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396 U.S. 117

90 S. Ct. 398

24 L. Ed. 2d 309

Docket No. 72, Misc.

Willie B. Foster v. E. B. Caldwell, Superintendent

Supreme Court of the United States · decided December 8, 1969

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Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided December 8, 1969

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1999 · most notably 195 W. Va. 573 - Appalachian Power Co. v. State Tax Department (1995), 171 W. Va. 552 - Ohio County Commission v. Manchin (1983)

4 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions

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Reber F. Boult, Jr., Charles Morgan, Jr., Melvin L. Wulf, and Eleanor Holmes Norton, for appellant.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen. of Georgia, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Exec. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Marion O. Gordon, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

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The motion to dismiss is granted and the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for a writ of certiorari, certiorari is denied.

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