Court Opinion

ID: 9421964
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:00:43.306239+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:33.427277
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Clark,
whom Mr. Justice Harlan and Mr. Justice Whittaker join,
dissenting.
This case having now been in the courts for some six years, we think that proper judicial administration would require the Court to decide the question of collateral estoppel, raised belatedly and sua sponte. As we see it, if the Court can raise that issue here, certainly we can decide it without the additional delay of having the parties go through the motions of amending the pleadings, as suggested. The Court could then pass upon the constitutional issue and advise the Congress of its power in this important field, in which it legislated some 16 years ago.