Connecticut Action Now, Inc. v. Roberts Plating Company, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that prosecutors possess discretionary authority to bring criminal actions, and they are “immune from control or interference by citizen or court.”
• holding that prosecutors are “immune from control or interference by citizen or court”
• noting that it is a “truism” long recognized by federal courts that crimes are always prosecuted by the government and not by private complaint
• § 413 delegates enforcement to Department of Justice; private party may not force prosecution under § 407
• “It is a truism . . . that in our federal system crimes are always prosecuted by the Federal Government[.]”
• “It is a truism . . . that in our federal system crimes are always prosecuted by the Federal Government[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).