Legal Opinion · Dissent

Finberg v. Sullivan

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided October 27, 1980No. 79-1129Published

1DissentAldisert, Circuit Judge

My disagreement with the majority is fundamental and all pervasive. We are divided not so much over the choice, interpretation, or application of legal precepts as by a primary difference in our understanding of federalism. My views of Pennsylvania Common Pleas Court practice are nadiral to those of the majority; our disagreement, irreconcilable. Yet because we *65are intimately absorbed in “our natural law inheritance in constitutional adjudication,”1 our debate must be spirited and robust. Only if it is will the common law adjudicatory tradition be truly respected and, by a percolating…

2Cases cited70 opinions

  1. Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. Mathews v. EldridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  3. In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  4. Ex Parte YoungSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  5. Goldberg v. KellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970

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