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Ahrens Vs. Clark

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 21, 1948

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  2. Price Vs. Johnston US Supreme Court · May 24, 1948
  3. Wade Vs. Mayo US Supreme Court · Jun 14, 1948
  4. United States Vs. Griffin US Supreme Court · Feb 28, 1938
  5. Bowen Vs. Johnston US Supreme Court · Jan 30, 1939
  6. Duncan Vs. Kahanamoku US Supreme Court · Feb 25, 1946
  7. U.S. 188 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court Ahrens v. Clark
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  8. U.S. 188 (1948) Ahrens v. Clark
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  9. frequently arisen in the lower federal courts. But the general view is that their jurisdiction is so confined. McGowan v. Moody
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  10. United States v. Day
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  11. Jones v. Biddle
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  12. United States v. Schlotfeldt
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  13. Cf. Sanders v. Allen
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  14. Tippitt v. Wood
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  15. from specific exceptions created by Congress, the jurisdiction of the district courts is territorial. See Georgia v. Pennsylvania
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  16. See Walker v. Johnston
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  17. has placed on the power of the District Court to act. Hence, it may not be waived by the parties. United States v. Griffin
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  18. Sanders v. Bennett
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  19. important questions upon which these petitioners are as much entitled to hearing and decision as Ludecke. Cf. Ludecke v. Watkins
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  20. even assiduously, out of regard for the writ's great office in the vindication of personal liberty. See, e.g., Bowen v. Johnston
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  21. from the accepted premise that, for this purpose, the jurisdiction of the district court is territorial, see Georgia v. Pennsylvania
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  22. the section's otherwise unlimited phrasing from authorizing process to run without territorial limitation, cf. Georgia v. Pennsylvania
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  23. for them to compel the petitioner's production in such an inconvenient or otherwise inappropriate forum. See Beard v. Bennett
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  24. establishing jurisdiction in any court in the land. Such a situation might arise from military detention, cf. Duncan v. Kahanamoku
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  25. in time of emergency with consequent disruption of the means of keeping personal records in order, cf. Hirabayashi v. United
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  26. Cf. Sunal v. Large
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  27. of the writ to be made outside the limits of the state in which the court sits, see United States ex rel. Corsetti v. Commanding
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  28. whether service on the turnkey would constitute service on the custodian. See United States ex rel. Goodman v. Roberts
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  29. here. I think the case presented by the petition is one in which we can give belief, and the decision in United States v. Davis
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  30. Emphasis added.) 15 Mich. at 441. Some of the cases following this view are Emerson v. Guthner
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  31. Crowell v. Crowell
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  32. Shaw v. Shaw
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  33. Queen v. Barnardo
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  34. United States v. Davis
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  35. McGowan v. Moody
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  36. Sanders v. Allen
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  37. App.D.C. 307, 100 F.2d 717. See Tippitt v. Wood
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  38. Burns v. Welch
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  39. Of the cases cited in note 17, only McGowan v. Moody
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  40. and In re Bickley are in accord with today's decision. And even those two cases are distinguishable. In McGowan v. Moody
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  41. District by inmates of those institutions even though they are confined beyond its territorial jurisdiction. Sanders v. Allen
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  42. App.D.C. 307, 100 F.2d 717. See Burns v. Welch
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  43. that the Court of Appeals reached this result in the face of the apparently inconsistent earlier holding in McGowan v. Moody
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  44. the court had jurisdiction, it properly declined to exercise it because relief was available elsewhere, see Sanders v. Allen
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  45. or, at least by implication, on the ground that Secretary Moody was not a proper party respondent. See Sanders v. Bennett
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  46. App.D.C. 32, 148 F.2d 19, 20, n. 2. Both of these grounds indicate that the Court of Appeals no longer regards McGowan v. Moody
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  47. of this reservation with the decision is highlighted by the citation, apparently with approval, of McGowan v. Moody
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  48. U.S. Supreme Court Ahrens v. Clark
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  49. See Georgia v. Pennsylvania
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  50. Ludecke. Cf. Ludecke v. Watkins
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