote-connection substantial-connection |
What level of connection between the fraudulent scheme and the mailing is required to trigger the federal statute's jurisdictional hook? |
| 19-8526 |
Quintez Talley v. Timothy Mazzocca, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights failure-to-state-claim judicial-discretion leave-to-amend mail-fraud pro-se-plaintiff racketeer-influenced-and-corrupt-organizations-act screening-phase standing supplemental-jurisdiction wire-fraud |
Does the inability to show concrete financial loss deprive a plaintiff of standing when bringing a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RIC… |
| 19-1179 |
Yuri J. Stoyanov v. James E. McPherson, Acting Secretary of the Navy, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-consolidation civil-rights consolidation due-process federal-crimes fraud judicial-fraud mail-fraud obstruction-of-justice postal-service-records pro-se-petition wire-fraud |
Whether the lower courts committed judicial fraud and intentionally covered up the defendants' federal crimes, including mail fraud and wire fraud, by… |
| 19-1125 |
Steven Menzies v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights continuity continuity-analysis due-process flexible-approach mail-fraud pleading-requirements racketeering racketeering-activity rico-pattern rico-pattern-of-racketeering tax-shelter wire-fraud |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit failed to apply this Court's mandated flexible approach to RICO's pattern of racket… |
| 19-1127 |
Wheeler K. Neff v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
business-ownership civil-lawsuit mail-fraud money-or-property rico-conspiracy settlement-negotiations tribal-sovereign-immunity unlawful-debt wire-fraud |
Does a misrepresentation about the true identity of the owner of a business during settlement negotiations constitute mail/wire fraud? |
| 19-7909 |
Sidney P. Kilmartin v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
assisted-suicide causation civil-rights due-process first-circuit free-speech legal-reasoning mail-fraud mailing-an-injurious-article mailing-injurious-article statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Circuit's reasoning on causation issues attendant to assisted suicide is at odds with this Court's case-law and the states' view of … |
| 19-7701 |
Larry Douglas Kerns v. Mathew J. Wenner |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-service civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process erisa erisa-preemption fraud fraud-on-court judgment-by-default mail-fraud rico rico-act standing |
Will this court overturn the 9th circuit's denial of proven fraud on the district court and denial of Mr. Kerns' request for judgment by default? |
| 19-7469 |
Olga Palamarchuk v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
escobar evidence evidence-admissibility lender-conduct mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-interpretation recipient-behavior supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard for materiality in a mail fraud case is determined by the likely behavior of the recipient of the alleged misrepresentations |
| 19-7368 |
Nadia Kuzmenko v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split escobar gaudin lindsey mail-fraud materiality objective-standard subjective-standard united-states-ex-rel-escobar-v-universal-health-se united-states-v-gaudin united-states-v-lindsey wire-fraud |
Whether materiality in mail and wire fraud cases is based on the subjective standard in Gaudin and Escobar or the objective standard in Lindsey |
| 19-901 |
Devon Drive Lionville, LP, et al. v. Parke Bank, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
|
causation-chain chain-of-causation civil-rico fdic fdic-regulation mail-fraud proximate-cause wire-fraud |
What standards and criteria are appropriate in a civil RICO case to determine whether proximate cause exists for a plaintiff who is not the direct rec… |
| 19-782 |
Vahan Kelerchian v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
|
carpenter criminal-prosecution mail-fraud mcnally property regulatory-authority right-to-control statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Does the 'right to control' constitute 'property' for purposes of wire and mail fraud? |
| 19-495 |
Martin Shkreli v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bank-fraud forfeiture-calculation good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions loss-causation mail-fraud materiality mens-rea no-ultimate-harm prosecutorial-standard securities-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether a 'no ultimate harm' instruction in a securities fraud prosecution causes prejudicial jury confusion by effectively holding the accused to a h… |
| 19-5805 |
Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
civil-rights criminal-intent due-process federal-contracts fraud free-speech mail-fraud property-interest property-rights restitution-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud |
Is a mail or wire fraud conviction based on a sufficient property interest when a victim receives the full financial benefit of its bargain but, throu… |
| 19-273 |
Michael Binday v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-vagueness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-fraud property-rights right-to-control vagueness wire-fraud |
Is a trial lawyer constitutionally ineffective when he embraces a legal argument directly contrary to existing circuit law? |
| 19-176 |
R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act |
Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and … |
| 19-5464 |
Mark A. Ciavarella, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
effective-assistance-of-counsel honest-services-mail-fraud ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mail-fraud mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act procedural-default statute-of-limitations |
Whether Petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel as a result of the deprivation of a viable statute of limitations defense with respect t… |
| 19-5159 |
Quinetta Grant v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in failing to consider binding authority on a defendant's right to be present at a material sentencing proceeding |
| 19-5086 |
Iris McClain v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
bankruptcy-fraud civil-procedure district-court emotional-distress false-and-deceitful-misrepresentation fourth-circuit fraud-upon-the-court infliction-of-emotional-distress mail-and-wire-fraud mail-fraud wire-fraud |
Whether the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing the Bankruptcy Fraud (Claim … |
| 18-1552 |
Henry P. Alfano and William Hird v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federalism mail-fraud property property-rights statutory-interpretation traffic-tickets unadjudicated-charges unadjudicated-tickets wire-fraud |
Whether unadjudicated traffic tickets constitute 'property' under the mail- and wire-fraud statutes |
| 18-9412 |
Amin A. Rashid v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-act criminal-act-concealment due-process evidentiary-hearing exoneration fundamental-defect judicial-misconduct mail-fraud miscarriage-of-justice neutral-judge section-2255 standing |
Whether Undisputed Evidence Suggesting That The Trial Judge Was Acting To Conceal A Criminal Act Committed By Prior Judges In The Case Which Act If Ad… |
| 18-1336 |
Walter P. Reed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-finance criminal-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture,statute-of-limitations,mail-fr criminal-prosecution custom-and-practice custom-and-practice,federal-mail-fraud,state-law,s due-process federal-law mail-fraud notice state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process by lack of notice of the federal prosecutors' interpretation of a state campaign finance statute and an … |
| 18-8672 |
Jack Holden v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-forfeiture criminal-liability due-process mail-fraud scheme-to-defraud separation-of-powers When Congress prescribed the mechanisms available wire-fraud |
When Congress defined the offenses of mail and wire fraud narrowly to punish only those who devise or intend to devise a scheme to defraud, do courts … |
| 18-8474 |
John Henneberry v. County of Alameda, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment bench-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment mail-fraud qualified-immunity rico-statute service-of-process |
When can a court allow faulty and fabricated service-by-mail of a criminal summons instead of personal service-by-sworn-officer? |
| 18-1049 |
Peter M. Hoffman, et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
criminal-law-fraud criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal criminal-procedure-burden-of-proof criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence due-process evidence evidentiary-standard jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal mail-fraud prosecutorial-burden regulatory-ambiguity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud |
Whether a federal court must grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when, construing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, evi… |
| 18-6046 |
Michael Skillern v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
access-to-counsel constitutional-error due-process extraterritorial-effect geders-v-united-states harmless-error mail-fraud perry-v-leeke sixth-amendment structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-recess wire-fraud |
did-the-district-court-violate-the-sixth-amendment |
| 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 |
| 18-11 |
Kan-Di-Ki, LLC, dba Diagnostic Laboratories v. John Leslie Sorensen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
closed-ended-continuity continuity criminal-enterprise h.j-inc-v-northwestern-bell mail-fraud open-ended-continuity organized-crime-control-act pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act wire-fraud |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying a rigid, minimum time requirement for continuity instead of the flexible, multi-factor analysis employed b… |