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Kreger V. Board of Trustees of Georgetown Independent School Dist. |
368 S.W.2d 873, Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin, Docket Number 11099 (5/29/1963) |
Action by taxpaying property owners residing in school district to restrain the district board of trustees from expending funds for erection and maintenance of school system for segrated use. The 26th District Court, Williamson County, Truman E. Roberts, P. J., denied injunctive relief and plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Civil Appeals, Archer, C.... |
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This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Lackey V. Sacoolas |
411 Pa. 235, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (6/7/1963) |
Action in equity to restrain swimming pool operator from violation of a civil rights statute. From a final decree in equity of the Court of Common Pleas, Lancaster County, Equity Docket No. 12, Page 96, W. G. Johnstone, Jr., Chancellor, appeals were taken. The Supreme Court, Nos. 106 and 107, January Term, 1963, Musmanno, J., held that one who... |
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Levitt & Sons, Inc. V. Prince George County Congress of Racial Equality |
221 F.Supp. 541, United States District Court D. Maryland, Docket Number CIV. 14942 (9/17/1963) |
Proceeding on motion by plaintiff to remand suit in equity for an injunction to state court in which plaintiff had filed the suit. The District Court, Thomsen, Chief Judge, held that state order temporarily enjoining defendants from picketing, demonstrating, making loud noises, or gathering in protest of or against plaintiff in passing upon... |
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Lillard V. State |
236 Ark. 74, Supreme Court of Arkansas, Docket Number 5065 (2/11/1963) |
First-degree murder prosecution. After jury trial, the Circuit Court, Pulaski County, William J. Kirby, J., entered judgment convicting defendant of second-degree murder and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, McFaddin, J., held that photographs of the deceased and the area of the shooting were properly admitted in evidence over defendant's... |
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Limitations on the Federal Judicial Power to Compel Acts Violating Foreign Law |
63 Columbia Law Review 1441 (December, 1963) |
PAGE I. The Modern Cases. 1443 A. Trade Regulation Cases. 1443 1. The ICI controversy. 1443 2. The Holophane case. 1446 3. The Swiss Watchmakers case. 1448 4. Recent consent decrees. 1452 5. Trademark infringement and unfair competition cases. 1453 B. Subpoena and Production of Foreign Documents. 1458 1. The Interhandel marathon. 1458 2.... |
1963 |
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Mach-tronics, Inc. V. Zirpoli |
316 F.2d 820, United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit, Docket Number 18349 (4/1/1963) |
Proceeding on petition for writ of mandamus to compel district court judge to vacate order directing that further proceedings in action instituted by petitioner be stayed. The Court of Appeals, Pope, Circuit Judge, held that abstention doctrine was not applicable to federal treble damage action for violation of anti-trust laws against defendant... |
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Mapp V. Ohio and Exclusion of Evidence Illegally Obtained by Private Parties |
72 Yale Law Journal 1062 (April, 1963) |
An important constitutional decision often has an impact upon the course of the law in subsequent cases that do not rise to constitutional dimensions. Unless the basis for a constitutional decision is clearly understood, however, its inapplicability to slightly different factual situations may not be readily perceived, for apparent similarities may... |
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Martin V. Com. Of Ky. |
221 F.Supp. 112, United States District Court W.D. Kentucky, Louisville, Docket Number CIV. 4519 (7/29/1963) |
State prisoner brought habeas corpus proceeding against the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Warden of the Kentucky State Penitentiary. The District Court, Shelbourne, J., held that state prisoner's constitutional rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were not abridged as alleged in his petition. Writ of habeas corpus dismissed. |
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Maxwell V. State |
236 Ark. 694, Supreme Court of Arkansas, Docket Number 5057 (5/27/1963) |
Prosecution on charge of rape. From an adverse judgment of the Circuit Court, Garland County, P. E. Dobbs, J., the defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Osro Cobb, Special Associate Justice, held that testimony of special agents of the FBI as to findings as to stains, body fluids, similarity of hairs, nylon thread, etc., on items of clothing and... |
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Mcclelland V. State |
373 S.W.2d 674, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 35837 (6/29/1963) |
Prosecution on charge of conversion of estate property. From an adverse judgment of the 27th Judicial District Court, Bell County, Jas. K. Evetts, J., the defendant appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals held that acting judge of probate court, who was not shown to have been present when administrator withdrew funds from estate at bank and who was... |
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Mclaughlin V. State |
153 So.2d 1, Supreme Court of Florida,, Docket Number 31906 (5/1/1963) |
Defendants were convicted of violation of statute, F.S.A. § 798.05, prescribing the punishment for interracial illicit cohabitation. The Criminal Court of Record for Dade County, Gene Williams, J., rendered judgment, and defendants appealed. The Supreme Court, Caldwell, J., held that the statute prescribing punishment for interracial illicit... |
1963 |
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Mcpherson V. Connellsville Joint School Bd. |
32 Pa. D. & C.2d 706, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Dauphin County (1/1/1963) |
Connellsville Joint School Board takes this appeal from the order of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, dated June 26, 1962, made pursuant to section 9 of the Pennsylvania Fair Employment Practice Act of October 27, 1955, P. L. 744, as amended, 43 PS §959. Subsequent to the filing of a formal complaint and hearing thereon, the... |
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Mcpherson V. Connellsville Joint School Bd. |
Not Reported in A.2d, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Dauphin Count, Docket Number 397 (11/18/1963) |
Connellsville Joint School Board takes this appeal from the order of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, dated June 26, 1962, made pursuant to section 9, of the Pennsylvania Fair Employment Practice Act of October 27, 1955, P. L. 744, as amended, 43 PS § 959. Subsequent to the filing of a formal complaint and hearing thereon, the... |
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Mcpherson V. Connellsville Joint School Bd. |
32 Pa. D. & C.2d 706, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, (1/1/1963) |
Connellsville Joint School Board takes this appeal from the order of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, dated June 26, 1962, made pursuant to section 9 of the Pennsylvania Fair... |
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Motion for Leave to File a Brief as Amici Curiae and Brief for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations and International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Uaw as Amici Curi |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 368, 404 (3/4/1963) |
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America,... |
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Motion for Leave to File Brief Amicus Curiae and Brief Amicus Curiae, Fields V. City of Fairfield |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 30 (11/12/1963) |
Petitioner, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., respectfully moves this Court for permission to file the attached brief amicus curiae and as reasons therefor sets forth the... |
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Motion for Leave to File Brief on Behalf of American Civil Liberties Union as Amicus Curiae and Brief as Amicus Curiae., Mcneese V. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 480 (3/18/1963) |
The Illinois Division of the American Civil Liberties Union, a New York corporation, respectfully moves for leave to file the attached brief as amicus curiae, in support of petitioners in... |
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Yosal Rogat |
Mr. Justice Holmes: a Dissenting Opinion |
15 Stanford Law Review 254 (March, 1963) |
This is the concluding half of one Article of a series which will attempt to prove that Mr. Justice Holmes was not, as is widely believed, uniquely responsive to claims of civil libertiesthat he was, in fact, quite often indifferent to them. In addition, the Article is concerned throughout with the general character of Holmes's thinking as a... |
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New Jersey Home Builders Ass'n V. Division on Civil Rights in Dept. Of Ed. Of State |
81 N.J.Super. 243, Superior Court of New Jersey. Chancery Division, Docket Number C-2196 (11/13/1963) |
Action by home builders' association, association of real estate boards and individual real estate broker for declaratory judgment to invalidate certain portions of the Law Against... |
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Nickelson V. Davis |
315 F.2d 782, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8819 (3/28/1963) |
Action for personal injuries sustained in an automobile accident. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Florence, J. Robert Martin, Jr., J., entered judgment for defendant and plaintiff appealed. The Court of Appeals, Haynsworth, Circuit Judge, held that court's refusal to question jurors respecting... |
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People on Complaint of Fahn V. Rockwell |
38 Misc.2d 645, Criminal Court, City of New York, New York County, Part 7B (1/16/1963) |
Proceeding on a demurrer to a complaint charging disorderly conduct. The Criminal Court of the City of New York, Milton Shalleck, J., held that the demurrer, made before the warrant was executed or the defendant was arraigned, was untimely but that the complaint was sufficient to support issuance of the warrant. Motion denied. |
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People V. Hawkins |
27 Ill.2d 339, Supreme Court of Illinois, Docket Number 37112 (3/22/1963) |
Defendant was convicted in the Criminal Court, Cook County, Leslie Salter, J., of larceny of a motor vehicle, and he brought error. The Supreme Court, House, J., held that defendant would not be deemed to have been prejudiced by testimony of a police officer that he had heard defendant offer to plead guilty to a lesser offense at preliminary... |
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People V. Hillery |
386 P.2d 477, Supreme Court of California, In Bank, Docket Number CR. 7320 (11/14/1963) |
The defendant was found guilty of first degree murder and the penalty was fixed at death. Defendant's motion for new trial was denied and judgment was duly entered in the Superior Court, Kings County, Meredith Wingrove, J. The defendant appealed by operation of West's Ann.Pen.Code, s 1239(b). The Supreme Court, Schauer, J., held that the defendant... |
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People V. Scott |
218 Cal.App.2d 249, District Court of Appeal, First District, Division 2, California, Docket Number CR. 4234 (7/12/1963) |
Prosecution based on an assault made by defendant upon a woman. From a judgment of the Superior Court, Alameda County, Donald K. Quayle, J., entered on conviction of assault with intent to commit rape, the defendant appealed and he also appealed from order denying his motion for a new trial. The District Court of Appeal, Shoemaker, J., held that... |
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Peterson V. City of Greenville |
373 U.S. 244, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 71, 58, 66, 11, 67 (5/20/1963) |
Concurring and dissenting opinions. For opinions of the Court, see 373 U.S. 244, 267, 262,83 S.Ct. 1119, 1122, 1130, 1133. |
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Petition of Kellar |
79 Nev. 28, Supreme Court of Nevada, Docket Number 4577 (1/21/1963) |
Proceeding on petition to review recommendation of the board of bar examiners that petitioner be denied admission. On preliminary motions of petitioner the Supreme Court held that where every subject of significance contained in confidential written reports concerning character of petitioner had been referred to in hearing, motion to disclose... |
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M. P. Golding |
Principled Decision-making and the Supreme Court |
63 Columbia Law Review 35 (January, 1963) |
Times change and with them the fashions, even fashions in legal thinking. In the not too distant past, some of the most respected voices among our legal theorists called for a less legalistic law and minimized the role of logic and reason in the judicial process. It is not clear how representative of the legal community the proponents of such... |
1963 |
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R. J. Coulter Funeral Home, Inc. V. Cherokee Life Ins. Co. |
32 F.R.D. 358, United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV. 3678 (1/12/1963) |
Civil antitrust suit for treble damages and for injunctive relief filed as a class action by three funeral directors against a life insurance company and a funeral home. The District Court, Frank W. Wilson, J., held that issues as to whether life insurance company which wrote burial insurance conspired with others to violate the antitrust laws with... |
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Reply Brief for Appellants, Wright V. Rockefeller |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 96 (11/12/1963) |
Many of the arguments contained in the Briefs for the Appellees Rockefeller, Lefkowitz and Lomenzo (State Br.) and the Intervenor-Defendants (Intervenor Br.) were made by the State in... |
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Reply Brief for the Petitioners, Dresner V. City of Tallahassee |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 35 (10/14/1963) |
The Respondent has failed to respond in its brief to the First and Fourteenth Amendment issues squarely raised by Petitioners. However, Respondent has presented a Statement of the Case,... |
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