Opinion

Johnson v. United States Railroad Retirement Board

  • 507 U.S. 1029
  • 61 U.S.L.W. 3714
  • 113 S. Ct. 1842
  • 123 L. Ed. 2d 467
  • 1993 U.S. LEXIS 2782
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Apr 19, 1993
Status
Published
Cited by
75 cases
Authority
More cited than 93.4%

finding that sole shareholder, director, officer and employee of a corporation issued a subpoena duces tecum held no Fifth Amendment privilege, and explaining that he “chose the corporate form and gained its attendant benefits ... he cannot now disregard the corporate form to shield his business records from production”

How later courts described this case

  • finding that sole shareholder, director, officer and employee of a corporation issued a subpoena duces tecum held no Fifth Amendment privilege, and explaining that he “chose the corporate form and gained its attendant benefits ... he cannot now disregard the corporate form to shield his business records from production”
  • “Decisions whether to engage in cross-examination, and if so to what extent and in what manner, are ... strategic in nature.”
  • Napoli, Relia, Weinstein and Fishman

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.

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