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Nixon v. Fitzgerald , 457 U.S. 731 (1982), was a United States Supreme Court decision written by Justice Lewis Powell dealing with presidential immunity from civil liability for actions taken while in office.
The next year in Halperin v. Kissinger, the D.C. Circuit extended that logic to Nixon, who had by then resigned. [10] In 1978, whistleblower A. Ernest Fitzgerald added former president Nixon to his suit against several officials involved in his firing from the Department of the Air Force. [14] This resulted in the collateral appeal Nixon v.
The case began in 1978 when Arthur Fitzgerald – a former contractor for the US Air Force – sued Nixon and other White House aides for damages after he lost his job after giving testimony to ...
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Trump's team cites Nixon v. Fitzgerald, a 1982 case in which the Supreme Court held by a 5-4 vote that former presidents cannot be sued in civil cases for their actions while in office.
Fitzgerald tried to sue former President Richard Nixon for damages. Trump now argues that the civil immunity the Supreme Court granted former presidents in the Fitzgerald case should apply to ...
The trial court and the appellate court rejected Nixon's claim. [6] Nixon appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which ruled in Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) that the president is entitled to absolute immunity from legal liability for civil damages based on his official acts.
He pointed to legal sources expressing this protection ranging from the Federalist Papers to the seminal Supreme Court case of Nixon v. Fitzgerald. That civil case established an extremely ...