Court Opinion

ID: 9418634
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:34:24.187007+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:07.228470
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Mr. Justice Brandéis.
For reasons stated in John P. King Manufacturing Co. v. City Council of Augusta, ante, p. 100, Mr. Justice Holmes and'I think that the writs of error in these cases also should be dismissed. Treating these writs of error as *138petitions for certiorari (see Gaines v. Washington, ante, p. 81), we think that the petitions should be denied. The trivial character of the questions presented illustrates again the wisdom of not granting, in cases involving the orders of administrative boards, a review as of right— with its attendant right to oral argument. It is true that each of these cases presents a question involving the Federal Constitution. But in both the controlling principle is well settled,, and the question presented is simply whether on the particular facts it is applicable. Obviously such- a question is of no general importance. The number of administrative boards, state» and municipal, with like power to issue orders is now very large. Each board issues many orders. And each order may, by its application to varying, facts, give rise to many distinct constitutional questions. Dahnke-Walker Milling Co. v. Bondurant, 257 U. S. 282.