Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Digital Equipment Corp. v. Department of Revenue of Washington
Digit. Equip. Corp. v. Dep’t of Revenue of Wash., 520 U.S. 1273 (1997)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1997-06-16
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- reversing conviction where there was no evidence of harm to patients from scheme in which hospital paid kickbacks to referring psychologist
- “This circuit and others have understood Harlow [v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982)] to allow inquiry into subjective motivation where an otherwise constitutional act becomes unconstitutional only when performed with some sort of forbidden motive ...”
Citator
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Sup. Ct. Wash. Certiorari denied.