explaining that law of the case doctrine, which prohibits reconsideration of issues that have been explicitly or inherently adjudicated in previous appeal, promotes judicial economy by "narrowing down the issues in successive stages of litigation”
How later courts described this case
- explaining that law of the case doctrine, which prohibits reconsideration of issues that have been explicitly or inherently adjudicated in previous appeal, promotes judicial economy by "narrowing down the issues in successive stages of litigation”
- explaining that law of case promotes judicial efficiency by narrowing issues in successive stages of litigation
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Per Curiam.
The judgment is vacated and the case is remanded to the Supreme Court of Alaska for further consideration in light of
Pickering
v.
Board of Education of Township High School District 205, Will County, ante,
p. 563.
Mr. Justice Douglas,
with whom Mr. Justice Black joins,
would reverse the judgment outright for the reasons stated by him in
Pickering
v.
Board of Education, ante,
p. 575.
Mr. Justice White dissents.