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Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681 (1997), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case establishing that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation, in federal court, for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office. [1]
Arthur Ernest Fitzgerald filed a lawsuit against government officials that he had lost his position as a contractor for the US Air Force because of testimony made before Congress in 1968. [2] Among the people listed in the lawsuit was ex-President Richard Nixon, who argued that a president cannot be sued for actions taken while he is in office. [3]
[a] Neither civil nor criminal immunity is explicitly granted in the Constitution or any federal statute. [1] [2] The Supreme Court of the United States found in Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) that the president has absolute immunity from civil damages actions regarding conduct within the "outer perimeter" of their duties. However, in Clinton v.
The standard in court, set in the case of Bill Clinton v. Paula Jones by the Supreme Court in 1997, is that sitting presidents don’t have immunity from civil lawsuits.
Congress violates the separation of powers principle when it orders federal courts to reopen their final judgments. Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998) The Line Item Veto Act is unconstitutional because it allows the President to amend or repeal parts of statutes without the pre-approval of Congress.
Pigford v. Glickman (1999) was a class action lawsuit against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), alleging that it had racially discriminated against African-American farmers in its allocation of farm loans and assistance from 1981 to 1996.
Former commander-in-chief faces cases in Washington, Florida, New York and Georgia that could land him in prison. Josh Marcus explains each one One disgraced ex-president, four trials, six ...
Clinton’s $850,000 payment to Paula Jones in 1998 settled a civil lawsuit. The payment was public and legal, and the funds did not come from the government, nor did they amount to a campaign ...