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· 10/11/1926

United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc.

Citations

  • 272 U.S. 1
  • 47 S. Ct. 1
  • 71 L. Ed. 131
  • 1926 U.S. LEXIS 1

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing a “presumption of regularity” that undergirds the official acts of public officers, causing courts to presume that they have properly discharged their official duties
  • noting that the “pre- sumption of regularity supports the official acts of public officers, and, in the absence of clear evidence to the contrary, courts pre- sume that they have properly discharged their official duties.”
  • presuming public officials properly discharge their duties in the absence of clear evidence to the contrary
  • “[I]n the absence of clear evidence to the contrary, courts presume that [public officers] have properly discharged their official duties”
  • presumption is that public officials discharged their official duties properly, absent clear evidence to the contrary
  • presumption is that public officials discharged their official duties properly, absent clear evidence to the contrary

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Judges: Butler, Sutherland, Stone

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