U.S. v. Yates

1 Citing case

  1. Yates v. United States

    574 U.S. 528 (2015)   Cited 538 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, in light of a statute's illustrative list, "tangible object" covers "only objects one can use to record or preserve information, not all objects in the physical world"

    While recognizing that §1519 was passed as part of legislation targeting corporate fraud, the Court of Appeals had instructed that “the broad language of §1519 is not limited to corporate fraud cases, and ‘Congress is free to pass laws with language covering areas well beyond the particular crisis du jour that initially prompted legislative action.’” No. 2:10-cr-66-FtM-29SPC, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 87413 (MD Fla., Aug. 8, 2011), App. 116 (quoting United States v. Hunt, 526 F. 3d 739, 744 (CA11 2008)). Accordingly, the trial court read “tangible object” as a term “independent” of “record” or “document.”