Cleveland v. United States (2000)

Cleveland v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 10, 2000 Decided November 7, 2000
Full case name	Carl W. Cleveland, Petitioner v. United States
Citations	531 U.S. 12 (more) 121 S. Ct. 365, 148 L. Ed. 2d 221, 2000 U.S. LEXIS 7436
Case history
Prior	motion to dismiss denied, 951 F.Supp. 1249 (E.D. La. 1997); defendants convicted and forfeiture ordered, unreported (E.D. La. 1997); affirmed sub. nom. U.S. v. Bankston, 182 F.3d 296 (5th Cir. 1999); certiorari granted, 529 U.S. 1017 (2000)
Holding
"Property" for the purposes of federal law does not include state video poker licenses. Fifth circuit reversed and remanded.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Ginsburg, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
18 U.S.C. § 1341

Cleveland v. United States, 531 U.S. 12 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court case that concerned the definition of "property" under the federal mail fraud statute. In a unanimous decision, the Court held that "property" for the purposes of federal law did not include state video poker licences because such transactions were not a vested right or expectation.