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Fischer v. United States, 603 U.S. ___, was a United States Supreme Court case about the proper use of the felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding, established in the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, against participants in the January 6 United States Capitol attack. The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in June of 2024 that the charge only applied ...
Fischer v United States, 529 U.S. 667 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that the scope of the federal bribery statute 18 U.S.C. § 666(b), which applied to organizations that received "benefits in excess of $10,000 under a Federal program", included funds received through Medicare.
In December 2023, the Supreme Court agreed to hear one of the three cases as Fischer v. United States. [52] [53] In June 2024, it ruled in favor of Fischer that the charge only applied when "the defendant impaired the availability or integrity... of records, documents, objects, or other things used in an official proceeding, or attempted to do so."
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court announced it will hear a case, Fischer v. United States, that presents an important issue for those who laid siege to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 — whether ...
Voting 6-3, the nation's highest court ruled in Fischer v. United States that federal prosecutors had applied an obstruction statute too broadly in the case of a Pennsylvania police officer who ...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Fischer v United States on Tuesday. A decision is expected sometime in or before June. ... Fischer went to the Capitol and pushed his way through the crowd ...
On June 28, 2024, in Fischer v. United States, the Supreme Court limited how the Justice Department could use the obstruction charge statute against the rioters. [19] Joseph Fischer was one of the participants charged with obstruction. As a result, hundreds of participants already charged will be freed or have their charges for this statute ...
In a new filing, the lawyers urged the Supreme Court to slow down the trial proceedings in part because the justices soon will weigh whether a defendant named Joseph Fischer who was involved in ...