Boske v. Comingore

Boske v. Comingore
Boske v. Comingore
	Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 9, 1900
Full case name	Boske v. Comingore
Citations	177 U.S. 459 (more)
Holding
	An officer of an executive agency may exercise executive privilege to deny a subpoena from a federal court, and the head of that agency may issue a regulation requiring any such disclosure to be approved by that agency head.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices John M. Harlan · Horace Gray; David J. Brewer · Henry B. Brown; George Shiras Jr. · Edward D. White; Rufus W. Peckham · Joseph McKenna
Case opinion
Majority	Harlan, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
	Housekeeping Statute

Boske v. Comingore, 177 U.S. 459 (1900), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that an officer of an executive agency may exercise executive privilege to deny a subpoena from a federal court, and the head of that agency may issue a regulation requiring any such disclosure to be approved by that agency head.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Boske v. Comingore, 177 U.S. 459 (1900).
^ Hartman, Jr., Donal F. "Departmental Executive Privilege: A Bar to Disclosure When Dealing With the IRS". Gonzaga L. Rev. 11: 931, 945–46.

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[case-1] Boske v. Comingore, 177 U.S. 459 (1900).

[2] Hartman, Jr., Donal F. "Departmental Executive Privilege: A Bar to Disclosure When Dealing With the IRS". Gonzaga L. Rev. 11: 931, 945–46.

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