Opinion

Apton v. Wilson

  • 506 F.2d 83
  • 165 U.S. App. D.C. 22
  • 1974 U.S. App. LEXIS 7184
Court
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Filed
Aug 16, 1974
Status
Published
Author
Wilkey
On the bench
Leventhal, Leyenthal, MacKinnon, Wilkey
Cited by
106 cases

giving as examples of safeguards in the judicial process “the discretion of the grand jury, the procedures of a trial, and the potential sanction of discipline imposed by the court itself’

How later courts described this case

  • giving as examples of safeguards in the judicial process “the discretion of the grand jury, the procedures of a trial, and the potential sanction of discipline imposed by the court itself’
  • specifically applying Scheuer to suit brought under first and fourth amendments
  • IRS agents held entitled to only qualified immunity
  • alleged wiretapping using warrant obtained using perjured testimony

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

WILKEY, Circuit Judge

(concurring) :

I concur in Judge Leventhal’s opinion for the court. And, viewing the issue before us as carefully defined in Part II.A. of the opinion, I find nothing in the court’s opinion inconsistent with the observations of Judge MacKinnon, and therefore join in his expression of views.

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