literal-truth

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-1581 Michael Lowry, Robert Mulgrew, and Thomasine Tynes v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-26 Denied 18-usc-1623 ambiguous-questioning ambiguous-questions bronston-rule bronston-v-united-states false-declaration false-statements grand-jury grand-jury-testimony literal-truth perjury perjury-statute prosecutorial-questioning statutory-interpretation Can responses to fundamentally ambiguous questions - or literally truthful answers to unambiguous questions - constitute "false declarations" before a…
18-597 John Ching En Lee v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied agency-decision ambiguous-question false-statement false-statement-defense literal-truth materiality mens-rea real-world-context statutory-interpretation 1. When determining whether an alleged false statement has a literal truth defense, may a court isolate the ambiguous question or view it in the total…