United States v. Doreen Woods, AKA Joann Barnes, United States of America v. Jason Garcia, AKA Michael Bennett

How courts have described this case

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• holding it was proper for the district court to notice published agency regulations
• rejecting argument that the government “needed to prove a specific false statement” for mail fraud because “a defendant’s activities can be a scheme or artifice to defraud whether or not any specific misrepresentations are involved”
• stating a scheme’s “fraudulent” nature is measured by a “non-technical” standard
• “Far from abusing its discretion, the district court complied with federal law by judicially noticing the rule.” (citing 44 U.S.C. § 1507)
• “Far from 27 abusing its discretion, the district court complied with federal law by judicially noticing the 28 rule.”
• “Under the mail fraud statute the government is not required to prove any particular false statement was made.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).