LERNER

v.

CASEY ET AL., CONSTITUTING THE NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY

Citator

Cited By

• Ivanhoe Irrigation Dist. v. McCRACKEN, 357 U.S. 275 (U.S. 1958)
  …California law, and finding the provisions of the contracts contrary thereto, it refused confirmation. The water districts and agency involved, joined by the State of California, appealed, and we postponed the question of jurisdiction to the merits. 355 U. S. 803 (1957). We have concluded, for reasons hereinafter set forth, that we have no jurisdiction over the appeals. Treating the papers as petitions for certiorari, 28 U. S. C. § 2103, we grant certio-rari. On the merits, we deem the contracts controlled b…
• Lerner v. Casey, 357 U.S. 468 (U.S. 1958)
  ….), and the Court of Appeals, 2 N. Y. 2d 355, 141 N. E. 2d 533, both affirmed, each by a divided court. An appeal to this Court was brought under 28 U. S. C. § 1257 (2), and we postponed to the hearing on the merits the question of our jurisdiction. 355 U. S. 803. As will appear from this opinion, we consider that the constitutional questions before us relate primarily, and more substantially, to the propriety of the findings made by appellees rather than to the validity of the provisions of the Security Ris…