New York Court of Appeals, 1947

Fleming v. Russell

Fleming v. Russell
New York Court of Appeals · Decided April 17, 1947 · <italic>Per Curiam.</italic>
73 N.E.2d 565; 296 N.Y. 985; 1947 N.Y. LEXIS 1726 (North Eastern Reporter, Second Series)

Fleming v. Russell

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The judgment of the Appellate Division must be affirmed upon the authority of Testa v. Katt (330 U. S. 386). In view of this decision it was not necessary to decide whether the statute was penal in the public international, private international or any other sense, because the courts of a State *987 have no discretion under the supremacy clause of the Federal Constitution to decline to entertain a suit for a penalty imposed by a Federal statute unless the Congress has limited the remedy to the Federal courts.

The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.

Loughran, Ch. J., Lewis, Conway, Desmond, Thacheb, Dye and Ftjld, JJ., concur.

Judgment affirmed.

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