Legal Opinion
Judy C. EGELSTON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AT GENESEO Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 7, 1976No. 1050, Docket 76-7047PublishedCited by 183 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:
Occasionally, there is a tendency on the part of a judge to attempt to avoid a trial where it appears to him ab initio that the trial might be a waste of time or of no avail to the plaintiff. With the crowded dockets and delay occasioned by oppressive judicial workloads, a judge may well overlook the fact that a complaint states a valid cause of action or, out of a desire to eliminate an action which he considers frivolous, dismiss it before the curtain has risen on the case. Such conditions may have impelled Judge Burke to dismiss Dr. Judy Egelston’s Title VII…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Conley v. GibsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Scheuer v. RhodesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Brown v. General Services AdministrationSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Annette Heyman v. Commerce and Industry Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975
- Love v. Pullman Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by183 opinions
- Delaware State College v. RicksSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Joseph E. Dister v. The Continental Group, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1988
- British Airways Board, 1 v. The Boeing CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978
- Harris v. City of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1999
- Smith v. American President Lines, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
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