Pillsbury Co. et al. v. Conboy

Decided January 11, 1983. Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 81-825 · 459 U.S. 248 (1983) · Cited 250 times

Holding

A deponent's civil deposition testimony, such as that in question in this case, repeating verbatim or closely tracking his prior immunized testimony, is not, without duly authorized assurance of immunity at the time, immunized testimony within the meaning of 6002, and therefore may not be compelled over a valid assertion of his Fifth Amendment privilege.

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How the Justices voted

Decided 7–2.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Kastigar v. United States · 406 U.S. 441 (1972)
• Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · 378 U.S. 52 (1964)
• Counselman v. Hitchcock · 142 U.S. 547 (1892)
• Brown v. Walker · 161 U.S. 591 (1896)
• Maness v. Meyers · 419 U.S. 449 (1975)
• Wong Sun v. United States · 371 U.S. 471 (1963)
• Harrison v. United States · 392 U.S. 219 (1968)
• Gardner v. Broderick · 392 U.S. 273 (1968)
• Ullmann v. United States · 350 U.S. 422 (1956)
• Brown v. Illinois · 422 U.S. 590 (1975)
• Garrity v. New Jersey · 385 U.S. 493 (1967)
• United States v. Calandra · 414 U.S. 338 (1974)
• Rawlings v. Kentucky · 448 U.S. 98 (1980)
• Hoffman v. United States · 341 U.S. 479 (1951)
• Speiser v. Randall · 357 U.S. 513 (1958)
• Reiter v. Sonotone Corp. · 442 U.S. 330 (1979)
• United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp. · 344 U.S. 218 (1952)
• Perma Life Mufflers, Inc. v. International Parts Corp. · 392 U.S. 134 (1968)
• Blackmer v. United States · 284 U.S. 421 (1932)
• New Jersey v. Portash · 440 U.S. 450 (1979)
• United States v. Mara · 410 U.S. 19 (1973)
• Heike v. United States · 227 U.S. 131 (1913)
• Mason v. United States · 244 U.S. 362 (1917)
• Reina v. United States · 364 U.S. 507 (1960)
• United States v. Borden Co. · 347 U.S. 514 (1954)

Cited by

Later Supreme Court opinions in our collection that cite this case.

• United States v. Doe · 465 U.S. 605 (1984)
• United States v. Balsys · 524 U.S. 666 (1998)
• Chavez v. Martinez · 538 U.S. 760 (2003)
• United States v. Sells Engineering, Inc. · 463 U.S. 418 (1983)
• Baltimore City Department of Social Services v. Bouknight · 493 U.S. 549 (1990)

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