The courts narrowed down the lawsuit and eventually threw it out.
Voters in four states defeated voucher referendums through 2007, and state courts narrowed or ended some programs.
Last term, the court narrowed earlier decisions barring the use of evidence obtained through police misconduct.
Last year, the court narrowed the scope of the law under which Mr. Black was convicted and returned his case to the lower courts.
Even if the Court narrows the scope of honest-services fraud when it issues its ruling, probably next year, that may only lead to reduced sentences or perhaps retrials for the two supplicants.
In that case, involving the fraud conviction of Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former chief executive of Enron, the court narrowed the interpretation of the law, which makes it a crime "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services".
Rejecting some of those requests, today the court narrowed the scope of documents that the IRS can request from Coinbase to taxpayer ID number, name, date of birth, address, transaction logs and account statements, deeming the rest of the documents "not necessary".
In the process, that court narrowed the scope of so-called "FDA exemption" and stunned the biotech community.The Supreme Court today rejected such a narrow view, saying that research even untied to a specific drug approval effort could be eligible for the FDA exemption.
Mr. Carey's lawyer, Mark Hulkower, said the courts should narrow the restrictions on socializing.
As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg notes in a dissent, Mr. Cheney could have asked the trial court to narrow the questions it allowed.
