skilling-standard

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-729 Shirene Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied Response Waived civil-rights criminal-law due-process federal-circuits fiduciary-duty honest-services-fraud ninth-circuit-precedent skilling-standard skilling-v-united-states statutory-interpretation The Court avoided a "vagueness shoal" in Skilling by holding that 18 U.S.C. § 1346's prohibition on schemes targeting "the intangible right of honest …