National Treasury Employees Union v. Richard M. Nixon, Individually and as President of the United States

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “no immunity established under any case known to this Court bars every suit against the President for injunctive, declaratory or mandamus relief”
• finding that the case “presents a most appropriate instance for the use of a declaratory decree”
• recognizing authority to issue mandamus but finding it “most appropriate” to “opt instead” to issue declaratory relief
• declaring “constitutional duty” of President to issue pay increase to certain public employees pursuant to legislation
• considering declaratory judgment to be a less drastic remedy than a writ of mandamus
• considering declaratory judgment to be a less drastic remedy than a writ of mandamus

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).