federal-bribery
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… | |
| 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 | I. Does an external consultant retained by a state or local government qualify as a government "agent" subject to prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 666 wh… |
| 23A908 | Alejandro Carrasco v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-04-10 | Presumed Complete | anti-corruption-law federal-bribery municipal-contract official-act public-official statutory-interpretation | 1) Whether a legal services contract between a private-practice attorney and a municipality automatically transform the private practitioner into a go… | |
| 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, i.e., payments in recognition of actions the official has already taken or committed to take, without any… |
| 20-731 | Paul Winfield v. United States Probation & Pretrial Services, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 18-USC-201 18-USC-666 constitutional-vagueness criminal-law federal-bribery McDonnell-v-US overbreadth statutory-interpretation statutory-overbreadth supreme-court-precedent vagueness | Since 18 U.S.C.A. § 666 is even broader than other federal bribery statutes, does it suffer from the same constitutional infirmities of vagueness and … |