Court Opinion

ID: 9425391
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:14:34.961087+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:55.233530
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Me. Justice Powell,
dissenting.
I share the view of Mr. Justice Douglas that local Rule 13 (d)(1) is incompatible with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and this would require a reversal of the present case. Accordingly I do not reach the constitutional issue under the Seventh Amendment which is addressed by Me. Justice Brennan and Mb. Justice Marshall in their scholarly opinions, ante, pp. 149, 166. Cf. Johnson v. Louisiana, 406 U. S. 356, 366-380 (1972) (opinion of Powell, J.).