right-to-control
11 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5576 | Nadege Auguste v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-statute money-or-property right-to-control wire-fraud | I. Do employment and its employee benefits constitute the "money or property" of the employer for the purpose of the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.… |
| 24A712 | Steven Aiello, et al. v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-01-21 | Denied | criminal-prosecution federal-fraud-statute honest-services-fraud right-to-control second-circuit wire-fraud | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 21-1170 | 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'… |
| 20-1414 | Uber Technologies, Inc., et al. v. Ali Razak, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-04-08 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split economic-reality employee-classification fair-labor-standards-act independent-contractor question-of-law right-to-control summary-judgment third-circuit | This Court has long held that whether a worker is an employee for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") turns on the "economic reality" of… |
| 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[… |
| 19-782 | 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… | |
| 19-5805 | 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… | |
| 18A1302 | Mahmoud Aldissi, et ux. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split criminal-law government-funding loss-calculation right-to-control wire-fraud | Question not identified. |