Briscoe v. LaHue

Briscoe v. LaHue
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 9, 1982 Decided March 7, 1983
Full case name	Briscoe v. LaHue
Citations	460 U.S. 325 (more) 75 L. Ed.2d 96, 103 S. Ct. 1108 (1983)
Prior history	663 F.2d 713 (7th Cir. 1981)
Holding
A defendant in a criminal trial is not entitled to civil damages under the Civil Rights Act of 1871 for perjured testimony against him by police officers.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell, Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	Stevens, joined by Burger, White, Powell, Rehnquist and O'Connor
Dissent	Brennan
Dissent	Marshall, joined by Blackmun
Dissent	Blackmun
Laws applied
42 U.S.C. § 1983

Briscoe v. LaHue, 460 U.S. 325 (1983), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Title 42 U.S.C. § 1983 did not authorize a convicted state defendant to assert a claim for damages against a police officer for giving perjured testimony at the defendant's criminal trial.