Petition of the day
By Aurora Barnes
on Apr 27, 2018

The west wall frieze
The petition of the day is:
17-1314
Issue: Whether, in a federal fraud prosecution involving a private victim, materiality turns on the misrepresentation’s ability to influence the actual decisionmaker to which it was addressed, as three circuits have held, or instead on its ability to influence a hypothetical “reasonable person,” as six circuits have held.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Raza v. United States
Recommended Citation:
Aurora Barnes,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Apr. 27, 2018, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/04/petition-of-the-day-1372/