Dickerson v. Cermel-Luft Insurance Agency, Inc.

How later courts describe this case

• excluding a state observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day after the amendment of F.R.C.P. 6(a)
• “This case involves yet another effort to make a federal question out of litigation where exclusive jurisdiction is in the State courts.”
• post-arrest seizure of taxpayer's funds and bank account for unpaid state income taxes
• such instruction, if made in the abstract, would clearly jeopardize the defendant's rights to a fair trial but, in context, the jury could only have been left with the impression that discussion was premature and ill-advised despite instruction permitting discussion