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Reply Brief of Appellee, Anderson V. Martin |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 51 (9/23/1963) |
The Complainants, Dupuy H. Anderson and Acie J. Belton, filed the complaint on June 8, 1962 against Wade O. Martin, Jr., Secretary of State of the State of Louisiana, in the United States... |
1963 |
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Rhodes V. Meyer |
225 F.Supp. 80, United States District Court D. Nebraska, Docket Number CIV. 01682 (12/3/1963) |
Action under the Civil Rights Act against certain state judges, officials, officers and members of the bar for damages arising out of plaintiff's prosecution by a state for contempt. Motions were filed by defendants to dismiss plaintiff's amended complaint. The District Court, Delehant, Senior District Judge, held that Justice of the Supreme Court... |
1963 |
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Rudolph V. State |
275 Ala. 115, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 6 DIV. 808 (1/17/1963) |
Rape prosecution. The Circuit Court, Jefferson County, Wallace Gibson, J., entered judgment on jury verdict finding defendant guilty and imposing the death penalty. The defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Lawson, J., held that state's evidence tending to show that no threat was ever made against the defendant, that he was not physically... |
1963 |
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Rumbaugh V. Winifrede R. Co. |
213 F.Supp. 620, United States District Court, S.D. West Virginia, Docket Number CIV. 2478 (1/29/1963) |
Action by discharged railroad employee to recover damages from railroad and union for wrongful discharge. On motion by defendants to dismiss the complaint the District Court, Field, Chief Judge, held that discharged railroad employee could not maintain an action against railroad and union for wrongful discharge in federal District Court where there... |
1963 |
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This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains and overruling risk. |
Norman Dorsen |
Senator Eastland's Attack on the United States Supreme Court: an Analysis and Response |
111 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 693 (April, 1963) |
On May 2, 1962, Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made an extended attack on the Supreme Court He charged that in a large number of cases the Justices of the Court had voted pro-Communist, thus threatening fundamentally the basic security of our country from the onslaught of the Communist... |
1963 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Shreveport Packing Corp. |
141 NLRB No. 114, N.L.R.B, Docket Number Case No. 15-CA-2120 (4/11/1963) |
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1963 |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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Sloan V. Kramer-orloff Co. |
371 Mich. 403, Supreme Court of Michigan, Docket Number 56 (11/4/1963) |
Slander action. The Circuit Court for the County of Wayne, Thomas J. Murphy, J., granted defendants a new trial after the jury had found for plaintiff, and plaintiff appealed. The Supreme Court, Kelly, J., held that the grant of a new trial on the ground that the verdict was against the great weight of the evidence was not an abuse of discretion.... |
1963 |
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Stanton Land Co. V. City of Pittsburgh |
33 Pa. D. & C.2d 756, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Allegheny County (1/1/1963) |
This case which is one of first impression in Pennsylvania involves both a bill in equity and a counterclaim in equity. Plaintiffs Stanton Land Company and Francis X. Totten instituted this litigation in an effort to nullify the effect of an order of January 24, 1963, which was issued against them by the Commission on Human Relations of the City of... |
1963 |
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Stanton Land Co. V. City of Pittsburgh |
33 Pa. D. & C.2d 756, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, (1/1/1963) |
This case which is one of first impression in Pennsylvania involves both a bill in equity and a counterclaim in equity. Plaintiffs Stanton Land Company and Francis X. Totten instituted this... |
1963 |
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State ex Rel. Fair Share Organization, Inc. V. Newton Circuit Court |
244 Ind. 112, Supreme Court of Indiana, Docket Number 30403 (6/14/1963) |
Relators brought original mandamus proceeding in the Appellate Court to compel the Newton Circuit Court to enter special findings of fact and conclusions of law in compliance with anti-injunction statutes or to set bond to be posted by corporation in its injunction action against the relators. The Supreme Court, Jackson, J., held that it had no... |
1963 |
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State of Ark. V. Howard |
218 F.Supp. 626, United States District Court E.D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division, Docket Number PB-63-C-9 (5/31/1963) |
Proceeding involving removal of state prosecutions to federal court. The District Court, Henley, Chief Judge, held that petitioner, who was not a party to a suit in which federal court entered order for integration of school and who was not required, authorized or requested in such order to do anything, was not implementing court's order in... |
1963 |
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State V. Cade |
244 La. 534, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 46297 (4/29/1963) |
Prosecution for criminal anarchy against member of a sect known as Muslims which allegedly advocated the subversion of government by violence or other unlawful means. From a judgment of the Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Ouachita, Mack E. Barham, J., the defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Sanders, J., held that evidence consisting of... |
1963 |
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State V. Cox |
244 La. 1087, Supreme Court of Louisiana, 46395, Docket Number 46396 (6/28/1963) |
The defendant was convicted of obstructing public passages and of disturbing the peace. The Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Fred A. Blanche, Jr., J., rendered judgment, and the defendant appealed and brought certiorari. The Supreme Court, Summers, J., held that the statutes prohibiting obstructing public... |
1963 |
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State V. Garrison |
244 La. 787, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 46686 (6/4/1963) |
Prosecution for criminal defamation allegedly committed by defendant who, as district attorney, made derogatory remarks concerning judges of the Criminal District Court of the Parish of Orleans. From a judgment of the Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, William H. Ponder, Judge ad hoc, the defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Hamlin, J.,... |
1963 |
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State V. Green |
244 La. 80, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 46229 (2/18/1963) |
Defendant was convicted in the Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu, Clement M. Moss, J., of unlawfully selling narcotics and he appealed. The Supreme Court, Hawthorne, J., held, inter alia, that even if a warrent of arrest was defective that was not a bar to a prosecution of defendant on an information by which the court... |
1963 |
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This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
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Statement as to Jurisdiction, City of New Orleans V. Barthe |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 663 (12/7/1963) |
Appellants, the City of New Orleans; Victor H. Schiro, Mayor of the City of New Orleans; Lester J. Lautenschlaeger, Director, Department of Recreation of the City of New Orleans; Joseph... |
1963 |
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Statement as to Jurisdiction, Schiro V. Bynum |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 580 (10/24/1963) |
Appellants, Victor H. Schiro, Mayor of the City of New Orleans; Wiltz W. Wagner, Managing Director, Municipal Auditorium of New Orleans; and, Joseph Giarrusso, Superintendent of Police of... |
1963 |
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Stell V. Savannah-chatham County Bd. Of Ed. |
318 F.2d 425, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 20557 (5/24/1963) |
Proceeding on a motion for a preliminary injunction requiring a prompt start to desgregation of county schools. From an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Frank M. Scarlett, J., denying the motion, the plaintiffs appealed. On a motion by plaintiffs for an injunction pending its consideration of the... |
1963 |
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Louis L. Jaffe |
Suits Against Governments and Officers: Sovereign Immunity |
77 Harvard Law Review 1 (November, 1963) |
Professor Jaffe addresses himself to the history of the doctrine of sovereign immunity as applied to suits against administrative officers in England and the United States. He analyzes English precedents to show that relief was available against the King's officers through procedures which did not require the King's consent and were not thought to... |
1963 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Taylor V. Dearborn Tp. |
370 Mich. 47, Supreme Court of Michigan, Docket Number 124 (4/5/1963) |
Proceeding upon bill by class-acting plaintiffs to contest incorporation of city as violative of rights protected by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The Circuit Court, Wayne County, in Chancery, Donald E. Holbrook, J., ruled that the incorporation violated no asserted rights and an appeal was taken. The Supreme Court held that no present... |
1963 |
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Harold J. Berman |
The Dilemma of Soviet Law Reform |
76 Harvard Law Review 929 (March, 1963) |
The Soviet Union has in the last decade instituted significant reforms to make its legal system more rational and humane. Professor Berman describes what he considers the major trends of this reform, pointing out, however, that the fundamental role of law in the Soviet system remains that of a means to achieve ends determined by a Party hierarchy... |
1963 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The South's Amended Barratry Laws: an Attempt to End Group Pressure Through the Courts |
72 Yale Law Journal 1613 (Summer, 1963) |
In the middle 1950's seven southern states suddenly discovered a need to reinvigorate and extend existing champerty, maintenance and solicitation rules. The flurry of legislation came on the heels of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in which five civil rights organizations appeared as amicus curiae. The two events were... |
1963 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The Three-judge District Court: Scope and Procedure under Section 2281 |
77 Harvard Law Review 299 (12/1/1963) |
In 1908 the Supreme Court lent its imprimatur to the practice, increasingly common after 1890, of federal district judges enjoining the enforcement of state statutes on the ground of federal unconstitutionality. Such federal interference, particularly with state regulation of railroads and public utilities, provoked widespead opposition, stemming... |
1963 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Jerre S. Williams |
The Twilight of State Action |
41 Texas Law Review 347 (February, 1963) |
It was in 1883 that the United States Supreme Court undertook to delineate the scope and application of the critical first section of the fourteenth amendment. This was done in a group of five cases, decided at once, which have come to be known as the Civil Rights Cases. The firm and clear majority opinion of Justice Bradley and the powerful and... |
1963 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Tolbert V. Truly Nolen, Inc. |
148 So.2d 521, Supreme Court of Florida, Docket Number 31860 (1/11/1963) |
Workmen's compensation case. On a writ of certiorari to the Industrial Commission, the Supreme Court, O'Connell, J., held, inter alia, that deputy commissioner could not properly arbitrarily select a date of maximum recovery upon concession that he could not delineate date, but his selection of such date, obviously not based on evidence, required... |
1963 |
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U.s. V. Barnett |
330 F.2d 369, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 20240 (4/9/1963) |
Original proceedings in criminal contempt. The equally divided Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, certified to Supreme Court for decision the question whether Governor and Lieutenant Governor were entitled to jury trial of criminal contempt charges arising out of disobedience of temporary restraining order which had been entered in university... |
1963 |
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This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
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U.s. V. Manning |
215 F.Supp. 272, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Monroe Division, Docket Number CIV. 8257 (2/23/1963) |
Suit challenging constitutionality of the Civil Rights Act of 1960. The District Court, Wisdom, Circuit Judge, held that section of Civil Rights Act of 1960 dealing with registration falls within scope of power of Congress to alter regulations prescribed by states concerning the manner of holding elections'. Judgment accordingly. |
1963 |
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U.s. V. State of La. |
225 F.Supp. 353, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division, Docket Number CIV. 2548 (11/27/1963) |
Action under Civil Rights Act by United States against State of Louisiana and certain officials to invalidate state constitutional requirement that applicant for voting registration be able to understand and give a reasonable interpretation of any section of the state or federal Constitution. A three-judge District Court, Wisdom, Circuit Judge,... |
1963 |
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Vi. Association Action Affecting Nonmembers |
76 Harvard Law Review 1037 (March, 1963) |
This Note thus far has been concerned primarily with the procedural and substantive rights of individuals whom the association concedes to be members, if only on a conditional or temporary basis, and of those whom the court may treat as members by application of the association's own rules. Like any other unit existing in society, an association is... |
1963 |
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Vii. The Effect of the Constitution |
76 Harvard Law Review 1055 (March, 1963) |
Judicial control of the actions of private associations may be dictated or circumscribed by provisions of the federal constitution. The guarantees provided by the first and fourteenth amendments, especially those of freedom of speech, of the free exercise of religion, and of a more generalized freedom of association, may preclude judicial... |
1963 |
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