Leak and Lose Act of 2023

Subjects: Law, Civil actions and liability, Judicial procedure and administration, Supreme Court

Summary:  <p><b>Leak and Lose Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill establishes federal criminal offenses for acts involving the concealment, removal, or destruction of an opinion or draft opinion of the Supreme Court before it is published. </p> <p>Specifically, the bill prohibits the willful and unlawful (1) concealment, removal, mutilation, obliteration, or destruction of an opinion or draft opinion; (2) attempt to conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, or destroy an opinion or draft opinion; and (3) taking or carrying away (including electronically) of an opinion or draft opinion with the intent to conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, or destroy. </p> <p>An individual who violates the prohibition is subject to a $5,000 fine and, if applicable, the permanent forfeiture of his or her admission to federal courts for the practice of law.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 441 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 441

To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the concealment, 
removal, or mutilation of a Supreme Court opinion or draft opinion, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 20, 2023

    Mr. Timmons (for himself, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Fry, Mr. Norman, Mr. 
 Aderholt, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Guest, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. 
Wilson of South Carolina, and Ms. Mace) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the concealment, 
removal, or mutilation of a Supreme Court opinion or draft opinion, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Leak and Lose Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. CONCEALMENT, REMOVAL, OR MUTILATION OF SUPREME COURT OPINION OR 
              DRAFT OPINION.

    Section 2071 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, 
mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with 
intent to do so takes and carries away (including electronically) from 
a building in which the Supreme Court conducts business, any opinion or 
draft opinion of a case being heard by the Supreme Court, prior to the 
date on which such opinion is published by the Supreme Court, shall be 
fined $5000, and if applicable, shall forfeit their admission to all 
Federal courts and shall be ineligible for admission to a Federal court 
for the remainder of their life.''.
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