Lindsey v. Normet, 405 U.S. 56 (1972)

Citation: Lindsey v. Normet, 405 U.S. 56 (1972)
Parent Document: Lindsey v. Normet, 405 U.S. 56 (1972)
Jurisdiction: United States (federal)
Original Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0405_0056_ZS.html ↗

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I am satisfied that the Court properly addresses itself to the remaining questions rather than requiring appellants, who are already destitute, to start litigation all over in the Oregon state courts. The three-judge court that decided this case is a panel of distinguished Oregon lawyers and judges. Judge Goodwin came to the District Court from the Supreme Court of Oregon. Judge Solomon has practiced and sat in Portland, Oregon, for years. Judge Kilkenny was a well-known practitioner in Pendleton, Oregon, before coming to the federal bench. These men have their roots deep in Oregon law and are by no means outsiders unfamiliar with it. On local-law questions we have long deferred to federal judges who have come from law practice in a State whose local law is at issue in a federal case. See MacGregor v. State Mutual Life Assur. Co., 315 U.S. 280 , 281 , 62 S.Ct. 607, 86 L.Ed. 846; Huddleston v. Dwyer, 322 U.S. 232 , 237 , 64 S.Ct. 1015, 1018, 88 L.Ed. 1246; Bernhardt v. Polygraphic Co., 350 U.S. 198 , 204 , 76 S.Ct. 273, 277, 100 L.Ed. 199; Magenau v. Aetna Freight Lines, 360 U.S. 273 , 281 n. 2, 79 S.Ct. 1184, 1189, 3 L.Ed.2d 1224 (Frankfurter, J., dissenting). 43

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