United States v. Lovett

United States v. Lovett
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued May 3–6, 1946 Decided June 3, 1946
Full case name	United States v. Lovett, consolidated with United States v. Watson, and United States v. Dodd
Citations	328 U.S. 303 (more) 66 S. Ct. 1073; 90 L. Ed. 1252
Case history
Prior	Lovett v. United States, 66 F. Supp. 142 (Ct. Cl. 1945); cert. granted, 327 U.S. 773 (1946).
Court membership
Chief Justice vacant Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinions
Majority	Black
Concurrence	Frankfurther, joined by Reed
Jackson took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. art. I, § 9

United States v. Lovett, 328 U.S. 303 (1946), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Congress may not forbid the payment of a salary to a specific individual, as it would constitute an unconstitutional bill of attainder.