AUGUSTUS L. SHAFFER, PETITIONER,

v.

THE UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Rhozier T. Brown, Jr. v. United States, 375 F.2d 310 (D.C. Cir. 1966)
  …McNabb v. United States, 123 F. 2d 848 (6th Cir.), rev’d on other grounds, 318 U.S. 332, 63 S.Ct. 608, 87 L.Ed. 819; Holmes v. United States, 56 App.D.C. 183, 186, 11 F. 2d 569, 572; Shaffer v. United States, 24 App.D.C. 417, 432-433, cert. denied, 196 U.S. 639, 25 S.Ct. 795, 49 L.Ed. 631. Defense counsel not only received the witness list 5 months in advance of trial rather than the required three days, but their objection is also weakened by the fact that they had an opportunity to cross-examine Whitmire…
• Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc. v. W. E. Hedger Transp. Corp., 167 F.2d 9 (2d Cir. 1948)
  …d rule that an error of judgment of counsel is inadequate justification for such unravelling. Mr. Justice Story in Baker v. Whiting, C. C. Me., Fed.Cas.No. 786; Merchants’ Banking Co. v. Cargo of the Afton, 2 Cir., 134 F. 727, 731, certiorari denied 196 U.S. 639, 25 S.Ct. 794, 49 L.Ed. 630. Since all the facts are now fully known, there is no occasion for a trial or for the [*20] taking of testimony. It is as much the duty of the court to protect litigants from long and utterly useless litigation as it is…