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Sullivan, Tax Commissioner of Connecticut, et al. v. United States et al., 1969 — 393 U.S. 1012 · caselaw · US
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Sullivan, Tax Commissioner of Connecticut, et al. v. United States et al.
393 U.S. 1012·Supreme Court of the United States·1969
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Opinion
No. 610.
Sullivan, Tax Commissioner of Connecticut, et al. v. United States et al.
Robert K. Killian, Attorney General of Connecticut, and F. Michael Ahern, Ralph G. Murphy, and Richard A. Gitlin, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellants. Solicitor General Griswold for the United States. Brief of amici curiae, in support of appellants, was filed by: MacDonald Gallion, Attorney General, and Willard W. Livingston for the State of Alabama; Duke W. Dunbar, Attorney General, and Aurel M. Kelly, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Colorado; Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, and William L. Harper, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Georgia; John B. Breckinridge, Attorney General, and William F. Riley, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Kentucky; James S. Erwin, Attorney General, and John R. Doyle, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Maine; Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Jon. F. Oster, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Maryland; Elliot L. Richardson, Attorney General, and Alan J. Dimond, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Massachusetts; Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, and Maurice Barbour, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Michigan; Douglas M. Head, Attorney General, for the State of Minnesota; Norman H. Anderson, Attorney General, and Walter W. Nowotny, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Missouri; Ralph H. Gillan, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Nebraska; Harvey Dickerson, Attorney General, for the State of Nevada; Thomas Wade Bruton, Attorney General, and Robert L. Gunn, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of North Carolina; William C. Sennett, Attorney General, and Edward T. Baker, Deputy Attorney General, for the State of Pennsylvania; Crawford C. Martin, Attorney General, Nola White, First Assistant Attorney General, Kerns B. Taylor, Assistant Attorney General, and A. J. Carubbi, Jr.. Executive Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Texas; Robert Y. Button, Attorney General, and M. Harris Parker, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Virginia; James Barrett, Attorney General, for the State of Wyoming; and the States of Louisiana and Oklahoma.
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Appeal from C. A. 2d Cir. Probable jurisdiction noted.