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- United States v. Assange: Court Docket and Judgment Entry (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands; CourtListener reproduction
Court docket for United States v. Assange, June 2024: records the judgment on one count, 62 months with credit for time served, and a $100 special…
- United States v. Assange: Plea Agreement (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
United States and Julian Paul Assange
Plea agreement filed in federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands, June 2024: Assange agreed to plead guilty to one charge of conspiring to obtain and…
- United States v. AT&T (1982)
Court Filing · 1982
U.S. District Court, D.D.C. (Greene, J.)
Federal court in Washington, D.C., August 1982: Judge Harold Greene approved the consent decree breaking up AT&T and spinning off its 22 local Bell telephone companies.
- United States v. Bundy, No. 18-10287
Court Filing · 2020
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Nevada Bundy case ended through Brady-based dismissal for prosecutorial misconduct, not jury nullification. Some Nevada co-defendants were convicted, and Malheur outcomes likewise included pleas and…
- United States v. Ciavarella, No. 11-3277 (3d Cir. 2013)
Court Filing · 2013
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
The Third Circuit's 2013 opinion in the Kids for Cash case. Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan received more than $2.8 million from Robert Mericle and…
- United States v. Ciavarella, No. 18-1498 (3d Cir. 2019)
Court Filing · 2019
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
The Third Circuit's 2019 decision affirming a lower court that threw out Ciavarella's racketeering and money laundering conspiracy convictions but left his mail fraud convictions in…
- United States v. IBM (1982)
Court Filing · 1982
U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y. (Edelstein, J.)
Federal court in New York, 1982: records the end of the government's 13-year monopoly case against IBM. The Justice Department and IBM filed to dismiss it…
- United States v. Manning: Army Court of Criminal Appeals (2018)
Court Filing · 2018
U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals; FindLaw reproduction
U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals, May 2018: records Chelsea Manning's 35-year sentence and that the President commuted it in January 2017 to time served plus…
- United States v. Maxwell: Opinion and Order on Transparency Act Compliance (January 21, 2026)
Court Filing · 2026
Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y.
Judge Engelmayer, January 2026: Representatives Massie and Khanna and victims raised "legitimate concerns" about whether the Justice Department is following the Transparency Act. The court denied…
- United States v. Maxwell: Opinion and Order, Document 820 (December 9, 2025)
Court Filing · 2025
Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y.
A December 2025 federal court opinion laying out Maxwell's case history: conviction, 20-year sentence, appeals court affirmed (September 2024), Supreme Court declined to hear it (October…
- United States v. Michael J. Madigan, No. 25-2249
Court Filing · 2026
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
The Seventh Circuit affirmed Madigan’s convictions. A certiorari petition was filed July 27, 2026 in Supreme Court No. 26-137; no clemency or commutation was located.
- United States v. Microsoft (D.C. Cir. 2001)
Court Filing · 2001
U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
Federal appeals court, June 2001, full court: upheld the finding that Microsoft illegally maintained its monopoly, but threw out the order breaking up the company, removed…
- United States v. Miller’s Organic Farm, No. 5:19-cv-01435 (E.D. Pa.), Docket
Court Filing · 2023
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
The docket identifies the 2019 injunction (entry 44), April 2020 consent decree (67), June 16, 2021 contempt finding, July 22 sanctions order (105), and August 4,…
- United States v. Missouri (8th Cir. 2024)
Court Filing · 2024
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Colloton, J.)
Federal appeals court, August 2024: struck down Missouri's Second Amendment Preservation Act. A state may refuse to help enforce federal law, but it cannot declare federal…
- United States v. Moalin: Ninth Circuit Opinion (2020)
Court Filing · 2020
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, September 2020: held that the NSA's phone metadata collection went beyond what Congress authorized and violated FISA. Whether…
- United States v. Pramaggiore and McClain, Nos. 25-2349 and 25-2350
Court Filing · 2026
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In June 2026 the Seventh Circuit vacated the conspiracy and books-and-records convictions of former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and lobbyist Michael McClain after the Snyder ruling,…
- United States v. Robertson, 875 F.3d 1281 (9th Cir. 2017)
Court Filing · 2017
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The court affirmed convictions after a second trial and identified National Forest and privately owned mining-claim land, wetlands, and a tributary to Cataract Creek. This contradicts…
- United States v. Robertson, 980 F.3d 1326 (9th Cir. 2020)
Court Filing · 2020
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
After Robertson died with certiorari pending, the Supreme Court vacated and remanded and the indictment was dismissed through abatement. The CJA reimbursement survived; this was not…
- United States v. Snowden: Criminal Complaint (2013)
Court Filing · 2013
Federal Bureau of Investigation; U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
FBI criminal complaint filed under seal in Virginia, June 2013: charges Edward Snowden with theft of government property and two crimes of sharing classified intelligence information.…
- United States v. Snyder, No. 21-2986
Court Filing · 2023
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
The Seventh Circuit affirmed in 2023, but the Supreme Court reversed the bribery holding in 2024. This opinion is historical, not the final procedural outcome.
- United States v. Trump and Nauta, Superseding Indictment
Court Filing · 2023
Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith
The original indictment was filed June 8, 2023 and unsealed June 9; the superseding indictment followed in July. Indictment allegations are not proof of guilt.
- United States v. Trump et al., Order Granting Motion to Dismiss Superseding Indictment
Court Filing · 2024
Judge Aileen M. Cannon, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
The dismissal rested on the special counsel’s appointment, not a merits exoneration. The government dismissed its Trump appeal in November 2024 and the remaining appeal in…
- Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (UNESCO, 1997)
Government Record · 1997
UNESCO General Conference
UNESCO's 1997 declaration calls the human genome the heritage of humanity in a symbolic sense and says the genome in its natural state shall not give…
- Update on Review of Asset Management Products and Activities
Government Record · 2016
Financial Stability Oversight Council
Documents FSOC’s review of asset-management products and activities, including liquidity transformation in pooled vehicles. It is further evidence of regulatory examination, not a designation of BlackRock,…