McClindon v. California

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to impute Florida prosecutor’s knowledge of the indictment of an important government witness that was unsealed a week before trial in New York
• refusing to impute knowledge of Florida prosecutor to Assistant United States Attorney in New York, and rejecting as “completely untenable [the] position that knowledge of any part of the government is equivalent to knowledge on the part of this prosecutor”
• settlement contracts “will be upheld whenever possible because they are a means of amicably resolving doubts and uncertainties and preventing lawsuits.”
• U.S. Attorney in Southern District of New York not charged with knowledge of sealed indictment in Southern District of Florida against principal government witness
• uncontradicted evidence from taxpayer does not necessarily operate to overcome the presumption of correctness
• uncontradicted evidence from taxpayer does not necessarily operate to overcome the presumption of correctness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).