Legal Opinion
Baker v. General Motors Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 13, 1998No. 96-653PublishedCited by 466 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
This ease concerns the authority of one State’s court to order that a witness’ testimony shall not be heard in any *226court of the United States. In settlement of claims and counterclaims precipitated by the discharge of Ronald El-well, a former General Motors Corporation (GM) engineering analyst, GM paid Elwell an undisclosed sum of money, and the parties agreed to a permanent injunction. As stipulated by GM and Elwell and entered by a Michigan County Court, the injunction prohibited Elwell from “testifying, without the prior written consent of [GM], ... as ... a witness of any kind ... in any…
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