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United States v. Nixon , 418 U.S. 683 (1974), was a landmark decision [ 1 ] of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously ordered President Richard Nixon to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials related to the Watergate scandal to a federal district court .
Nixon v. United States , 506 U.S. 224 (1993), was a United States Supreme Court decision that determined that a question of whether the Senate had properly tried an impeachment was political in nature and could not be resolved in the courts if there was no applicable judicial standard.
The issue of access to the tapes went to the United States Supreme Court. On July 24, 1974, in United States v. Nixon, the Court ruled unanimously (8–0) that claims of executive privilege over the tapes were void.
The special counsel’s office is citing the second, better-known Nixon case in its arguments to the court. United States v Nixon is considered a landmark decision and one that ultimately led to ...
Nixon v. Fitzgerald , 457 U.S. 731 (1982), was a United States Supreme Court decision written by Justice Lewis Powell dealing with presidential immunity from civil liability for actions taken while in office.
The Supreme Court decides which cases it hears, so it is not required to take up the case. In a brief order issued just hours after Smith's filing, the court asked Trump's legal team to respond by ...
United States v. Glaxo Group Ltd. 410 U.S. 52 (1973) When a patent is directly involved in an antitrust violation, the government may challenge the patent’s validity Roe v. Wade: 410 U.S. 113 (1973) Abortion, due process, privacy Doe v. Bolton: 410 U.S. 179 (1973) Restrictions on abortion United States v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. 410 U ...
Presidential immunity is the concept that a sitting president of the United States has both civil and criminal immunity for their official acts. [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.