Court Opinion

ID: 9423030
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:05:37.261733+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:41.120273
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Mr. Justice Stewart and Mr. Justice Goldberg,
dissenting.
We would dismiss the writ of certiorari in this case as improvidently granted, believing that, as the Court’s opinion clearly demonstrates, no federal question is presented. There exists no question under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, because Sol Simons, even after his Florida divorce, “complied with the full measure of the New York decree,” ante, at 84.
No other federal question is even remotely suggested in the present posture of this case. Petitioner asserted in her petition for a writ of certiorari that “[t]he Courts of Florida have denied to the widow, Lucy C. Simons, her constitutional property rights to which she was entitled ... by the mere subterfuge of an ex parte divorce case in the Courts of Florida, where the Florida Court did not have jurisdiction because of the lack of proper residence.” We were advised at oral argument by petitioner’s counsel, however, that petitioner no longer challenged the judgment below insofar as it embodied a holding that the 1952 Florida divorce decree was valid and terminated the marital status of the parties.
The only possible questions which remain in this case, therefore, are questions of state law which are of no proper concern to this Court.