Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Robinson v. Henderson
429 U.S. 940
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1976-11-08
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- using the § 40 factors to uphold a Grand Jury subpoena served on a nonresident alien even though the very act of his testifying violated Cayman Island law
- the involuntary nature of one's participation in a conspiracy to monopolize is no defense; an antitrust conspirator can be liable although participation is involuntary
- Attorney General must retain discretion in “controlling government litigation and in determining what is in the public interest”
- plaintiff entitled to injunctive relief despite failure to prove causal connection necessary to support claim for damages
- the government’s action was transferred pursuant to Section 1404 from the Western District of Texas
- intervention after judgment is unusual and not often granted
- treaty considered in litigation involving no parties of foreign nationality
- no Sixth Amendment right to counsel in civil cases
Citator
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.