Editing Young v. United States

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|court=Supreme Court of the United States
|citation=481 U.S. 787
|date=May 26, 1987
|subject=Criminal Procedure
|facts=*[https://us.louisvuitton.com/eng-us/homepage LOUIS VUITTON ®] = manufacturer of leather goods such as luxury handbags = "Vuitton"
*Klayminc = manufacturer of counterfeit Vuitton bags = "Klayminc"
*Vuitton & Klayminc reached a settlement that prohibited Klayminc from counter-feiting Vuitton goods
*The following year, Vuitton hired private investigators to find Vuitton counterfeiters
*The Vuitton investigators found evidence that Klayminc was stilling producing counterfeit Vuitton goods
*The Vuitton investigators asked to be appointed by the district court in New York to prosecute a criminal [https://www.quimbee.com/keyterms/contempt contempt] action against Klayminc
*The New York courted appointed the investigators (who were also attorneys) as special counsels to criminally prosecute Klayminc
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|procedural_history=*After their court appointment, the Vuitton investigators file a criminal contempt motion against Klayminc.
*Klayminc lost in the trial in New York for violating the settlement with Vuitton.
*The Klaymincs also lost in the appeal process in New York.
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|issues=Can counsel for a party that's a beneficiary of a court order be appointed as a criminal prosecutor in a contempt action alleging violation of that order?
|arguments=* The Klaymincs argued that their rights to an impartial prosecutor had been violated.
* The Klaymincs argued that the New York court shouldn't have appointed the Vuitton lawyers as criminal prosecutors.
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|holding=No. Counsel for a party that's a beneficiary of a court order can't be appointed as prosecutor in a contempt action alleging a violation of that order.
|reasons=In this case, the district court in New York didn't refer the case to a United States Attorney (federal government official lawyers) before appointing a private special prosecutor that worked for Vuitton.
|rule=[[William J. Brennan Jr.]] : [https://www.quimbee.com/keyterms/conflict-of-interest Conflict-of-interest] rules govern representation; thus, when private attorneys are given a contract to represent the United States government, the prosecutors must pursue the public's interest.
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