Edmond v. United States

Edmond v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 24, 1997 Decided May 19, 1997
Full case name	Jon E. Edmond v. United States
Docket no.	96-262
Citations	520 U.S. 651 (more) 117 S. Ct. 1573; 137 L. Ed. 2d 917
Holding
Inferior officers are those who are supervised and directed by principal officers, that is, those officers appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Scalia, joined by Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer; Souter (Parts I and II)
Concurrence	Souter (in part)
Laws applied
U.S. Const., Art. II, §2, cl. 2

Edmond v. United States, 520 U.S. 651 (1997), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States on the status of members of the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals under the Appointments Clause.

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