# Hobson v. Board of Elections

> Supreme Court of the United States · May 17, 1971 · 402 U.S. 988

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8975837

## Case

- **Full name:** Hobson v. Board of Elections for the District of Columbia
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** May 17, 1971
- **Citations:** 402 U.S. 988; 29 L. Ed. 2d 154; 91 S. Ct. 1664; 1971 U.S. LEXIS 2099
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Judges:** Basis, Black, Douglas, Granted, Mitchell, Should, Whom
- **Cited by:** 47 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- reversing issuance of injunction justified only by the possibility of collateral estoppel in parallel securities litigations

## Opinion text

C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied.
Mr. Justice Black, with whom Mr. Justice Douglas joins, is of the opinion that certiorari should be granted on the basis of Mr. Justice Black’s dissent in United Public Workers v. Mitchell, 330 U. S. 75, 105 (1947).

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