Court Opinion

ID: 9425037
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:13:30.25915+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:53.405574
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Douglas,
dissenting.
I would deny the stays and deny the petitions for cer-tiorari. The grant of the stays is, with all respect, an abuse of the power to grant one. The petitions for cer-tiorari will not be voted on until October, at which time everyone knows the cases will be moot. So the action granting the stays is an oblique and covert way of deciding the merits. If the merits are to be decided, the cases should be put down for argument. As Mr. Justice Marshall has shown, the questions are by no means frivolous. The lateness of the hour before the Convention and the apparently appropriate action by the Court of Appeals on the issues combine to make a denial of the stays and a denial of the petitions the only responsible action we should take without oral argument.