Voege v. AMERICAN SUMATRA TOBACCO CORPORATION

LEAHY, Senior District Judge.

1. 28 U.S.C.A. § 2281 provides means of avoiding conflict between federal and state courts by special procedures where the constitutionality of a state statute is questioned. 1 Moore, Federal Prac. ¶ 0.205. The federal statute was designed to secure the public interest in limited cases of special importance in specific areas, as established by Congress. 8 Mr. Justice Frankfurter the Phillips case 9 wrote: in

“To bring this procedural device into play — to dislocate the normal operations of the system of lower federal courts and thereafter to come directly to this…