315 U.S. 810
Docket No. 912.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 2, 1942.
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1942-03-02
1 counsel of record
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
“Petition for writ of certiorari * * * denied on the ground that the cause is moot, it appearing that petitioner has been released upon order of the United States Board of Parole and that he is no longer in the respondent's custody.”
quoted by 1 later decision, including United States of America, Ex Rel. Erskine Gates v. Joseph E. Ragen, Warden, Etc.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1942-03-02
Cited by 44 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2016 · most notably Jones v. Cunningham (1963), Parker v. Ellis (1960)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
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¶1Max Weber, prose. Solicitor General Fahy for respondent.
¶2Petition for writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied on the ground that the cause is moot, it appearing that petitioner has been released upon order of the United States Board of Parole and that he is no longer in the respondent’s custody. The motion for leave to proceed further in forma pauperis is therefore also denied.