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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 August 2022, Nichols' rulings on three such defendants was appealed to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as United States v. Fischer. [44] [45] [46] The hearing occurred on December 12, 2022. [47] [48] On April 8, 2023, the court issued its ruling. While it held that obstruction did not have to pertain to a document ...
Fischer v. United States got its start in March 2022 when a district court judge dismissed federal obstruction charges against three Jan. 6 defendants, including Joseph W. Fischer, a former police ...
The Supreme Court’s Fischer v. United States ruling in the January 6 obstruction case vindicated claims from some of the rioters’ attorneys that prosecutors had overcharged their clients.
The Supreme Court's decision in Fischer vs. United States, which came down among a bevy of blockbuster opinions Friday, was much anticipated for its potential impact on the prosecutions of ...
Case: Fischer v. United States. How the justices ruled and what it means: ... Some background: In 1984, a unanimous 6-0 Supreme Court decision found that in the case of Chevron v.
On August 1, 2022, Reffitt was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison with a $2,000 fine and three years of supervised release. He will have a resentencing hearing as a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Fischer v. United States.