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"Justices Limit Use of 'Honest Services' Law Against Fraud"

"Justices Limit Use of 'Honest Services' Law Against Fraud": Adam Liptak has this article today in The New York Times. The newspaper also contains an article headlined "Conviction in Bruno Case Is in Doubt After Ruling," an editorial entitled "Balance of Prosecutorial Power," and an essay by columnist Floyd Norris entitled "Rolling Back a Law Born of Enron."

In today's edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that "Supreme Court decision casts doubt on former Enron CEO's conviction." The newspaper also contains an article headlined "Defense attorneys laud Supreme Court ruling that casts doubt on CEO convictions."

The Los Angeles Times contained an article headlined "Supreme Court ruling to narrow anti-corruption law could aid former Enron chief Jeffrey Skilling" and an editorial entitled "A flawed fraud law: The Supreme Court narrows the law's broad language, which could snare almost any deceitful businessman or politician."

The Wall Street Journal contains articles headlined "Justices Limit Fraud Law; Court Rules Prosecutors Overreached in Convictions of Enron's Skilling, Others" and "For Skilling, an Elusive Victory."

Joan Biskupic of USA Today reports that "Justices limit scope of anti-fraud law, 9-0; Ruling scraps parts of convictions for some famous former executives."

The Houston Chronicle contains articles headlined "Skilling ruling leaves much undecided; Supreme Court limits scope of federal law, but a long battle looms from prison"; "Former Enron workers' emotions still raw; But some worry about implications of high court view that one law didn't apply to Skilling"; and "Sotomayor dissent on trial venue surprises experts; The justice cites media and the effect Enron had on Houston."

The Chicago Tribune contains articles headlined "Conrad Black could benefit from 'honest services' ruling; Supreme Court finds jury was given improper instructions on what constituted fraud in case of former Chicago Sun-Times executive" and "Illinois corruption defendants see opening as court narrows 'honest services' law; Attorneys for Blagojevich and Ryan examining if Supreme Court ruling will have repercussions as prosecutors must now rely on more traditional statutes to prove fraud."

The Chicago Sun-Times contains articles headlined "Prosecutors lose powerful weapon; 'Honest services' fraud cases are too vague, justices rule in Enron case" and "Supreme Court decision not likely to help Black, Skilling get out of prison soon."

The Anchorage Daily News reports that "Court ruling on anti-corruption law impacts Alaska cases; Less precise conflict-of-interest statute thrown out by justices."

The Toronto Globe and Mail reports that "Black calls ruling 'immensely gratifying.'"

Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal reports that "In 4 Key Rulings, Supreme Court Limits Fraud Statutes' Reach; On the civil side, justices ruled that securities fraud class actions involving foreign investors or firms cannot be filed in U.S. courts unless shares were bought or sold within the U.S."

At "SCOTUSblog," Lyle Denniston has a post titled "'Honest services' law pared down."

And from NPR. yesterday evening's broadcast of "All Things Considered" contained an audio segment entitled "High Court Sides With Ex-Enron CEO Skilling" featuring Nina Totenberg. And on today's broadcast of "Morning Edition," Totenberg had an audio segment entitled "High Court Reins In Use Of Fraud Law."

Full post as published by How Appealing on June 25, 2010 (boomark / email).