Dubin v. United States

Dubin v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 27, 2023 Decided June 8, 2023
Full case name	David Fox Dubin v. United States
Docket no.	22-10
Citations	599 U.S. 110 (more)
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	United States v. Dubin, 27 F.4th 1021 (5th Cir. 2021)(en banc), United States v. Dubin 982 F.3d 318 (5th Cir. 2020)., United States v. Dubin (No. 17-cr-00227-XR-2) (W.D. Tex. 2018)
Questions presented
Whether a person commits aggravated identity theft any time he mentions or otherwise recites someone else's name while committing a predicate offense.
Holding
Under §1028A(a)(1), a defendant “uses” another person’s means of identification “in relation to” a predicate offense when the use is at the crux of what makes the conduct criminal.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan Neil Gorsuch · Brett Kavanaugh Amy Coney Barrett · Ketanji Brown Jackson
Case opinions
Majority	Sotomayor, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Kagan, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Jackson
Concurrence	Gorsuch (in judgment)
Laws applied
18 U.S.C. § 1028A

Dubin v. United States, 599 U.S. 110 (2023), was a United States Supreme Court case pertaining to a provision of Title 18 of the United States Code. In the case, the Court settled a circuit split regarding the reach of the federal aggravated identity theft statute.^{[1][failed verification]}