LINEHAN v. WATERFRONT COMMISSION

No. 557.

347 U.S. 439 (1954)

LINEHAN ET AL. v. WATERFRONT COMMISSION OF NEW YORK HARBOR ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 12, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George A. Brenner for appellants.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney General of New York, Lawrence E. Walsh and Wendell P. Brown for appellees. Whitman Knapp was also for appellees in No. 558.


PER CURIAM.

The motions to affirm are granted and the judgments are affirmed.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, with whom MR. JUSTICE BLACK concurs, dissenting.

This case illustrates what I fear is a growing practice of the Court of diluting the Act of Congress which gives us jurisdiction of appeals. 28 U. S. C. § 1253 et al. The Congress carved out a group of cases, of which this is one, that comes here as of right and is not dependent, as are petitions...

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