# Watts v. Seward School Board

> Supreme Court of the United States · May 27, 1968 · 391 U.S. 592

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/107719

## Case

- **Full name:** WATTS Et Al. v. SEWARD SCHOOL BOARD Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** May 27, 1968
- **Citations:** 391 U.S. 592; 88 S. Ct. 1753; 20 L. Ed. 2d 842; 1968 U.S. LEXIS 1473
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion
- **Judges:** Douglas, Black, White
- **Cited by:** 8 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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

## Opinion text

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.

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