Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jun-29-1988
Morrison v. Olson - 487 U.S. 654 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654 (1988) Morrison v. Olson No. 87-1279 Argued April 26, 1988 Decided June 29, 1988 487 U.S. 654 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Syllabus This case presents the question of the constitutionality of the independent counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (Act). It arose when the House Judiciary Committee began an investigation into the Justice Department's role in a controversy between the House and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with regard to the Agency's limited production of certain documents that had been subpoenaed during an earlier House Investigation. The Judiciary Committee's Report suggested that an official of the Attorney General's Office (appellee Olson) had given false testimony during the earlier EPA investigation, and that two other officials of that Office (appellees Schmults and Dinkins) ha...
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