Davis v. Jacobs

Justice Rehnquist, with whom The Chief Justice and Justice Powell join,

dissenting.

In Jeffries v. Barksdale, 453 U. S. 914 (1981), The Chief Justice, Justice Powell, and I dissented from a simple denial of the writ of certiorari, contending that the writ should *916instead be dismissed because we had no jurisdiction to consider it. Further reflection and research have only strengthened my belief that where a specific statutory enactment dealing with our jurisdiction to consider decisions of the courts of appeals limits that jurisdiction to ‘Tejases in the courts of appeals,” 28 U. S. C. § 1254, we…