In 1954, the attorneys general of 41 states attempted to have the habeas corpus statute, insofar as it applies to state prisoners, declared unconstitutional.

In 1954, the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, joined by the attorney generals of forty other states, challenged the constitutionality of lower federal court review of state decisions

That necessarily confers federal power to prevent states from doing the forbidden thing. United States ex tel.

In many of these cases actions for damages for false imprisonment were dismissed for not stating a cause of action, notwithstanding proven fraud which resulted in deprivation of plaintiff's liberty.

—attorney generals from forty-one states attempted to have the writ declared unconstitutional as it applied to state prisoners).

—pleadings alleging negligent and malicious examination and certification were insufficient to state a cause of action; Keating

The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected both contentions and the Supreme Court denied certiorari.

—in a trial for murder where the defendant pleaded guilty and the court had to decide whether the penalty should be life imprisonment or death, the court's consulting a psychiatrist either so old-fashioned or so advanced as to have his opinion considered unsound by the majority of his profession would not constitute lack of due process, but that the psychiatrist's reputation …

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