Opinion
22-cr-431 (LJL)
11-29-2022
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, v. MOISES DISLA RAMOS, Defendant.
ORDER
LEWIS J. LIMAN, United States District Judge
The Court is scheduled to entertain oral argument on the motion to dismiss Count Three of the Indictment on Monday, December 5, 2022. The Government is directed to be prepared to address the Department of Justice's position as to whether a perpetrator can “successfully commit Hobbs Act robbery by putting a victim in fear of economic injury to an intangible asset without the use of physical force,” United States v. Hill, 890 F.3d 51, 57 n.9 (2d Cir. 2018), and, if not, what work the “fear of injury” language in 18 U.S.C. § 1951(b)(1) does that is not already accomplished by the “by means of actual or threatened force, or violence” language.
SO ORDERED.