Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha

Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 22, 1982 Reargued December 7, 1982 Decided June 23, 1983
Full case name	Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Jagdish Rai Chadha, et al.
Citations	462 U.S. 919 (more) 103 S. Ct. 2764; 77 L. Ed. 2d 317; 1983 U.S. LEXIS 80; 51 U.S.L.W. 4907; 13 ELR 20663
Case history
Prior	Appeal from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Holding
Congress may not promulgate a statute granting to itself a legislative veto over actions of the executive branch because such a veto is inconsistent with the bicameralism principle and Presentment Clause of the Constitution.
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	Burger, joined by Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor
Concurrence	Powell
Dissent	White
Dissent	Rehnquist, joined by White
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Art. I §§ 1, 7; U.S. Const. Art. III

Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983), was a United States Supreme Court case ruling in 1983 that the one-house legislative veto violated the constitutional separation of powers.^[1]