Court Opinion

ID: 9448282
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 23:29:49.455667+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:21.610657
License: Public Domain

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge
(concur-_ ring).
As I read the petition for a rehearing, it is clear that appellant thinks I should have given it more of an opinion than that filed on August 30, 1961, and that the composition should be a little better documented with citations. Perhaps, as between appellant and the court, that is correct.
But, also, I must think of the lawyers who are made poor buying copies of the reported decisions of the United States courts of appeal for the various circuits, They are published now almost one volume a month,
Here we have a transitory legal question on construction of a statute and of little precedent value on another day. I *126do not suppose I could ever convince appellant that I read every decision cited in the briefs, and many more. If I proved that, then its counsel, as good lawyers, I venture would think I did not know how to read the cases. And, if I decorated my effort with a lot of citations, I cannot imagine there would be satisfaction with the selection of citations. Certainly, a lot of citations have never saved me from the Supreme Court’s occasional four word mandate of: “Certiorari granted. Judgment reversed.”
Let it be clearly understood that counsel’s opinion of my opinion was expressed with the utmost gentility.