High Court Review Of ‘Obtaining Property’ Meaning Sought In Securities Suit

(December 12, 2019, 5:57 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Supreme Court review of a federal circuit court’s finding of no reversible error in a federal district court’s evidentiary rulings and jury instructions in the criminal trial of a medical device company’s former CEO for his alleged role in a fraudulent channel-stuffing scheme is warranted to cure a split among the circuits as to the meaning of “obtaining property” in the fraud statutes, the former CEO argues in a Nov. 21 petition for writ of certiorari filed in the U.S. Supreme Court (Michael Baker v. United States of America, No. 19-667, U.S. Sup., 2019 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 6764)....

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