Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Merrell Williams

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that, in cases where nonparty lawmakers moved to quash subpoenas based on legislative privilege, “the only question was whether the subpoenas inquired into legislative conduct”
• explaining that the privilege applies “when the action complained of falls within the legislative sphere”
• explaining that, in cases where nonparty lawmakers moved to quash subpoenas based on legislative privilege, “the only question was whether the subpoenas inquired into legislative conduct”
• quashing subpoenas for disclosure of subcommittee documents served on members of a Congressional subcommittee by private defendants in an unrelated civil lawsuit
• quashing subpoenas for disclosure of subcommittee documents served on members of a Congressional subcommittee by private defendants in an unrelated civil lawsuit
• removing only the enforceability of the subpoena to federal court, not the whole case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).