Court Opinion

ID: 9427711
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:21:37.785336+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:09.279412
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Mr. Justice White,
with whom Mr. Justice Brennan joins, dissenting.
It is my view that the Court of Appeals, by declining to hear arguments until the conclusion of its summer recess, has unduly delayed plenary consideration of this case. And I do not agree with my Brothers that the petitioners have forfeited whatever rights to an early hearing they might otherwise have had. Our cases indicate that the proffered justification for an injunction against publication should be considered and verified or rejected by appellate courts without unnecessary delay. See New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U. S. 713 (1971); United States v. Thirty-seven Photographs, 402 U. S. 363 (1971); Freedman v. Maryland, 380 U. S. 51 (1965); cf. National Socialist Party v. Skokie, 432 U. S. 43 (1977); Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart, 423 U. S. 1319 (1975) (Black-*712must, J., in chambers); Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart, 423 U. S. 1327 (1975) (Blackmun, J., in chambers). As I see it, the Court of Appeals should schedule a hearing herein at the earliest date that is both practicable and consistent with mature consideration of the questions involved. I would have preferred the Court to have reached and stated this conclusion and then, on the assumption that the Court of Appeals would follow this Court’s suggestion, to have withheld the issuance of the writ of mandamus. See Connor v. Coleman, 440 U. S. 612, 613-614 (1979); Connor v. Coleman, 425 U. S. 675, 679 (1976); Bucolo v. Adkins, 424 U. S. 641, 644 (1976) ; Been v. Hickman, 358 U. S. 57, 58 (1958); cf. National Socialist Party v. Skokie, supra, at 44; Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart, supra, at 1325-1326. Of course, with or without advancement of the hearing schedule in the Court of Appeals, the petitioners, pursuant to 28 U. S.. C. § 1254 (1), may request this Court to grant certiorari prior to judgment in the Court of Appeals.