Burt v. Williams

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the sentence was added “in response to the Touhy decision”
• “When the United States is a party to litigation, ‘judicial control over the evidence in a case cannot be abdicated to the caprice of executive officers.’” (quoting United States v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1, 9-10, 73 S.Ct. 528, 97 L.Ed. 727 (1953))
• discussing the 1958 amendment and its effect

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).