Legal Opinion
Ellis v. Dyson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 19, 1975No. 73-130PublishedCited by 206 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
This action, instituted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, challenges the constitutionality of the loitering ordinance of the city of Dallas. We do not reach the merits, for the District Court dismissed the case under the compulsion of a procedural precedent of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit which we have since reversed.
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Petitioners Tom E. Ellis and Robert D. Love, while in an automobile, were arrested in Dallas at 2 a. m. on January 18, 1972, and were charged with violating the city’s loitering ordinance. That ordinance, § 31-60…
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