Interstate or foreign transmission

AND · 18usc1343:interstate

The charged transmission must satisfy the jurisdictional requirement. Identify evidence of interstate routing, not simply the presence of a computer or telephone.

Exact element source

in interstate or foreign commerce

Source: docroot/ir/usc/title18.jsonl#title18_sec1343; Unicode character offsets [324:357] (end exclusive); SHA-256 944569d18f6d3624ae87dde151ee823f6cf078faa69c6d3e59fb832bc1aaa933.

All variants

Recorded DB variant labels, including zero-count variants
Variant	Description	Merits instance blocks	Distinct cases	Example cases (up to 3 per group)
Unspecified variant	No variant assigned in the database.	0 Satisfied 0; not satisfied 0; excluded context 6	0	No counted merits examples Excluded context examples: /f-supp-2d/562/0719-01 — United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia · 2008 — applied/merits; /f-supp/957/0039-01 — United States District Court for the Southern District of New York · 1997 — applied/merits; /f2d/829/0286-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987 — background/merits

How courts decided this element

Annotation blocks, including explicitly excluded context
Case	Element	Holding and scope	Variant	Exact source quotations
/f-supp-2d/562/0719-01 — United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia · 2008	Interstate or foreign transmission	not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / merits	Unspecified variant	No source quotation recorded for this block.
/f-supp/957/0039-01 — United States District Court for the Southern District of New York · 1997	Interstate or foreign transmission	not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / merits	Unspecified variant	No source quotation recorded for this block.
/f2d/829/0286-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987	Interstate or foreign transmission	not_reached Excluded from merits counts background / merits The court infers only that interstate communication was probable (one defendant incorporated in another state); left to discovery on remand.	Unspecified variant	No source quotation recorded for this block.
/f3d/333/1264-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2003	Interstate or foreign transmission	not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / merits Michigan-to-Florida bank transfers; the interstate character of the charged wires was not contested (the fact sits in the `wire` block).	Unspecified variant	No source quotation recorded for this block.
/f3d/59/0517-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1995	Interstate or foreign transmission	not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / merits That the agents' calls to the Missouri computer actually crossed state lines is recited as the only interstate communication in the record and was not disputed; what failed was the defendant's foreseeability of that interstate leg, recorded under `wire`.	Unspecified variant	No source quotation recorded for this block.
/f3d/923/0390-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2019	Interstate or foreign transmission	not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / merits Only glimpse: a footnote quoting the case agent that the Count 5 email between two people in Texas was routed through company servers in California; not an issue on appeal.	Unspecified variant	No source quotation recorded for this block.

Court interpretations

interpretation

The charged wire transmissions traveled across state lines-from Joliet Motors in Illinois and routed through Pennsylvania or Ohio, and they advanced the scheme to defraud the lenders because they were payments for a vehicle that had been sold to the detriment of the lender's interests.

/f3d/915/0493-01

The charged wire transmissions traveled across state lines-from Joliet Motors in Illinois and routed through Pennsylvania or Ohio, and they advanced the scheme to defraud the lenders because they were payments for a vehicle that had been sold to the detriment of the lender's interests.

Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f3d_915.jsonl#/f3d/915/0493-01; Unicode character offsets [3650:3936] (end exclusive); SHA-256 a2d8cc2afe88a91fa856e6f1d0d7fefd9cfc2de1338b80b4342b6d9644d0e078.

The charged transmission must satisfy the jurisdictional requirement. Identify evidence of interstate routing, not simply the presence of a computer or telephone.