Case Name: Lynum v. Illinois
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1961-11-13
Citations: 368 U.S. 908
Docket Number: No. 80
Parties: Lynum v. Illinois.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 368
Pages: 908–912

Head Matter:
November 13, 1961.
No. 80.
Lynum v. Illinois.

Opinion:
On petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Illinois. Consideration of the petition for certiorari is deferred to accord counsel for petitioner opportunity to secure a certificate from the Supreme Court of Illinois as to whether the judgment herein was intended to rest on an adequate and independent state ground, or whether decision of the federal claim, identified in respondent's second response as having been asserted by the petitioner at pages 66-67 in her brief in the Supreme Court of Illinois, was necessary to the judgment rendered. Cf. Loftus v. Illinois, 334 U. S. 804; Herb v. Pitcairn, 324 U. S. 117.