Legal Opinion
Nixon v. Fitzgerald
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 24, 1982No. 79-1738PublishedCited by 959 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Powell
The plaintiff in this lawsuit seeks relief in civil damages from a former President of the United States. The claim rests on actions allegedly taken in the former President’s official capacity during his tenure in office. The issue before us is the scope of the immunity possessed by the President of the United States.
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In January 1970 the respondent A. Ernest Fitzgerald lost his job as a management analyst with the Department of the Air Force. Fitzgerald’s dismissal occurred in the context of a departmental reorganization and reduction in force, in *734which his job was eliminated. In announcing…
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