BLACK v. U.S.

No. 08-876.

130 S.Ct. 2963 (2010)

561 U.S. 465

Conrad M. BLACK, John A. Boultbee, and Mark S. Kipnis, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 24, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miguel A. Estrada (argued), Washington, D.C., for petitioners.

Michael R. Dreeben, Washington, D.C., for respondent.

Richard A. Greenberg, Gustave H. Newman, Steven Y. Yurowitz, Newman & Greenberg, New York, NY, for Petitioner Boultbee in 2009 WL 3155001, 2009 WL 3615005, 2009 WL 2372920.

Ronald S. Safer, Patricia Brown Holmes, Neil Lloyd, Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, IL, Michael E. Swartz, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, New York, NY, for Petitioner Kipnis in 2009 WL 3155001, 2009 WL 3615005, 2009 WL 2372920.

Miguel A. Estrada, Counsel of Record, David Debold, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C., Ashley E. Johnson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Dallas, TX, for Petitioner Black in 2009 WL 3155001, 2009 WL 3615005, 2009 WL 2372920.

Miguel A. Estrada, Counsel of Record, David Debold, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner Black in 2009 WL 4951318, 2009 WL 48714105.

Elena Kagan, Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General, Michael R. Dreeben, Deputy Solicitor General, Matthew D. Roberts, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Joel M. Gershowitz, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the U.S.


Justice GINSBURG delivered the opinion of the Court.

In Skilling v. United States, decided today, ante, p. 2896, we vacated a conviction because the indictment rested, in part, on an improper construction of the "honest services" component of the federal ban on mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1346. A similar infirmity is present in this case. Here, too, the Government and trial court advanced an interpretation of § 1346 rejected by the...

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