Legal Opinion
Barr v. Matteo
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 29, 1959No. 350PublishedCited by 1,297 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Harlan
in which Mr. Justice Frankfurter, Mr. Justice Clark, and Mr. Justice Whittaker join.
We are called upon in this case to weigh in a particular context two considerations of high importance *565which now and again come into sharp conflict — on the one hand, the protection of the individual citizen against pecuniary damage caused by oppressive or malicious action on the part of officials of the Federal Government; and on the other, 'the protection of the public interest by shielding responsible governmental officers against the harassment and inevitable hazards of vindictive or ill-founded damage…
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