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Case Files -- Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals En Banc Opinions, Court Term 1965-1966
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Labat v. Bennett
Includes memoranda on:
Davis v. Davis
No. 21,976 ; 361 F.2d 770 (1966)
Judge Thornberry originally intended to await the opinion in Brooks before drafting the opinion in this case, believing the two cases to turn on the same issue. On reconsideration, however, he decided that Davis could be decided without ruling on that point and drafted the opinion accordingly.
The majority opinion was revised in view of a proposed special concurrance of Judge Gewin, which was...