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Docket No. | Op. Below | Argument | Opinion | Vote | Author | Term |
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21-1161 | 2nd Cir. | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Issues: (1) Whether paying an influential private citizen to advocate one’s position before a government agency can constitute honest services fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1346; and (2) whether deception that deprives a person of “potentially valuable economic information,” without more, can constitute “money or property” fraud under the federal mail and wire fraud statutes.
Date | Proceedings and Orders |
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Jan 07 2022 | Application (21A298) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until March 1, 2022. |
Feb 18 2022 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 25, 2022) |
Mar 17 2022 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 25, 2022 to April 25, 2022, submitted to The Clerk. |
Mar 21 2022 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 25, 2022. |
Mar 24 2022 | Brief amicus curiae of New York Council of Defense Lawyers filed. VIDED. |
Mar 25 2022 | Brief amici curiae of Criminal Law Scholars filed. |
Apr 05 2022 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 25, 2022 to May 24, 2022, submitted to The Clerk. |
Apr 07 2022 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including May 24, 2022. |
Today at SCOTUS: The court will issue orders at 9:30 a.m. EDT, followed by opinions starting at 10. You know the drill: We'll be firing up our live blog and breaking it all down. See you there.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/05/announcement-of-orders-and-opinions-for-monday-may-23/
Just in: The next Supreme Court opinion day will be next Monday. The court expects to release one or more opinions in argued cases from the current term.
End of an era: Here is NBC News prez Noah Oppenheim's memo about Pete Williams' plan to retire this summer
The Supreme Court sides with Sen. Ted Cruz in his First Amendment challenge to a federal campaign-finance law that limits how and when candidates can recoup loans that they make to their own campaigns. The vote is 6-3 along ideological lines.
In an immigration case, SCOTUS rules 5-4 that federal courts do NOT have jurisdiction to review certain executive-branch factual findings that determine whether non-citizens are eligible for "adjustment of status." Those findings can dictate whether a person is deported.
SCOTUS agrees to take up two new cases: Jones v. Hendrix (a habeas corpus case) and SEC v. Cochran (a case about the power of district courts to hear challenges to the constitutionality of the SEC's administrative law proceedings). Full order list here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/051622zor_hgcj.pdf