Shira v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• allowing indictment of criminal conspiracy between husband and wife and holding spousal communication privilege does not apply where both spouses engaged together in criminal activity
• access to town boards in connection with efforts to perfect zoning amendments for shopping malls
• Court engaged in an analysis of “access-barring” in the context of the legislative process
• rule requiring graduation from ABA approved law school for admission valid
• where corporation settles shareholder derivative suit, corporate officer co-defendant who is bound by settlement and therefore lacks standing to challenge settlement on appeal in capacity as officer may not circumvent bar by asserting right to appeal in capacity as non-settling shareholder
• zoning board of appeals, county planning board and town board

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).