''Schlesinger v. Councilman'', 420 U.S. 738 (1975), was a case decided by the
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
.
The case was a key part of government arguments in the 2006 case of ''
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld'', defending its contention that the Supreme Court should not have heard the case, because Hamdan was still being processed by a military tribunal court in Guantanamo Bay.
Both the majority opinion by Justice
John Paul Stevens
John Paul Stevens (April 20, 1920 – July 16, 2019) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the second-oldes ...
and the dissenting argument of Justice
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Gregory Scalia (; March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectu ...
referenced the case.
See also
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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 420
This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 420 of the ''United States Reports
The ''United States Reports'' () are the official record ( law reports) of the Supreme Court of the United States. They include rulings, ...
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United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Burger Court
United States military case law
1975 in United States case law
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