Beginning on Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments this term in three cases challenging the "honest services" fraud statute -- an almost unprecedented multipart investigation into a single law in a single term. The law has been used to penalize "a staggeringly broad swath of behavior," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote last February. Justices say they don't consciously seek out issues to resolve, but it would be hard to chalk up the confluence to coincidence.
December 07, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who once said that writing dissents made life worth living, wrote a scorcher last February.
He was mad at his colleagues for denying review in a case called Sorich v. U.S. that would have forced the Court to make sense of a 21-year-old federal statute that makes it a crime to “deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.”
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