Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• first and basic question is what can be regarded as prospective and what must fairly be regarded as vested
• the 1970 amendment to the Jencks Act does not affect pretrial discovery of grand jury testimony
• cited approvingly in Notes of Advisory Committee on 1974 Amendments to Rules of Criminal Procedure, 62 F.R.D. 271, 311 (1975)
• purpose of statute prohibiting fees in cases involving veterans' benefits is to prevent unscrupulous persons from receiving undeserved fees
• 18 U.S.C. § 837 — transportation of explosives