Thompson basically asked the Supreme Court, “when is a lie a lie?” It took his side, but the conviction of the former City ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday sided with former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, finding that a law he’d been convicted under outlaws false statements but not misleading ones, as his ...

"[A] statement that is misleading but true is by definition not a 'false statement,'" Chief Justice Roberts Jr. wrote in a ...

DOJ's track record in this regard is not good. Yet, if you read the opinion, you would have no idea that "Patrick Thompson" was a politician. The case was styled in the cert petition as Patrick D.

The justices unanimously said a law prohibiting “any false statement or report” did not cover misleading assertions that fell ...

Patrick Daley Thompson's 2022 criminal case centers around what he told regulators about three bank loans he took out from a ...

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a Chicago political scion in his criminal appeal Friday, agreeing an anti-corruption ...

The Supreme Court on Friday threw out a ruling by a federal appeals court in Chicago that upheld the conviction of Patrick Daley Thompson, who served four months in a federal prison for making false ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, overturning two counts of lying to regulators.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled unanimously in favor of former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, concluding that a federal criminal statute that prohibits making false statements regarding ...