United States v. Garcia-Ochoa

How courts have described this case

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• “The test of materiality is whether the false statement has a natural tendency to influence agency action or is capable of influencing agency action.”
• “[Fjalse reporting of information deemed important by the legislature and executive cannot lightly be deemed unimportant by the courts.”
• “Materiality, as an element of a criminal offense, is a question of fact (or at the very least, a mixed question of law and fact) to be resolved by the fact finder....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).