Case Name: WEXLER v. JANNEY et al.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1949-11-11
Citations: 177 F.2d 808
Docket Number: No. 5988
Parties: WEXLER v. JANNEY et al.
Judges: Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 177
Pages: 808–809

Head Matter:
WEXLER v. JANNEY et al.
No. 5988.
United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.
Argued Nov. 10, 1949.
Decided Nov. 11, 1949.
Christopher T. Boland, Washington, D. C. (Richard J. Connor and Gallagher, Osherrnan, Connor & Butler, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.
Harrison L. Winter, Assistant Attorney-General of Maryland (Hall Hammond, Attorney General of Maryland, on the brief), for appellees.
Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This is an appeal from an order dismissing a suit against Stuart S. Janney and others, constituting the Maryland Racing Commission, asking that certain orders of the Commission be set aside. The orders involved are those referred to in the opinion of this Court in Wexler v. Maryland State Fair et al., 4 Cir., 164 F.2d 477. The suit was properly dismissed. If the orders are absolutely void, as argued by appellant, they can be collaterally attacked in t'he suit against Maryland State Fair, and the present suit against the Racing Commission for injunctive or other relief is entirely unnecessary. If the orders are not void and action on tlhe part of the Commission is necessary to set them aside, the suit must fail as one against the state forbidden by the Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution.
Affirmed.