The first was Hertz Corp. v. Friend, an important decision that settled disagreements over how to define a company’s principal place of business for litigation purposes. Second was Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder, a case Srinivasan handled pro bono, establishing that certain minor offenses will not increase chances of deportation for immigrants.
But the case that has won the most attention was Skilling v. United States, decided June 24, which narrowed the “honest services” criminal fraud statute to cover bribes and kickbacks. Srinivasan won the assignment to argued for former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling in part because Skilling’s lawyer, O’Melveny colleague Daniel Petrocelli, was tied up with a trial. In February Petrocelli told us he and Walter Dellinger, the firm’s appellate chief, decided “Sri is the best guy to do it.”
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