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Peter Bolos v. United States
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 22-5486, 22-5605 · judgment June 12, 2024
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a petition filed soon after the judgment below, counsel who has filed here before, and a Sixth Circuit decision below.
Question presented
Does a scheme to induce a transaction through deception, but which contemplates no harm to any property interest, constitute a scheme to defraud under the federal mail fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1341?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Scott Burnett Smith
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Order
Order list, June 2, 2025 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Jun 02 2025Petition DENIED.
- May 27 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/29/2025.
- Oct 30 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/15/2024.
- Oct 15 2024Memorandum of respondent United States filed.
- Sep 10 2024Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 15, 2024)