The Supreme Court yet again unanimously overturned bribery convictions based on prosecutorial overreach via the honest services wire fraud statute. The steady stream of reversals fundamentally challenges the DOJ’s approach in...more
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held, on December 27, 2022, in United States v. Blaszczak (“Blaszczak II”) that an agency’s confidential, pre-decisional information did not count as...more
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The Supreme Court in Salman v. United States yesterday issued its most significant ruling in an insider trading case in more than two decades. In a unanimous, brief opinion written by Justice Alito, the Supreme Court affirmed...more
The Supreme Court yesterday granted certiorari in the case United States v. Salman, an insider trading case decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. This is significant because in Salman the critical issue is whether...more