Robert Cushman Murphy v. Lloyd Butler, Area Supervisor, Etc.

In my view the issues involved in this case are of such great public importance that I record my dissent to the denial of certiorari.

The petitioners in this case are residents of a heavily populated suburban area in Long Island, New York, who brought an action in 1957 to enjoin respondents, federal and state officials, from carrying out a threatened program of aerial spraying of their lands, homes, gardens and orchards with a mixture of DDT and kerosene designed to eradicate the gypsy moth, an insect injurious to forests. The program is part of a campaign embarked in 1956 by the Department of…