Supreme Court hears arguments on blackmail, river dispute

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In Sekhar v. United States [transcript, PDF; JURIST report] the court heard arguments on whether an attorney's "recommendation" is intangible property that can be gained through bribery, and thus under the jurisdiction of federal extortion law [18 USC § 875(d)], including the Hobbs Act [18 USC § 1951 (a)]. Paul Clement, the attorney representing Giridhar Sekhar, argued that extortion and blackmail can only apply to tangible...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/04/supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-blackmail-case-and-red-river-case.php

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