United States v. District Court

We dismissed the plaintiff’s petition on October 28, 1947, because we thought that it was properly a part of a second possible appeal in the action, over which we should have no jurisdiction.1 The Supreme Court granted certiorari, and reversed our order,2 holding that, regardless of whether it would have jurisdiction over a second appeal — a question as to which it reserved judgment— the petition raised only the question whether the district court had acted in accordance with our mandate; and that this was not so inextricably enmeshed in a second appeal that we should not decide it, even…