Supreme Court· 2/20/1980

Stafford v. Briggs

Citations

444 U.S. 527
100 S. Ct. 774
63 L. Ed. 2d 1
1980 U.S. LEXIS 76

How courts have described this case

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concluding that a court should move beyond literal construction of a statute to effectuate “the objects and policy of the law”
holding that § 1391(e) only applies to suits that are “in essence against the United States”
holding that § 1391(e) does not apply to claims against government employees who are sued in an individual capacity
holding that absent minimum contacts other than those arising from federal employment, a court may not exercise personal jurisdiction over a federal official in his individual capacity
deciding, in face of legislative silence, that the venue provision of the Mandamus and Venue Act of 1962, 28 U.S.C. § 1391(e), necessarily is limited to mandamus-type actions
holding, based in part on this statutory language, that § 1391(e) is not applicable to actions for money damages brought against federal officials in their individual capacities.”

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Judges: Stewaet, Burger, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens, Stewart, Brennan, White, Marshall, Maeshall

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