Caso v. Gotbaum

Surrounded by walls of precedent, and moated-by centuries of channelized thinking, the law can easily suppress newness and find itself critically apart from the social amalgam which is its very reason for existence. And, the risk of analyzing fine points in isolation is the loss of total fairness and justice in the sense it is understood by the society to be served. Such are the dangers in the ease at hand.

The dispute here arises as a result of work stoppages affecting sewage treatment and garbage disposal in New York City instigated during June, 1971. Nassau County, as well as the County…