foreign-conduct
5 cases — ← All topics
| 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… |