Totten v. United States

Totten v. United States

SCOTUSCase
Litigants=Totten v. United States
ArgueDate=
ArgueYear=
DecideDate=April 10
DecideYear=1876
FullName=Totten, Administrator, v. United States
USVol=92
USPage=105
Citation=23 L. Ed. 605; 1875 U.S. LEXIS 1732; 2 Otto 105
Prior=Appeal from the Court of Claims
Subsequent=
Holding=Courts cannot hear cases in disputes involving spying contracts, because it might do harm to make public the details of the enterprise and embarrass the government.
SCOTUS=1874-1877
Majority=Field
JoinMajority="unanimous"
LawsApplied=

"Totten v. United States", 92 U.S. 105 (1875), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court ruled on judicial jurisdiction in espionage cases. The court deemed an oral contract between a deceased spy and President Lincoln was unenforceable because courts cannot hear cases in disputes involving spying contracts, because it might do harm to make public the details of the enterprise and embarrass the government.

This case was later referenced by the court in a similar context in the 2005 case of "Tenet v. Doe".

ee also

*State Secrets Privilege
* List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 92

External links

* [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=92&page=105 Full text opinion from Findlaw.com]


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