Legal Opinion
Tenet v. Doe
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 2, 2005No. 03-1395PublishedCited by 251 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
In Totten v. United States, 92 U. S. 105 (1876), we held that public policy forbade a self-styled Civil War spy from suing the United States to enforce its obligations under their secret espionage agreement. Respondents here, alleged former Cold War spies, filed suit against the United States and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), asserting estoppel and due process claims for the CIA’s alleged failure to provide respondents with the assistance it had promised in return for their espionage services. Finding that Totten did not bar respondents’ suit, the District Court and…
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