John Marshall Harlan II

“ However, respondents can muster forceful arguments in their support, even on the assumption that the accrued vacation pay was subject to the claims of creditors-a point of California law which the court below found it unnecessary to decide. ”

“ In my view this case is another instance in which the pressure of an overcrowded docket had led the Court to deal summarily with an issue which, if deserving of our attention at all, is deserving of full-dress treatment. Cf. United States v. Maryland Savings-Share Insurance Corp., 400 U.S. 4, 91 S.Ct. ”