MORRIS v. FLORIDA

No. 82.

393 U.S. 850 (1968)

MORRIS v. FLORIDA.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 14, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Kanner for petitioner. Earl Faircloth, Attorney General of Florida, and Charles W. Musgrove, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.


Certiorari denied.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK, with Whom MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS joins, dissenting.

By denying certiorari in this case, the Court once again sanctions the practice of automatically depriving plaintiffs of their lawsuits or defendants of their defenses merely because their lawyers have failed to file some paper within the time required by Court rules. This is a form of vicarious punishment against which I have frequently protested in both civil and criminal...

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