Ellis v. Dyson

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1975-05-19

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Mr. Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court. This action, instituted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, challenges the constitutionality of the loitering ordinance of the city of Dallas. We do not reach the merits, for the District Court dismissed the case under the compulsion of a procedural precedent of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit w…

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