EX PARTE ABERNATHY

U.S. | 1943-10-18
320 U.S. 219 Supreme Court of the United States (1943) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 88 L. Ed. 3 · 64 S. Ct. 13 · 1943 U.S. LEXIS 230 · SCDB 1943-024
Cited by 40 cases

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The Supreme Court denied petitioners' applications for writs of habeas corpus, reaffirming that while it possesses discretionary jurisdiction to issue such writs in aid of its appellate jurisdiction, it will not exercise that discretion where adequate remedies exist in lower federal courts or, in state court cases, where the petitioner has not exhausted state court remedies.

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Per Curiam.

Per Curiam.

The applications are severally denied.

In these cases petitioners invoke the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred on this Court by 28 U. S. C. §§ 377, 451, to issue writs of habeas corpus in aid of its appellate jurisdiction. Cf. Ex parte Peru, 318 U. S. 578, 582-3. That jurisdiction is discretionary, id. 584; Bowen v. Johnston, 306 U. S. 19, 27, and this Court does not, save in exceptional circumstances, exercise it in cases where an adequate remedy may be had in a lower federal court, Ex parte Current, 314 U. S. 578; Ex parte Spaulding, 317 U. S. 593; Ex parte Hawk, 318 U. S. 746, or, if the relief sought is from the judgment of a state court, where the petitioner has not exhausted his remedies in the state courts, Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U. S. 103, 115; Ex parte Botwinski, 314 U. S. 586; Ex parte Davis, 317 U. S. 592, 318 U. S. 412; Ex parte Williams, 317 U. S. 604. Refusal of the writ, without more, is not an adjudication on the merits and is to be taken as without prejudice to an application to any other court for the relief sought.

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  • Brown v. Allen, 344 U.S. 443 (U.S. 1953)
    …, 764, 765. We have frequently said that the denial of certiorari “imports no expression of opinion upon the merits of a case.” House v. Mayo, 324 U. S. 42, 48; Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. v. Wolf Bros. & Co., 240 U. S. 251, 258. Cf. Ex parte Abernathy, 320 U. S. 219. When on review of proceedings no res judicata or precedential effect follows, the result would be in accord with that expression, that statement is satisfied. But denial of certiorari marks final action on state criminal proceedings. In fields othe…
  • Darr v. Burford, 339 U.S. 200 (U.S. 1950)
    …Spencer, 228 U. S. 652, 660-61. Bryant v. Zimmerman, 278 U. S. 63, 70. 294 U. S. 103. The point has been confirmed many times. Ex parte Botwinski, 314 U. S. 586; Ex parte Davis, 317 U. S. 592; Ex parte Williams, 317 U. S. 604; Ex parte Abernathy, 320 U. S. 219; and see cases cited in note 25, infra. 321 U. S. 114, 116-17. White v. Ragen, 324 U. S. 760, 767; House v. Mayo, 324 U. S. 42, 46, 48; Marino v. Ragen, 332 U. S. 561, 564; Wade v. Mayo, 334 U. S. 672, 679; Young v. Ragen, 337 U. S. 235, 238. And…
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  • Ex parte Hawk, 321 U.S. 114 (U.S. 1944)
    …in this Court by appeal or writ of certiorari, have been exhausted. Tinsley v. Anderson, 171 U. S. 101, 104-5; Urquhart v. Brown, 205 U. S. 179; United States ex rel. Kennedy v. Tyler, 269 U. S. 13; Mooney v. Holohan, supra, 115; Ex parte Abernathy, 320 U. S. 219. And where those remedies have been exhausted this Court will not ordinarily entertain an application for the writ before it has been sought and denied in a district court or denied by a circuit or district judge. Ex parte Hawk, supra; Ex parte Aber…

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