misrepresentations

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
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…
18-7638	John Todd Williams v. United States	Second Circuit	2019-01-29	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-violation civil-violations consumer-protection criminal-prosecution debt-collection deceptive-tactics fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act fdcpa federal-law misrepresentations	Whether the courts below erroneously held that Mr. Williams and his companies could be prosecuted criminally, for acts his employees committed that ha…