Court Opinion

ID: 9654423
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 18:19:46.097512+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:42:00.734628
License: Public Domain

LAY, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I concur in the dismissal of the petitioner’s complaint. However, I do so within the confines of the sole issue raised within the pleadings, that is, whether the Nebraska statutes §§ 76-401 and 76-402 (R.R.S.1943), constitute an “impermissible interference with federal power over foreign affairs.” This attack is made on the averment that such statutes violate Art. I, §§ 8 and 10 of the United States Constitution. As Chief Judge Robinson has succinctly discussed, this assertion is without merit. I do not find it necessary to pass on the issues of due process or equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment since they are not within the pleadings before us. For this same reason, I do not find it necessary to consider abstention or to contemplate whether Nebraska statutes may be interpreted to compensate the plaintiff for the land deemed escheated.