United States v. Elton K. Feffer and Richard R. Alter

How courts have described this case

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

• “The govern- ment may not do, through a private individual, that which it is otherwise forbidden to do.”
• agent neither discouraged or encouraged employee from disclosing her employer’s tax documents, and employee with her own private motivations to do so was not a government actor
• agency relationship turns on the government’s knowledge and the private actor’s motivation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).