KISSINGER ET AL.
v.
HALPERIN ET AL.
KISSINGER ET AL.
HALPERIN ET AL.
452 U.S. 713
Supreme Court of the United States (1981)
Negative Treatment
Also reported at: 69 L. Ed. 2d 367 · 101 S. Ct. 3132 · 1981 U.S. LEXIS 120 · SCDB 1980-132
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Per_curiam
Per Curiam.
The judgment with respect to petitioners Kissinger, Nixon, and Mitchell is affirmed by an equally divided Court. With respect to petitioner Haldeman, the writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.
Justice Rehnquist took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
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Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (U.S. 1982)…ooted in the separation of powers under the Constitution.” As Judge Gesell observed in his concurring opinion in Halperin v. Kissinger, 196 U. S. App. D. C. 285, 307, 606 F. 2d 1192, 1214 (1979), aff’d in pertinent part by an equally divided Court, 452 U. S. 713 (1981): “We should not close our eyes to the fact that with increasing frequency in this jurisdiction and throughout the country plaintiffs are filing suits seeking damage awards against high government officials in their personal capacities based…
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Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511 (U.S. 1985)…rom suit for acts performed in the exercise of his national security functions is an important one that we have hitherto left unanswered. See Halperin v. Kissinger, 196 U. S. App. D. C., 285, 606 F. 2d 1192 (1979), aff’d by an equally divided Court, 452 U. S. 713 (1981). Moreover, the issue of the appealability before final judgment of orders denying immunity under the objective standard of Harlow v. Fitzgerald is one that has divided the Courts of Appeals.5 Finally, the District Court’s decision — left stan…1 / 2
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Nixon v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 731 (U.S. 1982)…ld not be here. Lacking support for such a dismissal, however, I join the dissent. This, of course, is not simply a hypothetical example. See Halperin v. Kissinger, 196 U. S. App. D. C. 285, 606 F. 2d 1192 (1979), aff’d by an equally divided Court, 452 U. S. 713 (1981). It is ironic that this decision should come out at the time of the tenth anniversary of the Watergate affair. Even the popular press has drawn from that affair an insight into the character of the American constitutional system that is boun…1 / 3
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