Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, Inc. v. Gates

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 permits “broad access to relevant information at the discovery stage”
• rejecting “the Members’ contention that the Constitution categorically bars courts from deciding whether individual documents are legislative in nature, and hence within the ambit of the Speech or Debate Clause”
• “contacting an executive agency in order to influence its conduct is not” protected activity
• “contacting an executive agency in order to influence its conduct is not” protected activity
• “The Court’s cases ‘indicate that the legislative privilege will be read broadly to effectuate its purposes. . . .’”
• negotiations over drafts of legislation are acts that are “indisputably legislative in nature”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).