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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6364 Cedric Cromwell v. United States First Circuit 2025-01-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-liability extortion hobbs-act indian-tribes official-right sovereign-immunity Prior to the case at bar, there had never been a single appellate decision in the Hobbs Act's 78-year history, published or unpublished, extending cri…
21-5081 James Davis v. United States Third Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied IFP campaign-contributions evans-v-united-states explicit-quid-pro-quo extortion hobbs-act hobbs-act-extortion honest-services-fraud official-right overrule quid-pro-quo under-color-of-official-right 1. In McCormick v. United States, 500 U.S. 257 (1991), this Court held that a conviction for extorting a campaign contribution "under color of officia…