Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Kuhn v. United States

Kuhn v. United States, 452 U.S. 916 (1981)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1981-06-08
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • antitrust laws preclude conjectural theories of injury and attenuated arguments as to causation of economic harm
  • defendant need not prove that the prosecution could not possibly result in a valid conviction in order to prove bad faith
  • prosecution brought to deter filing of civil suit against state officers
  • enjoining bad faith prosecution as exception to Younger doctrine

Citator

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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.