Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Watts v. Bayou Landing, Ltd.

439 U.S. 818

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1978-10-02
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • holding discretionary decisions not to depart are not reviewable absent a finding of unconstitutional motive
  • “[cjoercing employees to give untrue testimony just as surely undermines the integrity of Board proceedings as does coercing employees to give no testimony at ah”
  • questioning vitality of Basurto in light of later Supreme Court decision
  • grand jurors were aware that witness had perjured himself, and his testimony was not material to grand jury's consideration
  • employee who refused to testify in support of union protected under the National Labor Relations Act
  • discrimination established under § 8(a)(4) of NLRA although employee provided no information at all during agency proceeding
  • defendants are not entitled to use bill of particulars to discover all overt acts that might be proved at trial
  • no error in admitting testimony of co-defendant where remaining defendants failed to demonstrate some “actual prejudice resulting from [the co-defendant’s] supposed knowledge of defense strategy, or that [he] communicated such knowledge to the Government”

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Authority status
pending
Cited by
101 opinions

C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.