official-action

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-461 Edward Mangano v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived criminal-conviction fiduciary-duty government-official honest-services-fraud official-action political-influence Whether an official in one government may be convicted of honest services fraud when his only alleged "official action" was using his "tremendous poli…
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…
22-328 Scott Allinson v. United States Third Circuit 2022-10-07 Denied Response Waived bribery campaign-contributions circuit-conflict corruption evans-v-united-states legal-referral mccormick-v-united-states official-action prosecutorial-standard quid-pro-quo Whether this Court's decision in United States v. Evans modified the explicit quid pro quo standard required by United States v. McCormick, or whether…
21-706 Joel Iverson Gilbert v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied bribery bribery-statute federal-bribery-laws first-amendment issue-advocacy jury-instruction jury-instructions official-action prosecutorial-standard Whether the government must prove explicit link between issue-advocacy payments and official action in bribery prosecution
21-605 David Lynn Roberson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied bribery bribery-prosecution circuit-split civil-rights due-process federal-programs first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy official-action quid-pro-quo Whether the government must prove explicit link between issue-advocacy payments and official action in bribery prosecution