victim-definition
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-796 | Princewill Arinze Duru v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Denied | Response Waived | bank-fraud criminal-statute identity-theft means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines victim-definition | Title 18, United State Code, Section 1028A imposes a mandatory two-year consecutive sentence on anyone who "knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, w… |
| 25A636 | Princewell Arinze Duru v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | criminal-enhancement fraud-conspiracy identity-theft lawful-authority statutory-interpretation victim-definition | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7132 | Thomas G. O'Lear v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | healthcare-fraud insurance-company medicaid medicare offense-level-enhancement sentencing-guidelines victim-definition vulnerable-victim | United States Sentencing Guideline § 3A1.1 provides for a base offense level increase where the victim of the offense was vulnerable. In a case involv… |
| 23-6749 | Craig Alan Morrison v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-sentencing judicial-interpretation physical-restraint plain-text recurring-issue sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines victim-definition | Whether a defendant should receive an increased sentence under U.S.S.G. § 3A1.3 for having "physically restrained" a victim, where the conduct at issu… |
| 20-33 | Grace International Assembly of God v. Gennaro Festa, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-07-16 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process pattern-continuity predicate-acts racketeering-activity RICO rico-statute standing victim-definition wire-fraud | Whether only the entity sustaining the greatest direct injury may be considered a victim for the purposes of determining if there is closed- or open-e… | |
| 19-1407 | Mercy O. Ainabe v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response Waived | corporate-entities health-care-claims health-care-fraud loss-calculation medicare medicare-fraud relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines victim-definition | (1) Whether the Medicare beneficiaries whose health care treatments form the basis of fraudulent Medicare claims fit the definition of "victims" for p… |
| 18-9803 | Salvador Galvan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3553a appeal criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process guidelines procedural-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-2b1.1 victim victim-definition victim-impact | Whether, in a case involving embezzlement from a municipality, it is procedural error for a district court to consider every resident of the city a vi… |
| 18-29 | Shailendra Bhawnani, et al. v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | criminal-procedure criminal-restitution fraud judicial-discretion legal-scope mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution statutory-interpretation victim-compensation victim-definition | Whether the definition of "victim" under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act, 18 U.S.C. 3663A(a)(2), includes all victims directly and proximately h… |