Hilary Davis, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. William J. Page, Jr., Etc., Circuit Judges Dixie Herlong Chastain, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Concurring in part, dissenting in partJohn R. Brown, Circuit Judge
Once again this Court in the high name of the Constitution becomes involved by the majority in the most direct way in domestic problems wisely left to the states.1 Not only that, it is done by an order declaring unconstitutional prior decisions of the state’s highest tribunal through the medium of an attack directed against innocent local state trial circuit judges, all of whom — including all other judges high and low in the whole state of Florida — are now categorically directed, without discretion or consideration of real needs, to conform to our edict. Worse, this all comes about because…
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- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Monroe v. PapeSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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