Supreme Court of the United States, 1974

Sloan v. Nixon

Sloan v. Nixon
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided October 29, 1974
419 U.S. 958; 95 S. Ct. 218; 42 L. Ed. 2d 174; 1974 U.S. LEXIS 3031 (United States Reports)

Sloan v. Nixon

Opinion of the Court

C. A. 2d Cir. Four Members of *959the Court have disqualified themselves in this case. Be-cáuse of this absence of a quorum, 28 U. S. C. § 1, and since a majority of the qualified Justices are of the opinion that the case cannot be heard and determined at the next Term of Court, the judgment is affirmed under 28 U. S. C. § 2109, which provides that under these circumstances “the court shall enter its order affirming the judgment of the court from which the case was brought for review with the same effect as upon affirmance by an equally divided court.”

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