collusive suit
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From 319 U.S. 302 - United States v. Johnson · 1943Most cited · 291 citing opinions
Such a suit is collusive because it is not in any real sense adversary. It does not assume the 'honest and actual antagonistic assertion of rights' to be adjudicated—a safeguard essential to the integrity of the judicial process, and one which we have held to be indispensable to adjudication of constitutional questions by this Court.