United States v. Stapf, 1962

File — Folder: 1

Identifier: Folder 1

Staff Only

no. 18,974; 309 F.2d 592 (1962), rev. 375 U.S. 118 (1963), reh. den. 375 U.S. 981 (1964)

Dissenting opinion of Judge Wisdom.

The conference agreement of the judges was to affirm in this case. Judge Bell circulated an opinion to reverse. Judge Brown had concurred, and Judge Wisdom was to dissent, when Judge Bell rewrote the opinion. Judge Brown concurred in the opinion as redrafted and Judge Wisdom dissented.

Includes opinion as initially proposed by Judge Bell; TLS of Judge Bell on his proposed opinion in this case and that in Vardell's Estate v. C.I.R., 307 F.2d 688 (1962); TL of Judge Wisdom on his decision to dissent, and on dissents of other judges from his early opinions, generally; TL of Judge Wisdom on the Bell opinion and on the merits; and, TL S of Judge Brown and TLS of Judge Bell on the merits and the position of Judge Wisdom.

Also includes TLS of Judge Bell on revision of his opinion; TLS of Judge Brown and TLS of Judge Bell on the merits and the position of Judge Wisdom.

Also includes TLS of Judge Bell on revision of his opinion; TLS of Judge Brown on the redrafted Bell opinion; and, TLS of Judge Brown on the Wisdom dissent.

And includes ALS of Assistant Attorney General Louis F. Oberdorfer on the Petition for Certiorari; TLS of Judge Brown on the granting of Certiorari and the Wisdom dissent; TLS of Professor Keith E. Morrison, University of Texas School of Law, on the Wisdom dissent; and, TLS of Dean Erwin Griswold, Law School of Harvard University, on the Wisdom dissent, the majority opinion of Judge Bell, and on reversal by the Supreme Court.

And includes TL of Judge Wisdom on N.L.R.B. v. Harbison-Fischer Manufacturing Co., 304 F.2d 738 (!962).

See also 56:2.