United_States_v._Mouat

United States v. Mouat
United States v. Mouat
	Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 23, 1888
Full case name	United States v. Mouat
Citations	124 U.S. 303 (more)
Holding
	Only those persons appointed by the President, the courts of law, or the head of a department are Officers of the United States. All other persons are mere employees.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Morrison Waite Associate Justices Samuel F. Miller · Stephen J. Field; Joseph P. Bradley · John M. Harlan; Stanley Matthews · Horace Gray; Samuel Blatchford · Lucius Q. C. Lamar II
Case opinion
Majority	Miller, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 2

<i>United States v. Mouat</i>

United States v. Mouat

1888 United States Supreme Court case

United States v. Mouat, 124 U.S. 303 (1888), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court concerning the Appointments Clause.

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