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Foreword: Cities On The Cutting Edge, David Jung
Foreword: Cities On The Cutting Edge, David Jung
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Modern Mail Fraud: The Restoration Of The Public/Private Distinction, John C. Coffee Jr.
Modern Mail Fraud: The Restoration Of The Public/Private Distinction, John C. Coffee Jr.
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Over their long history, the mail and wire fraud statutes have gone through repeated periods of rapid expansion and contraction. The 1970s saw the flowering of the "intangible rights doctrine," an exotic flower that quickly overgrew the legal landscape in the manner of the kudzu vine until by the mid- 1980s few ethical or fiduciary breaches seemed beyond its potential reach. That doctrine was radically pruned by the Supreme Court in 1987 in the McNally decision, which held that the federal mail and wire fraud statutes reached only those schemes that intentionally sought to deprive their victims of money or …