United States v. Skilling
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United States v. Skilling is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case involving former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling that significantly narrowed the scope of the federal “honest services” fraud statute.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| United States v. Skilling canonical | 3 |
| Skilling v. United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5340234 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Skilling Context triple: [Enron, legalCase, United States v. Skilling]
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United States v. Eichman
United States v. Eichman is a 1990 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down a federal law banning flag desecration as unconstitutional under the First Amendment’s protection of free speech.
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United States v. Classic
United States v. Classic is a 1941 U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded federal authority over primary elections by holding that Congress can regulate primaries when they are an integral part of the electoral process for federal offices.
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United States v. Comstock
United States v. Comstock is a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s authority to civilly commit mentally ill, sexually dangerous federal prisoners beyond their release date under the Constitution’s Necessary and Proper Clause.
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D.
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
United States v. Microsoft Corp. was a major U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the late 1990s and early 2000s that challenged Microsoft's dominance in the personal computer operating systems market, particularly its practices related to bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
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E.
Nixon v. Fitzgerald
Nixon v. Fitzgerald is a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case that established absolute immunity from civil damages liability for a President’s official acts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Skilling Target entity description: United States v. Skilling is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case involving former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling that significantly narrowed the scope of the federal “honest services” fraud statute.
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A.
United States v. Eichman
United States v. Eichman is a 1990 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down a federal law banning flag desecration as unconstitutional under the First Amendment’s protection of free speech.
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B.
United States v. Classic
United States v. Classic is a 1941 U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded federal authority over primary elections by holding that Congress can regulate primaries when they are an integral part of the electoral process for federal offices.
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C.
United States v. Comstock
United States v. Comstock is a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Congress’s authority to civilly commit mentally ill, sexually dangerous federal prisoners beyond their release date under the Constitution’s Necessary and Proper Clause.
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D.
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
United States v. Microsoft Corp. was a major U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the late 1990s and early 2000s that challenged Microsoft's dominance in the personal computer operating systems market, particularly its practices related to bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
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E.
Nixon v. Fitzgerald
Nixon v. Fitzgerald is a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case that established absolute immunity from civil damages liability for a President’s official acts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
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criminal law case ⓘ federal case ⓘ white-collar crime case ⓘ |
| arguedDate | 2010-03-01 ⓘ |
| background | arose from the prosecution of former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling after the collapse of Enron Corporation ⓘ |
| citation | 561 U.S. 358 ⓘ |
| concurrenceInPartBy |
Anthony M. Kennedy
ⓘ
Antonin Scalia ⓘ Clarence Thomas ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| court | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| decisionDate | 2010-06-24 ⓘ |
| dissentBy |
Anthony M. Kennedy
ⓘ
Antonin Scalia ⓘ Clarence Thomas ⓘ |
| docketNumber | 08-1394 ⓘ |
| fullName | United States v. Skilling ⓘ |
| holding |
18 U.S.C. § 1346 is properly confined to schemes involving bribes or kickbacks
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Skilling’s conspiracy conviction was flawed to the extent it rested on honest services fraud theory beyond bribes and kickbacks ⓘ the honest services fraud statute does not cover mere undisclosed self-dealing without bribes or kickbacks ⓘ the honest services statute, as narrowed to bribery and kickback schemes, is not unconstitutionally vague ⓘ |
| impact |
restricted federal prosecutors’ use of honest services fraud in corruption and corporate fraud cases
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significantly narrowed the scope of the federal honest services fraud statute ⓘ |
| joinedWith |
Black v. United States
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Weyhrauch v. United States ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | federal ⓘ |
| legalArea |
federal criminal law
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fraud law ⓘ statutory interpretation ⓘ white-collar crime ⓘ |
| legalIssue |
18 U.S.C. § 1346
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honest services mail fraud ⓘ honest services wire fraud ⓘ scope of the federal honest services fraud statute ⓘ |
| majorityJustices |
Anthony M. Kennedy
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Antonin Scalia ⓘ Clarence Thomas ⓘ John G. Roberts Jr. ⓘ Ruth Bader Ginsburg ⓘ Samuel A. Alito Jr. ⓘ Stephen G. Breyer ⓘ |
| majorityOpinionBy | Ruth Bader Ginsburg ⓘ |
| petitioner |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| precedentStatus | binding precedent in the United States federal courts ⓘ |
| relatedCase |
Black v. United States
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Weyhrauch v. United States ⓘ |
| relatedOrganization |
Enron Corporation
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linked to:
Enron
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| relatedPerson | Jeffrey Skilling ⓘ |
| respondent |
Jeffrey K. Skilling
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linked to:
Jeffrey Skilling
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| resultForRespondent | convictions were partly vacated and case remanded ⓘ |
| shortName | Skilling ⓘ |
| statuteInterpreted |
18 U.S.C. § 1346
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federal mail fraud statute ⓘ federal wire fraud statute ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
corporate fraud
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public corruption theories of prosecution ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 2010 ⓘ |
| topic | limitation of honest services fraud to bribery and kickback schemes ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: United States v. Skilling Description of subject: United States v. Skilling is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case involving former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling that significantly narrowed the scope of the federal “honest services” fraud statute.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: United States v. Skilling