United States v. Hatter

United States v. Hatter
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 20, 2001 Decided May 21, 2001
Full case name	United States, Petitioner v. Terry J. Hatter, Judge of the District Court for the Central District of California, et al.
Citations	532 U.S. 557 (more) 121 S. Ct. 1782; 149 L. Ed. 2d 820
Case history
Prior	203 F.3d 795 (Fed. Cir. 2000), affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.
Holding
The Compensation Clause bars the government from collecting Social Security taxes from federal judges who held office before Congress extended those taxes; Medicare taxes can be collected.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Breyer, joined by Rehnquist, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg
Concur/dissent	Scalia
Concur/dissent	Thomas
Stevens and O'Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

United States v. Hatter, 532 U.S. 557 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case decided in 2001. The case concerned an alleged violation of the Compensation Clause of the United States Constitution when Congress extended Medicare and Social Security taxes to federal judge salaries. Additionally, the case dealt with whether a later increase of federal judge salaries, greater than the new taxes, remedied the potential violation.