right-to-control
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5576 | Nadege Auguste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute money-or-property right-to-control wire-fraud | Whether employment and its employee benefits constitute 'money or property' under the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and whether concea… |
| 24A712 | Steven Aiello, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | criminal-prosecution federal-fraud-statute honest-services-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud | Whether the federal fraud statute's 'right to control' theory of honest services fraud is a valid basis for criminal prosecution after the Supreme Cou… | |
| 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… |
| 21-1170 | Louis Ciminelli v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-24 | Judgment Issued | Amici (5)Relisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-procedure economic-decision federal-statute fraud-statutes property-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud | Whether the Second Circuit's 'right to control' theory of fraud states a valid basis for liability under the federal wire fraud statute |
| 20-1414 | Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ali Razak, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-04-08 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split economic-reality employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor question-of-law right-to-control summary-judgment third-circuit | Whether application of the FLSA's 'economic reality' factors to undisputed facts is a question of fact that can preclude summary judgment |
| 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… |
| 19-782 | 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? | |
| 19-5805 | 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? | |
| 18A1302 | Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law government-funding loss-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud | Whether a circuit split exists regarding the 'right to control' theory of wire fraud and loss calculation in cases involving government funding and un… |