fraud-statutes
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-794 | John Pacilio and Edward Bases v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment 35-usc-101 brown-vs-board civil-rights commodities-trading criminal-liability dodd-frank due-process fraud-statutes free-speech prosecutorial-discretion spoofing | The question presented is whether spoofing violates the federal fraud statutes where a trader places a genuine, valid, fully executable order. |
| 23A418 | Moshe Porat v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Presumed Complete | deceit fraud-statutes monetary-transaction property-rights rankings wire-fraud | Whether deceit to induce a transaction, without more, is sufficient to prove wire fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1384)—regardless of whether fair value is exchang… | |
| 22-759 | Michael Gramins v. United States | Second Circuit | 2023-02-13 | Denied | appellate-review civil-rights fraud fraud-statutes legal-interpretation materiality negotiating-position statutory-interpretation transaction-disclosure transaction-terms | Whether, for purposes of the federal fraud statutes, misstatements are immaterial when they pertain only to a party's negotiating position and all ter… | |
| 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—which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on a person'… |
| 19-667 | Michael Baker v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | circuit-split common-law-definition criminal-code criminal-law fraud fraud-statutes honeycutt-v-united-states obtain-property property-rights sekhar-v-united-states statutory-interpretation | The federal fraud statutes define the offense of fraud as a scheme to "obtain[ ] money or property" by deceptive means. 18 U.S.C. § 1343; see also 18 … |