Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Faubion v. Juras

411 U.S. 911

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1973-04-02
Topic
general

affirming, without opinion, Atlee v. Laird, 347 F.Supp. 689, 705-07 (E.D.Penn.1972) | affirming, without opinion, Atlee v. Laird, 347 F.Supp. 689, 705-07 (E.D.Penn.1972) | summarily affirming Logan v. Arafeh, 346 F.Supp. 1265, 1269 (D.Conn.1972), which held that a forty-five-day period was not unreasonable when the purposes of examination and preparation were considered | 45 day detention of person certified by a physician not to be a danger to himself or others prior to judicial determination of validity of his confinement was not unreasonably long | legality of war in Southeast Asia was political question | tracing the evolution of the political question doctrine | but cf. Mitchell v. Laird, supra | but cf. Mitchell v. Laird, supra

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Appeal from Ct. App. Ore. dismissed for want of substantial federal question.

Mr. Justice Douglas dissents for reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Ortwein v. Schwab, 410 U. S. 656, 661 (1973).