Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Ex parte Lévitt
302 U.S. 633
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1937-10-11
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding petitioner lacked standing to challenge Justice Black’s appointment to the United States Supreme Court because he had no personal interest different from that in common with the public
- suit contending that Justice Black’s appointment to the Supreme Court violated the Ineligibility Clause, Art. I, § 6, cl. 2
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Motion for leave to file a petition for an order requiring Mr. Justice Black to show cause why he should be permitted to serve as an Associate Justice of this Court.
Per Curiam:The grounds of this motion are that the .appointment of Mr. Justice Black by the President and the confirmation thereof by the Senate of the United States were null and void by reason of his ineligibility under Article I, Section 6, Clause 2, of the Constitution of the United States, and because there was