The U.S. Supreme Court case City of Yonkers et al. v. United States et al., 1943, revolved around the issue of whether a city could be held liable for damages caused by its fire department's negligence during wartime under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). The City of Yonkers had appealed a decision from lower courts that found it responsible for damage to federal property resulting from a fire in an armory leased by the War Department due to alleged negligence on part of their Fire Department. However, the Supreme Court ruled against Yonkers, upholding that municipalities could indeed be held accountable under FTCA and were not immune simply because they were performing governmental functions such as firefighting services during war times.

The dissenting opinion in the City of Yonkers v. United States case argued that the majority's decision to uphold a lower court ruling, which found the city guilty of intentional racial segregation in housing and education, was flawed. The dissenters believed that there wasn't enough evidence to prove intentional discrimination by the city officials or school board members. They also disagreed with imposing a remedy on an entire community for actions taken by individuals who may no longer be in power when they felt it was not proven beyond reasonable doubt that those individuals acted with discriminatory intent. Furthermore, they expressed concern about federal courts overstepping their bounds and interfering too much into local affairs without clear constitutional or statutory authority.