Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Kuhn v. United States

452 U.S. 916

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.