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Supreme Court· 5/3/1943

St. Pierre v. United States

Citations

  • 319 U.S. 41
  • 63 S. Ct. 910
  • 87 L. Ed. 1199
  • 1943 U.S. LEXIS 708

How courts have described this case

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

  • “Initiating and maintaining a lawsuit may waive any privilege that applies to matters at issue in the case.”
  • permitting adjudication of the merits of a criminal case where “under either state or federal law further penalties or disabilities can be imposed . . . as a result of the judgment which has . . . been satisfied”
  • selective, use of privileged information by one side may “garble” the truth — in context of Fifth Amendment
  • “[T]he moral stigma of a judgment which no longer affects legal rights does not present a case or controversy[.]”
  • “A federal court is without power to decide moot questions or to give advisory opinions which cannot affect the rights of the litigants in the case before it.”
  • “A federal court is without power to decide moot questions or to give advisory opinions which cannot affect the rights of the litigants in the case before it.”

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Judges: Per Curiam

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215 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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Other cases named St. Pierre v. United States

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