Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1992
ISSN
0044-0094
Publisher
Yale University
Language
en-US
Abstract
The legal controversy surrounding the execution of Robert Alton Harris is only one in a series of cases over the past few months testing the proper relationship between the Supreme Court and the inferior federal courts. Controversy over inferior federal court grants or denials of injunctions concerning Haitian refugees1 and the French abortion pill2 have starkly raised, as does the Harris case3, profound questions concerning Supreme Court review of inferior court rulings on issues involving equitable relief. The Harris case did not display the American legal system at its finest. None of the participants in the process distinguished themselves-not the inferior courts, the Supreme Court, or Harris' counsel. Judge Reinhardt4 and Professors Caminker and Chemerinsky deserve credit for pointing out many of the problems posed by the Harris decisions.
Recommended Citation
Steven Calabresi & Gary S. Lawson,
Equity and Hierarchy: Reflections on the Harris Execution
,
in
Yale Law Journal
255
(1992).
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