Supreme Court rules employer recommendation not property

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday in Sekhar v. United States [SCOTUSblog backgrounder; JURIST report] that attempting to compel a person to recommend that his employer approve an investment does not constitute "the obtaining of property from another" under the Hobbs Act [18 USC § 1951(a)]. In this case, Sekhar allegedly threatened the attorney for New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to gain a government contract through DiNapoli's attorney's recommendation of Sekhar. The court's ruling effectively...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/06/supreme-court-rules-employer-recommendation-not-property.php

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