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Myers v. United States

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Limited by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
272 U.S. 52
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
35 of 35
Citing cases (total)
35
Treatment dates
1935
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. Myers v. United States is limited: all 35 flagged citations have been read, and the confirmed treatment is listed below. Humphrey's Executor v. United States confined Myers's removal ruling to purely executive officers and upheld statutory cause-based protection for Federal Trade Commissioners.
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Myers's holding that Senate consent was not required to remove a first-class postmaster remains intact; later courts, including the Supreme Court in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, continued to rely on its principle of presidential supervision.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

35 later cases cite Myers v. United States; 35 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

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  • The Supreme Court confined Myers's removal ruling to purely executive officers and held that the President could not remove a Federal Trade Commissioner without one of the causes specified by Congress.

    Humphrey's Executor v. United States · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    The office of a postmaster is so essentially unlike the office now involved that the decision in the Myers case cannot be accepted as controlling our decision here. ... Putting aside dicta, which may be followed if sufficiently persuasive but which are not controlling, the necessary reach of the decision goes far enough to include ... all purely executive officers. It goes no farther; — much less does it include an officer who occupies no place in the executive department and who exercises no part of the executive power vested by the Constitution in the President.
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