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A Seat at the Sitting - December 2022


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Each month, a panel of constitutional experts convenes to discuss the Court’s upcoming docket sitting by sitting. The cases that will be covered are included below.

Percoco v. United States (Nov. 28) - Criminal Law; whether a private citizen who can influence government decision-making owes a duty to the public, so that he can be convicted of bribery.
Ciminelli v. United States (Nov. 28) - Criminal Law; whether a defendant can be convicted under the federal wire-fraud statute based on a “right to control” theory.
United States v. Texas (Nov. 29) - Immigration; a challenge to the Biden administration’s policy of prioritizing certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and detention.
Wilkins v. United States (Nov. 30) - Property Rights, whether the 12-year statute of limitations to bring a lawsuit under the Quiet Title Act is jurisdictional and cannot be waived.
303 Creative v. Elenis (Dec. 5) - Civil Rights; whether applying Colorado’s public-accommodation law to require an artist to speak or stay silent violates the Constitution’s free speech clause.
MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC (Dec. 5) - Bankruptcy; whether a provision of federal bankruptcy law limits the power of the courts of appeals over an order approving the sale of a debtor’s assets.
Bartenwerfer v. Buckley (Dec. 6) - Bankruptcy; whether a bankruptcy debtor can be held liable for another person’s fraud.
Moore v. Harper (Dec. 7) - Election Law; whether a state supreme court’s order invalidating a state’s congressional map and ordering the state to draw a new one violates the Constitution’s elections clause.

Featuring:

Andrew Grossman, Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP; Adjunct Scholar, The Cato Institute
Casey Mattox, Vice President for Legal and Judicial Strategy, Americans for Prosperity Network
Prof. Ilya Somin, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Moderator: Samuel D. Adkisson, Associate Attorney, Gibson Dunn

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