Legal Opinion · Dissent

Sandra Craig Boson v. Dr. Edwin L. Rippy, as President of the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Independent School District, Dallas County, Texas

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided April 8, 1960No. 18046_1Published

1DissentCameron, Circuit Judge

For several reasons I cannot subscribe to the result announced and the reasons given in the per curiam opinion in which the majority has concurred.

I

I do not think the case is legally before us. We have no jurisdiction, except that conferred by statute. The per curiam opinion rests jurisdiction upon 28 U.S.C.A. § 1292(a) (1) providing for appeals from interlocutory orders of district courts “granting, continuing, modifying, refusing or dissolving injunctions, or refusing to dissolve or modify injunctions * * ” This appeal does not, in my opinion, come within the ambit of that statute.

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2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Marbury v. MadisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1803
  2. Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
  3. Cobbledick v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
  4. United States v. RainesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
  5. Baltimore Contractors, Inc. v. BodingerSupreme Court of the United States · 1955

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