Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Hobson v. Board of Elections
402 U.S. 988
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1971-05-17
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- reversing issuance of injunction justified only by the possibility of collateral estoppel in parallel securities litigations
- search imperative where heroin is known to be concealed on premises and search warrant is not immediately procurable
- under the facts of the case, delay in obtaining a warrant would have greatly increased the likelihood that the evidence would either be destroyed or removed
Citator
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied.
Mr. Justice Black, with whom Mr. Justice Douglas joins, is of the opinion that certiorari should be granted on the basis of Mr. Justice Black’s dissent in United Public Workers v. Mitchell, 330 U. S. 75, 105 (1947).