Abner A. Wolf, Inc. v. Walch

(for remand with instructions). The profession knows generally that calendared appeals brought here are precedently and rotatively assigned to the respective Justices; also that it is the initial responsibility of each such assignee to draft and distribute to the Justices a proposed opinion of each appeal thus assigned to him. With respect to that system, it has been my regular practice since 1959 to submit to the Brethren old-fashioned hacklesmoothers headed “Per Curiam”, each struck off with steady employment of the plural pronoun “we”. Usually, but far from always, this soothing procedure…