Legal Opinion
United States v. Stanley
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 1987No. 86-393PublishedCited by 625 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
delivered the opinion of the Court.*
In February 1958, James B. Stanley, a master sergeant in the Army stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, volunteered to participate in a program ostensibly designed to test the effectiveness of protective clothing and equipment as defenses against chemical warfare. He was released from his then-current duties and went to the Army’s Chemical Warfare Laboratories at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Four times that month, Stanley was secretly administered doses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), pursuant to an Army plan to study the effects of the drug…
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