United States v. Jiau

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that we “pay special deference” to a district court’s factual determinations “going to witness credibility”
• explaining that the government cannot “prove the receipt of a personal benefit by the mere fact of a friendship”
• explaining that the government cannot “prove the receipt of a personal benefit by the mere fact of a friendship”
• listing elements including “(2) [the insider-tippers] breached by disclosing [the information] to their tippee” and “(5) the insider-tippers benefited in some way from their disclosure”
• discussing 10 “an iPhone, live lobsters, a gift card, and a jar of honey”
• confining the crime-tort exception to “instances where the recording party intends to use the recording to harm or injure a recorded party, such as to blackmail, threaten, or publicly embarrass the recorded party”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).