United States v. James Leon Stewart, Robert Preston Fails

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a scheme “to deprive [ ] manufacturers of money which they should have received on sales of pharmaceuticals” by tricking the manufacturers into selling drugs at reduced prices was a “scheme relating to property rights”
• noting that mail fraud, unlike common-law fraud, “does not require the successful completion of the scheme to defraud”
• “Under the mail fraud statute, the government does not have to prove actual reliance upon the defendant’s misrepresentations”
• “an offense under [the mail fraud statute], unlike common law fraud, does not require the successful completion of the scheme to defraud”
• “Under the mail fraud statute, the government does not have to prove actual reliance upon the defendant’s misrepresentations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).