United States of America v. City of Chicago

Being of the conviction that some one hundred millions of dollars of federal revenue sharing funds were improperly and needlessly withheld from the City of Chicago and that what should have been stayed was the equitable hand of the district court rather than the flow of essential operating funds to one of the largest metropolises of this country, I respectfully dissent from that portion of the majority opinion dealing with the withholding1 of the revenue sharing funds.2

*443We need not take judicial knowledge of the financial plight of large cities, that is a matter of common knowledge; yet when a…