Sostre v. McGinnis

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1971-02-24

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IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge: We voted to hear the initial argument of this appeal en banc, a procedure we reserve for extraordinary circumstances, so that we might give plenary review to a complex of urgent social and political conflicts persistently seeking solution in the courts as legal problems, a phenomenon de Tocqueville commented upon many years ago. Democracy in America, vol. I at 290 (Vintage ed. 1945)…

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