mail-fraud
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-911 | Laura Gaddy, et al. v. The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Tenth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response Waived | first-amendment institutional-fraud mail-fraud religious-organization rico wire-fraud | Does the First Amendment bar application of the federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as RICO predicates, to a religious organization's intentional co… |
| 25-837 | Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2026-01-15 | Pending | Response Waived | conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud pyramid-scheme securities-fraud sixth-circuit | 1. Whether by establishing a pyramid scheme, the Government can shortcut its burden of proving the necessary elements of conspiracy to commit mail fra… |
| 25A781 | Joquetta Riley v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-06 | Application | conspiracy joint-and-several-liability mail-fraud mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution vicarious-liability | Does the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) of 1996 — as codified within 18 U.S.C. § 3663A — allow courts to confer vicarious restitution liabil… | |
| 25A623 | Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-26 | Application | conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud mens-rea multi-level-marketing securities-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24-972 | Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | criminal-law false-statement government-investigation mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether a misrepresentation that does not concern the price or fundamental characteristics of property can give rise to a violation of the federal … | |
| 24A766 | Aghee William Smith, II v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-06 | Presumed Complete | conspiracy criminal-conviction fourth-circuit mail-fraud sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 24A737 | Frank Bell, Tyson Rhame, and James Shaw v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Presumed Complete | criminal-statute intent-to-defraud jury-instruction mail-fraud property-rights wire-fraud | Whether a misrepresentation that is designed to induce a transaction in property, but that does not concern the price or fundamental characteristics o… | |
| 24-5785 | Bernard Ross Hansen and Diane Renee Erdmann v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | IFP | criminal-fraud federal-statute mail-fraud property-deception statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether a scheme to induce a transaction in property through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitutes a scheme … |
| 24-286 | Peter Bolos v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-09-12 | Denied | Relisted (2) | deception federal-criminal-law mail-fraud property-interest statutory-interpretation transaction-scheme | Does a scheme to induce a transaction through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitute a scheme to defraud under… |
| 23-1321 | Jeffrey Batio v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | criminal-intent fraudulent-intent good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions mail-fraud misrepresentation misrepresentations wire-fraud | Proving federal mail or wire fraud requires proving a defendant's specific intent to defraud. A defendant's good faith that his representations are tr… | |
| 23-1205 | Wayne Johnson for Congress, Inc., et al. v. Jeremy C. Hunt, dba Jeremy for Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure dismissal eleventh-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure mail-fraud pleading-requirements pleading-standards wire-fraud | Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of Petitioners' suit due to the purported failure of Petitioners to comply with the heightened… |
| 23-985 | Yuri J. Stoyanov v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct mail-fraud pro-se-litigation standing summary-judgment wire-fraud | 1 In this pro se case Petitioner respectfully requests the US Supreme Court to intervene in this case, which is the ninth petition to this Court. I am… |
| 23-909 | Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-02-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (4)Relisted (3) | civil-rights commercial-exchange contract contract-law due-process mail-fraud property property-rights sovereign-interest wire-fraud | Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud, even if inflicting economic harm on the alleged victim was not th… |
| 23-832 | Moshe Porat v. United States | Third Circuit | 2024-02-02 | Denied | Relisted (5) | 18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 circuit-split commercial-deception commercial-exchange economic-harm federal-criminal-law mail-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343, even if the defendant does not i… |
| 23-6478 | Michael Alan Welker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-indictment deception due-process eighth-circuit fraud mail-fraud marital-property marriage property wire-fraud | Whether a husband's actions in deceiving his wife regarding marital property constitutes federal mail and wire fraud? |
| 23A538 | Stamatios Kousisis and Alpha Painting and Construction Co., Inc. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-12-12 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split economic-harm mail-fraud property-fraud spending-decision wire-fraud | Whether deceit aimed at influencing a victim's spending decision, without contemplating economic injury, is property fraud under the mail and wire fra… | |
| 22-7694 | Karl Ray Masek v. Rob Isonta, Attorney General of California, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-06-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy due-process federal-procedure law-enforcement mail-fraud racketeering retaliation rico-complaint standing | Petitioner contends California defendant officers, and agents engaged in conspiracy cover-up of corruption in promoting themselves, intimidation, stal… |
| 22-7142 | William Matthew Plump v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fraud legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation mail-fraud misrepresentation sentencing wire-fraud | The law of the Eighth Circit is that an attomey volates the federal mail andwi frand stattes 18 U.5.8 134 and 343, if thy Make Mat Misstatements or am… |
| 22-303 | Yuri J. Stoyanov v. Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights cover-up discrimination due-process federal-employment judicial-misconduct mail-fraud pro-se-petition standing | In this pro se case Petitioner respectfully requests the US Supreme Court to intervene in this case, which is the eighth petition to this Court. Petit… |
| 22-5554 | In Re Melvin T. Bell | 2022-09-12 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights deportation due-process federal-criminal-jurisdiction federal-criminal-procedure mail-fraud personal-liberty subject-matter-jurisdiction | 1. Whether or not Mr. Bell is restrained of his personal liberty by virtue of a judgment or order of a district court in which that district court had… | |
| 21-7720 | Matthew William Wheeler, aka Matthew Williams v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conspiracy criminal-intent mail-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct scheme-to-deceive scheme-to-defraud wire-fraud | 1. Whether the Government Must Prove an Intent to Harm as an Element in Establishing a Defendant's Participation in a "Scheme to Defraud" in Any Prose… |
| 21-1241 | Michael L. Binday v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-03-15 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | circuit-split due-process economic-decision fraud mail-fraud property-fraud property-rights right-to-control wire-fraud | Whether the Second Circuit's "right to control" theory of fraud — which treats the deprivation of complete and accurate information bearing on one's e… |
| 21-1169 | Alain Kaloyeros v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-24 | GVR | Relisted (3) | circuit-split mail-fraud mcnally-doctrine property property-fraud right-to-control scotus statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | Is the deprivation of accurate information regarding a transaction, without more, "property" under the wire fraud statute (18 U.S.C. § 1348), as the S… |
| 21-1161 | Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-02-23 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | 18-usc-1341 18-usc-1343 18-usc-1346 deception economic-information government-advocacy government-agency honest-services-fraud mail-fraud money-or-property-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether paying an influential private citizen to advocate one's position before a government agency can constitute honest services fraud under 18 U… |
| 21-5128 | Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split common-law-fraud criminal-law mail-fraud materiality statutory-interpretation transaction-essence wire-fraud | Under the mail fraud and wire fraud statutes, does an actionable scheme to defraud require, as an aspect of materiality, a falsehood which goes to the… |
| 20-8186 | Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation | DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR BY RULING THAT 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1716 PROHIBTS AS NON-MAILABLE AN INERT … |
| 20-6784 | Abdisalan Abulahab Hussein v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-01-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process fraud insurance insurance-claims mail-fraud medical-necessity patient-referral scheme-to-defraud standing wire-fraud | (1) Under the mail and wire fraud statutes, can a defendant be convicted where the purported victim insurance companies were not deprived of money or … |
| 20-767 | Jessica Arong O'Brien v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-12-07 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-fraud continuing-offense federal-insurance federally-insured-lender imputed-knowledge mail-fraud real-estate-transaction scheme-liability statute-of-limitations | 1. Whether under Loughrin, a real estate seller's knowledge of her buyer's federally-insured lender may be imputed to sustain a conviction under § 134… |
| 20-5808 | In Re Roger Liverman | 2020-09-25 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure court-access docket-manipulation due-process fraud-upon-court mail-fraud mandamus-writ misprision-felony standing writ-of-mandamus | Writ of Mandamus is the only "remedy " to correct the legal issues before the Court. Purpose of the Writ of Mandamus and Title 18 U.S.C. §4 Misprision… | |
| 19-1412 | Mark Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Amici (2) | common-law common-law-interpretation contract criminal-statute criminal-statutes false-promises federal-criminal-statutes fraud integration-clause mail-fraud right-to-control wire-fraud | Can an oral promise excluded from a fully-integrated written contract, which is unenforceable under the common law, be a "false or fraudulent…promise[… |
| 19-8615 | Vera Zhiry and Pyotr Bondaruk v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cross-examination federal-statute jurisdictional-hook mail-fraud materiality misrepresentation ninth-circuit remote-connection substantial-connection | 1. For the crime of mail fraud, what level of connection between the fraudulent scheme and the mailing is required to trigger the federal statute's ju… |
| 19-8526 | Quintez Talley v. Timothy Mazzocca, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-05-22 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights failure-to-state-claim judicial-discretion leave-to-amend mail-fraud pro-se-plaintiff racketeer-influenced-and-corrupt-organizations-act screening-phase standing supplemental-jurisdiction wire-fraud | 1. Does the Disability to Shoulder Concrete Financial Loss Demonstrate a Lack of Standing When Bringing 2 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizatio… |
| 19-1179 | Yuri J. Stoyanov v. James E. McPherson, Acting Secretary of the Navy, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Response Waived | case-consolidation civil-rights consolidation due-process federal-crimes fraud judicial-fraud mail-fraud obstruction-of-justice postal-service-records pro-se-petition wire-fraud | Question not identified. |
| 19-1125 | Steven Menzies v. Seyfarth Shaw LLP, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights continuity continuity-analysis due-process flexible-approach mail-fraud pleading-requirements racketeering racketeering-activity rico-pattern rico-pattern-of-racketeering tax-shelter wire-fraud | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit failed to apply this Court's mandated flexible approach to RICO's pattern of rac… |
| 19-1127 | Wheeler K. Neff v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-03-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | business-ownership civil-lawsuit mail-fraud money-or-property rico-conspiracy settlement-negotiations tribal-sovereign-immunity unlawful-debt wire-fraud | 1. Does a misrepresentation about the true identity of the owner of a business during settlement negotiations to resolve a civil lawsuit constitute a … |
| 19-7909 | Sidney P. Kilmartin v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assisted-suicide causation civil-rights due-process first-circuit free-speech legal-reasoning mail-fraud mailing-an-injurious-article mailing-injurious-article statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 19-7701 | Larry Douglas Kerns v. Mathew J. Wenner | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-service civil-procedure civil-rights default-judgment due-process erisa erisa-preemption fraud fraud-on-court judgment-by-default mail-fraud rico rico-act standing | (1) Will this court overturn, 9th circuit 's: case No. 18-56048 -11/12/2019 dkt No. 49 final Order 's: Denial of PROVEN Fraud on District Court and De… |
| 19-7469 | Olga Palamarchuk v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-29 | Denied | IFP | escobar evidence evidence-admissibility lender-conduct mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-interpretation recipient-behavior supreme-court-precedent | This case raises questions concerning the standard by which materiality is to be determined in a mail fraud case. The United States Supreme Court in U… |
| 19-7368 | Nadia Kuzmenko v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split escobar gaudin lindsey mail-fraud materiality objective-standard subjective-standard united-states-ex-rel-escobar-v-universal-health-se united-states-v-gaudin united-states-v-lindsey wire-fraud | Materiality is one of the essential elements of mail and wire fraud. Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 25 (1999). A false statement is "material" if… |
| 19-901 | Devon Drive Lionville, LP, et al. v. Parke Bank, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | causation-chain chain-of-causation civil-rico fdic fdic-regulation mail-fraud proximate-cause wire-fraud | What standards and criteria are appropriate in a civil RICO case to determine whether proximate cause exists for a plaintiff who is not the direct rec… | |
| 19-782 | Vahan Kelerchian v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-12-18 | Denied | carpenter criminal-prosecution mail-fraud mcnally property regulatory-authority right-to-control statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Does the "right to control" constitute "property" for purposes of wire and mail fraud in light of this Court's holding in McNally, Carpenter, Cleve… | |
| 19-495 | Martin Shkreli v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-10-16 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-fraud forfeiture-calculation good-faith good-faith-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions loss-causation mail-fraud materiality mens-rea no-ultimate-harm prosecutorial-standard securities-fraud statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | In prosecutions for mail, wire and bank fraud, which require a finding of a loss or an intended loss by the victim, a "no ultimate harm" instruction h… |
| 19-5805 | Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | civil-rights criminal-intent due-process federal-contracts fraud free-speech mail-fraud property-interest property-rights restitution-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud | 1. Is a mail or wire fraud conviction based on a sufficient property interest when a victim receives the full financial benefit of its bargain but, th… |
| 19-273 | Michael Binday v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-08-30 | Denied | constitutional-vagueness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel mail-fraud property-rights right-to-control vagueness wire-fraud | In mail and wire fraud cases, the government does not have to prove a victim actually lost money or property, but it does have to prove a scheme desig… | |
| 19-176 | R. David Weisskopf v. Jewish Agency for Israel, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | Response Waived | aiding-abetting aiding-and-abetting anti-filing-injunction circuit-split civil-rights domestic-injury extortion extraterritorial hobbs-act mail-fraud rico rico-act | Whether the appellate court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of this Court, and in a three-way split with the Third Circuit and … |
| 19-5464 | Mark A. Ciavarella, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | effective-assistance-of-counsel honest-services-mail-fraud ineffective-assistance jury-instructions mail-fraud mcdonnell-v-united-states official-act procedural-default statute-of-limitations | I. Whether Petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel as a result of the deprivation of a viable statute of limitations defense with respec… |
| 19-5159 | Quinetta Grant v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | should this Court vacate and remand for reconside was Ms Grant denied her rights under U.S.S.G. § 1 binding-authority criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-sentencing-right-to criminal-procedure-supervisory-power-conviction-se due-process judicial-discretion mail-fraud plain-error right-to-be-present sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-relevant-conduct-scope-of-cr sentencing-procedure Where Ms Grant's sentence was enhanced by attribut Where multiple additional errors affected petition | 1) Where the Court of Appeals failed to consider binding authority holding that a defendant's absence from a material sentencing proceeding constitute… |
| 19-5086 | Iris McClain v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | IFP | bankruptcy-fraud civil-procedure district-court emotional-distress false-and-deceitful-misrepresentation fourth-circuit fraud-upon-the-court infliction-of-emotional-distress mail-and-wire-fraud mail-fraud wire-fraud | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing the Bankruptcy Fraud (Cla… |
| 18-1552 | Henry P. Alfano and William Hird v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federalism mail-fraud property property-rights statutory-interpretation traffic-tickets unadjudicated-charges unadjudicated-tickets wire-fraud | Does the potential for collection of fines and costs which may become due to the state from unadjudicated traffic tickets, on which there has yet been… |
| 18-9412 | Amin A. Rashid v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-24 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-act criminal-act-concealment due-process evidentiary-hearing exoneration fundamental-defect judicial-misconduct mail-fraud miscarriage-of-justice neutral-judge section-2255 standing | Whether Undisputed Evidence Suggesting That The Trial Judge Was Acting To Conceal A Criminal Act Committed By Prior Judges In The Case Which Act If Ad… |
| 18-1336 | Walter P. Reed v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-04-24 | Denied | Response Waived | campaign-finance criminal-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture,statute-of-limitations,mail-fr criminal-prosecution custom-and-practice custom-and-practice,federal-mail-fraud,state-law,s due-process federal-law mail-fraud notice state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation wire-fraud | 1. Whether Petitioner was denied due process by the "lack of notice" of (1) the federal prosecutors' hindsight interpretation of the phrase "unrelated… |
| 18-8672 | Jack Holden v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-forfeiture criminal-liability due-process mail-fraud scheme-to-defraud separation-of-powers When Congress prescribed the mechanisms available wire-fraud | 1. When Congress defined the offenses of mail and wire fraud narrowly to punish only those who devise or intend to devise a scheme to defraud, do cour… |
| 18-8474 | John Henneberry v. County of Alameda, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment bench-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment mail-fraud qualified-immunity rico-statute service-of-process | 1. When deciding the matter of a no-bail bench warrant for failure to appear, can the court allow faulty and fabricated, misdirected service-by-mail o… |
| 18-1049 | Peter M. Hoffman, et al. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Amici (3) | criminal-law-fraud criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-acquittal criminal-procedure-burden-of-proof criminal-procedure-sufficiency-of-evidence due-process evidence evidentiary-standard jackson-v-virginia judgment-of-acquittal mail-fraud prosecutorial-burden regulatory-ambiguity standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence wire-fraud | 1. Whether a federal court must grant a motion for judgment of acquittal when, construing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, … |
| 18-6046 | Michael Skillern v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-counsel constitutional-error due-process extraterritorial-effect geders-v-united-states harmless-error mail-fraud perry-v-leeke sixth-amendment structural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction trial-recess wire-fraud | DID THE DISTRICT COURT'S ORDER PROHIBITING DEFENDANT SKILLERN, FROM CONFERRING WITH TRIAL COUNSEL DURING AN OVERNIGHT RECESS, REGARDING DEFENDANT SKIL… |
| 18-274 | Michael Jay Stewart v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-fraud jury-instructions kokesh-v-sec mail-fraud materiality materiality-standard naive-and-careless omissions-theory reasonably-prudent-victim sentencing-guidelines statute-of-limitations | 1. There is widespread conflict regarding the meaning of the federal criminal fraud statutes. While the confusion existed long before Neder v. United … |
| 18-11 | Kan-Di-Ki, LLC, dba Diagnostic Laboratories v. John Leslie Sorensen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | closed-ended-continuity continuity criminal-enterprise h.j-inc-v-northwestern-bell mail-fraud open-ended-continuity organized-crime-control-act pattern-of-racketeering racketeering racketeering-activity rico rico-act wire-fraud | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying a rigid, minimum time requirement for continuity instead of the flexible, multi-factor analysis employed b… |