Ferri v. Ackerman

How courts have described this case

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• Congress established reasonable compensation for lawyers in the Criminal Justice Act of 1964 \[i]n response to evidence that unpaid appointed counsel were sometimes less diligent or less thorough than retained counsel ...\
• “Indeed, an indispensable element of the effective performance of [defense counsel’s] responsibilities is the ability to act independently of the Government and to oppose it in adversary litigation.”
• “the prosecutor and the judge represent the interest of society as a whole”
• disclosure of lawyer-client privileged materials by inadvertence still results in waiver
• state immunity doctrines not matters of federal interest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).