Mail: Federal Mail Fraud Act - Adoption Of The Act, Challenges To The Constitutionality Of The Act, Bibliography, Cases

Mail: Federal Mail Fraud Act - Adoption Of The Act

The first mail fraud legislation was adopted in 1872. As part of a general revision of the postal laws, Congress made it a crime to mail material intended to effectuate "any scheme or artifice to defraud" (An act to revise, consolidate and amend the statutes relating to the Post Office Department, ch. 335, § 301, 17 Stat. 283, 323 (1872) (repealed)). This provision evoked almost…

Mail: Federal Mail Fraud Act - Challenges To The Constitutionality Of The Act

The Supreme Court confirmed Congress's power to prohibit the mailing of material based upon its content. Badders v. United States, 240 U.S. 391, 393 (1916), held that Congress has the authority to regulate the act of mailing a letter, and to prohibit any act of mailing "done in furtherance of a scheme that [Congress] regards as contrary to public policy, whether it can forbid the sch…

Mail: Federal Mail Fraud Act - Bibliography

——. "Modern Mail Fraud: The Restoration of the Public/Private Distinction." American Criminal Law Review 35 (1998): 427–465. ——. "Mail Fraud Meets Criminal Theory." University of Cincinnati Law Review 67 (1998): 1–51. …

Mail: Federal Mail Fraud Act - Cases