Court Opinion

ID: 9431498
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:32:25.688978+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:17:05.838301
License: Public Domain

Justice Marshall,
dissenting.
I continue to believe that summary dispositions deprive litigants of a fair opportunity to be heard on the merits and create a significant risk that the Court is rendering an erroneous or ill-advised decision that may confuse the lower courts. See Pennsylvania v. Bruder, ante, p. 11 (Mar*234shall, J., dissenting); Rhodes v. Stewart, ante, p. 4 (Marshall, J., dissenting); Buchanan v. Stanships, Inc., 485 U. S. 265, 269 (1988) (Marshall, J., dissenting); Commissioner v. McCoy, 484 U. S. 3, 7 (1987) (Marshall, J., dissenting). I therefore dissent from the Court’s decision today to reverse summarily the decision below.