Note 103 — AMENDMENT 14
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Boynton v. Hutchinson Gas Co., 291 U.S. 656 (1934); South Carolina Highway Dept. v. Barnwell Bros., 303 U.S. 177 (1938).
The converse is not true, however; and "the interest of a State official in vindicating the Constitution * * * gives him no legal standing to attack the constitutionality of a State statute in order to avoid compliance with it.—Smith v. Indiana, 191 U.S. 138 (1903); Braxton County Ct. v. West Virginia, 208 U.S. 192 (1908); Marshall v. Dye, 231 U.S. 250 (1913); Stewart v. Kansas City, 239 U.S. 14 (1915). See also Coleman v. Miller, 307 U.S. 433, 437-446 (1939)."