Mathis v. United States

Holding that a court employing the categorical approach "looks to a limited class of documents"

Taylor v. United States

Holding that the term "burglary" as used in the Armed Career Criminal Act was to be given its "generic, contemporary meaning" to avoid a scenario in which "a person ... would, or would not, receive a sentence enhancement based on exactly the same conduct, depending on whether the State of his prior conviction happened to call that conduct ‘burglary’ "

United States v. Dunnigan

Holding that § 3C1.1 enhancement is appropriate only where the defendant acts "with the willful intent to provide false testimony, rather than as a result of confusion, mistake or faulty memory."

Perrin v. United States

Holding that commercial bribery falls under the definition of bribery under the Travel Act, which was passed nine years before RICO was enacted

Miles v. Apex Marine Corp.

Holding that when Congress incorporated the Federal Employers’ Liability Act ("FELA") into the Jones Act without alteration, it also incorporated the prior judicial interpretation of FELA in the Act, as that interpretation was "well established," and "Congress is aware of existing law when it passes legislation"

United States v. Wells

Holding that the absence of a materiality requirement in the recodified crime of knowingly making a false statement to a federally insured bank, see 18 U.S.C. § 1014, required the Court to interpret that statute as having no such element, notwithstanding the presence of that element in some of the prior false representation crimes that had been consolidated under § 1014 and a Revisor's Note explaining that the change in text was "without change of substance"

Torres v. Lynch

Holding an aggravated felony conviction renders an alien ineligible for cancellation of removal

Bronston v. United States

Holding that the perjury statute does not apply to literally true but unresponsive answers

Chein v. Shumsky

Analyzing materiality and falsity of statements made in three separate perjury counts to hold that no rational juror could have found the defendant guilty of each element of perjury beyond a reasonable doubt

United States v. Rodebaugh

Finding that "the Government ... clearly waived ... any objection to [appellant's] failure to preserve his lack-of-specific-findings argument" where it "failed to argue [appellant] had not objected below and had not argued plain error in his opening brief"

Section 1101 - Definitions

Finding notice and comment rulemaking is required for the agency's interim rule recognizing fear of coercive family practices as basis for refugee status

Section 1182 - Inadmissible aliens

Holding deportable aliens who have been convicted of "crimes involving moral turpitude"

Section 1229b - Cancellation of removal; adjustment of status

Granting the Attorney General discretion to cancel the removal of an alien who has “been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty by a ... parent who is ... a United States citizen”

Section 1621 - Perjury generally

Criminalizing perjury

Section 1254 - Repealed

Describing suspension-of-deportation eligibility

Section 118 - Perjury

Defining "perjury" as when an individual, under oath, "willfully states as true any material matter which he or she knows to be false"

Section 2921.11 - Perjury

Section 210.15 - Perjury in the first degree

Requiring intent

Section 837.02 - Perjury in official proceedings

Defining felony perjury

Section 2C:28-1 - Perjury

Defining perjury similarly to Florida law