quid-pro-quo
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-757 | Matthew Borges v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo | The First Amendment protects soliciting for, and contributing to, political campaigns based on policies that a candidate agrees to take while in offic… |
| 25-756 | Larry Householder v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | campaign-finance extortion first-amendment honest-services-fraud political-speech quid-pro-quo | The First Amendment's protection of political speech ensures that a political contribution will not constitute extortion under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 or h… |
| 25A414 | Larry Householder v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-10 | Presumed Complete | federal-prosecution hobbs-act official-misconduct public-corruption quid-pro-quo sixth-circuit | Whether a federal public corruption conviction under the Hobbs Act requires proof of an explicit quid pro quo exchange or can be sustained based on ci… | |
| 25-49 | Alexander Sittenfeld aka P. G. Sittenfeld v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Pending | Amici (12)Relisted (5) | bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo | The First Amendment protects soliciting and contributing funds to support a political candidate based on his or her intended policies. To avoid chilli… |
| 24-503 | Upstate Jobs Party, et al. v. Peter S. Kosinski, New York State Board of Elections Co-Chair Commissioner, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | campaign-finance contribution-limits first-amendment judicial-scrutiny political-speech quid-pro-quo | Whether mere hypothetical assertions and judicial common sense are sufficient to impose asymmetrical restrictions on political speech without evidence… |
| 24-142 | Brian Benjamin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-08-08 | Denied | Amici (2) | bribery campaign-contributions criminal-law explicit-agreement first-amendment quid-pro-quo | Does 'explicit' in the context of campaign contribution bribery mean a quid pro quo agreement that can be inferred or implied, or does it require a he… |
| 23-7754 | Alejandro Carrasco v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bribery circuit-split federal-bribery government-agent official-act public-corruption quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation | Does an external consultant qualify as a government agent under 18-usc-666 |
| 23A897 | Brian Benjamin v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Presumed Complete | bribery-statute campaign-contributions explicit-agreement first-amendment political-speech quid-pro-quo | Whether the First Amendment and McCormick v. United States require an explicit, unambiguous quid pro quo for criminal bribery charges involving campai… | |
| 23-845 | Timothy Ray Vasquez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response Waived | bribery criminal-procedure due-process honest-services-fraud official-act public-official quid-pro-quo quid-pro-quo-bribery statutory-interpretation | Does quid pro quo bribery permit conviction for honest services fraud if a public official received a benefit in exchange for a potential future offic… |
| 23-108 | James E. Snyder v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Judgment Issued | Amici (9) | 18-usc-666 circuit-split corruption criminal-law federal-bribery federal-crime government-business official-corruption quid-pro-quo state-local-official statutory-interpretation | Whether section 666 criminalizes gratuities |
| 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… |
| 21-6563 | Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida | Florida | 2021-12-09 | Denied | IFP | coerced-confessions coercive-police-activity colorado-v-connelly confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement-threats motivating-cause police-misconduct probable-cause quid-pro-quo voluntariness | Whether the appropriate interpretation of Colorado v. Connelly's 'essential link' between coercive police activity and a suspect's confession is a 'mo… |
| 21-6125 | Roberto Griego Jimenez v. Texas | Texas | 2021-10-29 | Denied | IFP | corroboration credibility criminal-informant fourth-amendment law-enforcement magistrate-warrant probable-cause quid-pro-quo reliability | Did the trial court and Texas Court of Appeals err in their Fourth Amendment analysis? |
| 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 | |
| 21-5081 | James Davis v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-07-13 | Denied | IFP | campaign-contributions evans-v-united-states explicit-quid-pro-quo extortion hobbs-act hobbs-act-extortion honest-services-fraud official-right overrule quid-pro-quo under-color-of-official-right | When-campaign-contributions-are-not-at-issue,-the-quid-pro-quo-need-not-be-explicit |
| 20-5131 | Michael Kimbrew v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bribery-of-public-official bribery-statute commercial-bribery due-process federal-employee ninth-circuit-interpretation official-act public-official quid-pro-quo statutory-interpretation sun-diamond | Is Kimbrew's expansive reading of § 201 unconstitutional? |
| 19-912 | Albert T. Robles v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bribery campaign-contribution campaign-contributions federal-officials federal-statute first-amendment hobbs-act quid-pro-quo | Whether conviction of a federal bribery charge against a state or local official under 18 U.S.C. § 666 requires proof of a quid pro quo where the alle… |
| 19-5632 | T. A., et al. v. Howard B. Leff, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violations domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity quid-pro-quo racketeering rooker-feldman standing sua-sponta-fiduciaries | Is it error to impose judicial immunity when the pleadings detail that NYS Judge and sua sponta appointed Part 36 Fiduciaries acted without jurisdicti… |
| 18-765 | James H. Brady v. New York, et al. | New York | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings | Did the Appellate Division, First Department err in finding Respondents immune pursuant to Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976)? |