Mary Terese Grace and Thaddeus Zwicki v. Warren E. Burger, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

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• declining to apply the doctrine in actions against the United States, stating that to apply the exception in such situations would “detach [the theory] from its moorings”
• situations in which the government’s defense of the constitutionality of a federal statute is not substantially justified should be exceptional

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