Hobbs Act

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Hobbs Act of 1946

Enacted by	the 79th United States Congress
Codification
Acts amended	Anti-Racketeering Act of 1934
United States Supreme Court cases
United States v. Green, 350 U.S. 415 (1956) Stirone v. United States, 361 U.S. 212 (1960) Callanan v. United States, 364 U.S. 587 (1961) United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973) United States v. Culbert, 435 U.S. 371 (1978) United States v. Gillock, 445 U.S. 360 (1980) McCormick v. United States, 500 U.S. 257 (1991) Evans v. United States, 504 U.S. 255 (1992) Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, 537 U.S. 393 (2003) Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, 547 U.S. 9 (2006) Wilkie v. Robbins, 551 U.S. 537 (2007) Sekhar v. United States, 570 U.S. 729 (2013) Ocasio v. United States, No. 14-361, 578 U.S. ___ (2016) Taylor v. United States, No. 14-6166, 579 U.S. ___ (2016) McDonnell v. United States, No. 15-474, 579 U.S. ___ (2016) United States v. Davis, No. 18-431, 588 U.S. ___ (2019) United States v. Taylor, No. 20-1459, 596 U.S. ___ (2022)

The Hobbs Act, named after United States Representative Sam Hobbs (D-AL) and codified as 18 U.S.C. § 1951, is a United States federal law enacted in 1946 that prohibits actual or attempted robbery or extortion that affect interstate or foreign commerce. It also forbids conspiracy to do so.^[1]

The statute, despite being conceived and enacted as an anti-racketeering measure in disputes between labor and management, is frequently used in connection with cases involving public corruption, commercial disputes, and corruption directed at members of labor unions.^{[1][clarification needed]}