31 Or. App. 21 - Granata v. Tanzer’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “It is fundamental to appellate jurisprudence that courts do not sit `to decide abstract, hypothetical, or contingent questions * * * or to decide any constitutional question in advance of the necessity for its decision * * *.' Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory, 325 U.S. 450, 461 , 65 S.Ct. 1384 , 89 L.Ed. 1725 (1945), quoted with approval in Thorpe v. Housing Authority, 393 U.S. 268 , 89 S.Ct. 518 , 21 L.Ed.2d 474 (1969).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 43 Or. App. 999 - Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co. v. Davis