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No. 25-1397October Term 2025Before Arguments

Docket 25-1397October Term 2025 (2025–2026)

Naicom Corporation, et al., Petitioners v. Dish Network Corporation, et al.

from the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

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What it's about

from the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Question presented

1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 1965(b) or § 1965(d) authorizes nationwide service of process and the exercise of personal jurisdiction over out-of-district defendants in a civil action under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. 2. Whether absolute prosecutorial immunity bars civil damages claims against federal prosecutors for investigative and administrative conduct that is not intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process. 3. Whether the law-enforcement safe harbors in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030(f); the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2707(e); the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 1201(e); and the Defend Trade Secrets Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1833(a)(1), reach a warrantless re-entry into a private digital facility conducted after the authorizing warrant has been fully executed and returned. 4. Whether the courts below misapplied Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal by treating a defendant's asserted lawful-investigation explanation as an "obvious alternative explanation" that defeats plausibility at the pleading stage, and by requiring a civil RICO plaintiff to plead the defendants' motive to conspire. 5. Whether a court of appeals' unexplained, one-sentence summary affirmance dismissing multiple interlocking federal statutory and constitutional claims warrants this Court's review.

Case path

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit / Accepted by the Court

Area

Supreme Court case awaiting argument

Timing

Expected by late June 2026, if argued this term

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Sep 1, 2026
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