BURFORD

v.

DAUGHERTY, U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE, ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Flast v. Cohen, 392 U.S. 83 (U.S. 1968)
  …f Frothingham that appellants lacked standing. Judge Frankel dissented. 271 F. Supp. 1 (1967). From the dismissal of their complaint on that ground, appellants appealed directly to this Court, 28 U. S. C. § 1253, and we noted probable jurisdiction. 389 U. S. 895 (1967). For reasons explained at length below, we hold that appellants do have standing as federal taxpayers to maintain this action, and the judgment below must be reversed. I. We must deal first with the Government’s contention that this Court l…
• Reading Co. v. Brown in Bankruptcy, 391 U.S. 471 (U.S. 1968)
  …by neither side.3 On petition for review, the [*475] referee was upheld by the District Court. On appeal, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, sitting en banc, affirmed the decision of the District Court by a 4-3 vote. We granted certiorari, 389 U. S. 895, because the issue is important in the administration of the bankruptcy laws and is one of first impression in this Court. For reasons to follow, we reverse. Section 64a of the Bankruptcy Act provides in part as follows: “The debts to have priorit…
• Talmanson v. United States, 386 F.2d 811 (1st Cir. 1967)
  …on his own exchequer. Whatever may be the law allowing citizens to bring actions to protect the public interest, Frothingham v. Mellon, 262 U.S. 447, 43 S.Ct. 597, 67 L.Ed. 1078 (1923); Flast v. Gardner, 271 F.Supp. 1 (S.D.N.Y.), prob. juris, noted, 389 U.S. 895, 88 S.Ct. 218, 19 L.Ed.2d 212 (1967), we think that an individual must show a closer nexus between private interest and public good before he may assert an alleged defect in a public law or regulation as a defense to an alleged infringement of his r…