NACDL News: Supreme Court Will Examine Use of Post-Enron Law in Prosecution of Fisherman

A case highlighting the dangerous consequences stemming from the unconstitutional executive expansion of the federal law will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. On April 28, 2014, the Court granted the petition for writ of certiorari in Yates v. United States, a case in which the government used a post-Enron, anti-shredding statute to prosecute a fisherman for the disappearance of three fish from his shipping vessel.