Source: https://www.legalcrystal.com/case/93104/alaska-pacific-fisheries-vs
Timestamp: 2018-02-24 06:42:40
Document Index: 480452066

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 3564', '§ 134', '§ 134', '§ 5', '§ 6', '§ 128']

Alaska Pacific Fisheries Vs Alaska - Citation 93104 - Court Judgment | LegalCrystal
Alaska Pacific Fisheries Vs. Alaska - Court Judgment
LegalCrystal Citation legalcrystal.com/93104
Case Number 249 U.S. 53
Appellant Alaska Pacific Fisheries
Respondent Alaska
.....page 249 u. s. 58 the district court of alaska is a court with the jurisdiction of united states district courts and general jurisdiction in civil, criminal, equity, and admiralty causes. 4 u.s.comp. st. § 3564. in that court, these suits were brought to recover the taxes in question. as already indicated, the answer in each of the cases raised an issue as to the constitutionality of the statute under which the taxes were levied, and the question which we are now to consider is: are the judgments of the circuit court of appeals final? in interpreting the sections of the statutes controlling this matter, resort must be had to the language of the laws, to the history of the legislation, and the decisions of this court interpreting the circuit court of appeals act, now.....
Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. Alaska - 249 U.S. 53 (1919)
U.S. Supreme Court Alaska Pacific Fisheries v. Alaska, 249 U.S. 53 (1919)
The provisions of the Judicial Code governing the review of cases coming from Alaska are to be construed in the light of their legislative history and of the Judiciary Act of 1891, as construed by this Court. P. 249 U. S. 58 .
Under §§ 134, 247, and 241 of the Judicial Code, when a case involving constitutional as well as other issues is taken from the District Court for Alaska to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the judgment of the latter court is not reviewable in this Court by writ of error, but only by certiorari. P. 249 U. S. 61 .
It is true that § 134 begins by reference to cases other than those which may come to this Court, and might be construed to allow appeals to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit only in cases which could not be brought directly to this Court. But, bearing in mind the sources of the legislation which was enacted into the Judicial Code and the interpretation which this Court has placed upon the Circuit Court of Appeals Act of 1891, we are led to the conclusion that it was not the intention of Congress to give practically two appeals in the class of cases which we are now considering. Under § 5 of the Circuit Court of Appeals Act of 1891, c. 517, 26 Stat. 826, direct appeals might be taken from the district courts or circuit courts to this Court in cases which involved the construction or application of the Constitution of the United States, and where such was the only matter involved, an appeal could not be taken to the circuit court of appeals. Carolina Glass Co. v. South Carolina, 240 U. S. 305 , 240 U. S. 318 . But in cases wherein issues involved affecting the
construction and application of the Constitution, as well as others upon which the case might go to the circuit court of appeals under the Circuit Court of Appeals Act, two appeals were not allowed, and the judgment of the circuit court of appeals was final if the case was taken there, and the jurisdiction originally invoked rested solely upon grounds which by § 6 of the Circuit Court of Appeals Act (§ 128, Judicial Code) made its judgment final. Macfadden v. United States, 213 U. S. 288 ; Robinson v. Caldwell, 165 U. S. 359 ; Loeb v. Columbia Township Trustees, 179 U. S. 472 ; American Sugar Co. v. New Orleans, 181 U. S. 277 ; Boise Water Co. v. Boise City (No. 2), 230 U. S. 98 .
Under the original Alaska Act, cases involving the application of the Constitution were directly reviewable in this Court, and those reviewable by the Circuit, Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, were by the terms of the act made final in that court. The Judicial Code, which is primarily a codification of former statutes, carried the provisions of these sections into that Code with the change which made all criminal cases, capital as well as others, final in the circuit court of appeals. Itow v. United States, 233 U. S. 581 .