MURPHY v. BUTLER

No. 662.

362 U.S. 929 (1960)

MURPHY ET AL. v. BUTLER, AREA SUPERVISOR, PLANT PEST CONTROL DIVISION OF THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 28, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger Hinds and Frank C. Mebane, Jr. for petitioners. Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Doub and Alan S. Rosenthal for Butler, and Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General of New York, and Paxton Blair, Solicitor General, for the Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets of the State of New York, respondents.


The motion to substitute a party respondent is withdrawn pursuant to stipulation of counsel. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, dissenting.

In my view the issues involved in this case are of such great public importance that I record my dissent to the denial of certiorari.

The petitioners in this case are residents of a heavily populated suburban area in Long Island...

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