Legal Opinion
Ellis v. Dixon
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 6, 1955No. 20PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
Upon reargument the Court has come to the conclusion that the writ of certiorari 1 should be dismissed as improvidently granted.
The New York Court of Appeals denied petitioner’s motion for leave to appeal without stating any ground for its decision. 306 N. Y. 981. In these circumstances we must ascertain whether that court’s decision “might” have rested on a nonfederal ground, for if it did we must decline to take jurisdiction. Stembridge v. Georgia, 343 U. S. 541, 547 (1952); see also Lynch v. New York ex rel. Pierson, 293 U. S. 52, 54 (1934). We approach the matter first by considering what…
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