bribery-statute
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5480 | Robert James McCabe v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bribery-statute campaign-contributions corrupt-intent nexus-requirement official-act statutory-interpretation | Whether the federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. § 201(b), through its use of the term "in return for" requires some nexus or correlation between the un… |
| 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 | Question not identified. | |
| 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 | 1. Whether, in a bribery prosecution based on issue-advocacy payments that would otherwise enjoy First Amendment protection, the Government must prove… | |
| 21-243 | James Warner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-18 | Denied | bribery-statute constructive-amendment criminal-procedure indictment indictment-modification jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights | Whether the constructive amendment of an indictment by an erroneous jury instruction, stating that conspiracy counts alleged agreements to violate a d… | |
| 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? |
| 18-6117 | Josette Buendia v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arthur-anderson bribery-statute circuit-split corrupt-intent criminal-intent federal-bribery-statute judicial-precedent school-vendor sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rooney | In Arthur Anderson LLP v. United States, this Court held that only people with immoral, depraved, wrongful, or evil motive, only people conscious of t… |