foreign-conduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5781 Troy George Skinner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-exploitation criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct interstate-commerce sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation One of the statutes addressing the sexual exploitation of children, 18 U.S.C. § 2251, prohibits (a) the employment, enticement, or coercion of a minor…
22-1055 Lee Elbaz, aka Lena Green v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-01 Denied circuit-split criminal-prosecution domestic-application domestic-transmission extraterritoriality foreign-conduct interstate-commerce wire-fraud The wire-fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, prohibits fraudulent schemes that use wire, radio, or television communications in interstate or foreign com…
21-1283 Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Amici (2) antitrust antitrust-law federal-rule-44.1 foreign-conduct foreign-law judicial-interpretation prescriptive-comity sherman-act statutory-interpretation Whether, despite this Court's "well established" interpretation of the Sherman Act, U.S. courts may reinterpret the same text of that Act case by case…
20-5026 James Daniel Arbaugh v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation criminal-law criminal-prosecution extraterritorial-jurisdiction foreign-conduct foreign-relations sovereignty statutory-construction Does the "power to regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations", in accordance with the United States Constitution art 1, § 8 cl. 3, include the prosecutio…
19-5946 Anthony Carl Spence v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process extraterritorial-application extraterritorial-jurisdiction extraterritoriality federal-sentencing foreign-conduct guidelines offense-level sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether, absent a clear indication of extraterritoriality, a federal sentencing court is permitted to enhance a defendant's offense level under the se…