JOHNSON

v.

RHAY, SUPERINTENDENT, WASHINGTON STATE PENITENTIARY

Citator

Cited By

• Sherrie Bursey and Brenda Joyce Presley v. United States, 466 F.2d 1059 (9th Cir. 1972)
  …t regularly enters investigatory territory. (E. g., Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Comm. (1963) 372 U.S. 539, 83 S.Ct. 889, 9 L.Ed.2d 929; Barenblatt v. United States (1959) 360 U.S. 109, 79 S.Ct. 1081, 3 L.Ed.2d 1115, rehearing denied, 361 U.S. 854, 80 S.Ct. 40, 4 L.Ed.2d 93.) Grand jury proceedings are supposed to [*1083] be secret, whereas almost all other governmental activity is not; but the degree of notoriety that attaches to a particular disclosure is merely one of the factors to be con…
• Scherer v. Brennan, 379 F.2d 609 (7th Cir. 1967)
  …r an act committed within the general scope of their official authority and in performance of their official duties. Spalding v. Vilas, 161 U.S. 483, 16 S.Ct. 631, 40 L.Ed. 780; Howard v. Lyons, 360 U.S. 593, 79 S.Ct. 1331, 3 L.Ed.2d 1454, reh. den. 361 U.S. 854, 80 S.Ct. 40, 4 L.Ed.2d 93. As stated by the Supreme Court in Barr v. Matteo, supra, the principal reason for the immunity doctrine is to have government officials free to exercise their duties without fear of damage suits in respect to acts done i…
• Enriquez v. United States, 338 F.2d 165 (9th Cir. 1964)
  …S.Ct. 268, 73 L.Ed. 692 (1929); Lawn v. United States, 355 U.S. 339, 78 S.Ct. 311, 2 L.Ed.2d 321 (1958), reh. den. 355 U.S. 967, 78 S.Ct. 529, 2 L.Ed.2d 542; Barenblatt v. United States, 360 U.S. 109, 79 S.Ct. 1081, 3 L.Ed.2d 1115 (1959), reh. den. 361 U.S. 854, 80 S.Ct. 40, 4 L.Ed.2d 93; White v. United States, 317 F. 2d 231 (9th Cir. 1963). Thus, at this point, the most defendants could achieve would be a reversal of Count V; nevertheless, they would still be subject to valid sentences. We therefore fin…