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In re Musicians' Protective Union Local No. 814 |
Ohio Civil Rights Commission, Docket Number 2 (2/14/1962) |
We have read the record and the thorough opinion, findings, and conclusion of Dean Barrow. Upon the basis of this record we find no ground for taking further testimony or hearing further argument, and we concur in the findings of fact and conclusion of law of the Hearing Examiner, which are made a part hereof. Nonetheless, there exists substantial... |
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Jones V. State |
172 Tex.Crim. 208, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 34310 (4/4/1962) |
Prosecution for unlawful assembly. The County Criminal Court at Law No. 1, Harris County, George E. Miller, J., entered judgments of conviction as to each of the 18 defendants, and they appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals, Morrison, J., held that conduct of the 18 defendants in attempting to procure service in railroad station restaurant... |
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Jordan V. Hutcheson |
208 F.Supp. 131, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division, Docket Number CIV. 3688 (8/27/1962) |
Action for a declaratory judgment, damages and preliminary and permanent injunctions against members of a state legislative committee. The District Court, Walter E. Hoffman, Chief Judge, held that federal court did not have authority to enjoin state legislative committee from performing its duties under a statute which had been declared... |
1962 |
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This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
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Louis H. Pollak |
Judicial Power and "The Politics of the People" |
72 Yale Law Journal 81 (November, 1962) |
Since several of his senior brethren devoted well over one hundred and fifty pages of the United States Reports to discussing the issues thought to be presented in Baker v. Carr, Mr. Justice Stewart can hardly be charged with garrulousness in claiming two pages more. The central thrust of his concurring opinion was to remind the nation what it was... |
1962 |
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Jurisdictional Statement on Behalf of Appellant., Clark V. State of Louisiana |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 626 (10/24/1962) |
Appellant, Earl Clark, submits herewith his statement particularly disclosing the basis upon which this Court has jurisdiction on appeal to review the judgment of the Supreme Court of the... |
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Jurisdictional Statement, Anderson V. Martin |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 51 (12/21/1962) |
The opinion of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (R. 53) denying a preliminary injunction was rendered on June 29, 1962 and is reported at 206 F. Supp.... |
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Jurisdictional Statement, Fairview Public Utility District, Number One V. City of Anchorage |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 223 (7/2/1962) |
The Appellants, pursuant to the United States Supreme Court Rules 13 (2) and 15, file this their statement of the basis upon which it is contended that the Supreme Court of the United... |
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Jurisdictional Statement, Fields V. City of Fairfield |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 30 (10/31/1962) |
The opinion of the Supreme Court of Alabama is reported at - Ala. - , 143 So. 2d 177 and set out infra at pp. 2a-7a. No opinion was written by the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, but its... |
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Jurisdictional Statement, Honeywood V. Rockefeller |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 177 (6/13/1962) |
The opinion of the three-judge district court denying the application of these appellants for a preliminary injunction has not been reported. A cops thereof is set forth in Appendix A,... |
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Jurisdictional Statement., State of Missouri V. Brookshire |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 351, 352 (8/18/1962) |
Both of the above styled cases are based upon the killing of Ralph Burton Collings by the appellant in Boone County, Missouri on May 25, 1959. Both cases were filed in the Circuit Court of... |
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Kennedy V. Bruce |
298 F.2d 860, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19303 (2/5/1962) |
Proceeding by the Attorney General of United States for order permitting inspection of voting records of Wilcox County, Alabama, wherein Board of Registrars filed motion to dismiss the application. The Board of Registrars also commenced an action to enjoin the Attorney General and others from attempting to enforce a demand for voting records. The... |
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Kennesaw Life & Acc. Ins. Co. V. Hubbard |
106 Ga.App. 556, Court of Appeals of Georgia, Division No. 3, Docket Number 39632 (9/6/1962) |
Action on a life policy. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The Superior Court, Monroe County, Thomas J. Brown, Jr., J., overruled defendant's motions for a judgment non obstante veredicto and for a new trial. The defendant brought error. The Court of Appeals, Eberhardt, J., held that under the circumstances certain statements in... |
1962 |
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F.S.C. Northrop |
Law, Language and Morals |
71 Yale Law Journal 1017 (May, 1962) |
There is an essential connection between law, language and morals. It becomes evident when one notes what law and morals have in common and considers the language of specific moral and legal theories. Both law and morals are normative subjects. They deal with value terms as well as with language that refer to some nonnormatively described is. In... |
1962 |
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Sanford H. Kadish |
Legal Norm and Discretion in the Police and Sentencing Processes |
75 Harvard Law Review 904 (March, 1962) |
Professor Kadish examines representative occasions in which administration of the criminal law currently involves exercises of official discretion effectively isolated from judicial review and the rule of law. He finds the existence of such unfettered discretion to be a threat to basic values implicit in notions of due process of law, and concludes... |
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Matter of American Oil Co. |
60 F.T.C. 1786, F.T.C, Docket Number 8183 (6/27/1962) |
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1962 |
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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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Mcgregor & Werner, Inc. |
136 NLRB No. 124, N.L.R.B, Docket Number Case No. 10-CA-4799 (4/24/1962) |
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Meredith V. Fair |
298 F.2d 696, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19394 (1/12/1962) |
Action to enjoin state university from limiting admissions to white persons. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, 199 F.Supp. 754, Sidney C. Mize, Chief Judge, denied a preliminary injunction, and plaintiff appealed The Court of Appeals, Wisdom, Circuit Judge, held that state university's requirement that each... |
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Milstead V. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. |
273 Ala. 557, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 6 DIV. 633 (5/10/1962) |
Action by locomotive engineer against railroad and unions and others to recover damages for loss of seniority rights. The Circuit Court, Jefferson County, Whit Windham, J., gave judgment overruling demurrer to pleas in abatement and plaintiff suffered a nonsuit and appealed. The Supreme Court, Simpson, J., held that dispute arising out of... |
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Miss Bonnie Contento |
S.C.A.G (6/7/1962) |
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Mitchell V. Henslee |
208 F.Supp. 533, United States District Court E.D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division, Docket Number PB 62 C 24 (9/6/1962) |
A state prisoner brought a habeas corpus proceeding in the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division. The District Court, Young, J., held that certain contentions of the state prisoner could not be considered because not raised in original state court proceedings, and that other contentions were without... |
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Motion for Leave to File Brief Amicus Curiae and Brief of the National Lawyers Guild, Amicus Curiae, in Support of Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, Malory V. Sweeney |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 858 (12/19/1962) |
Comes now the National Lawyers Guild and pursuant to Rule 42 of the rules of this Court, hereby presents its motion for leave to file a brief amicus curiae in the above entitled cause.... |
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Motion of Memphis Citizens' Council, a Corporation, of Memphis, Tennessee, for Leave to File a Brief Amicus Curiae, in the above Styled Cause. & Amicus Curiae Brief, of Memphis Citizens' Council, a Corporation, of Memphis, Tennessee., Bd. Of Educ. Of the |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1022 (6/14/1962) |
To the Honorable, The Chief Justice of the United States and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States: Now comes the Memphis Citizens' Council, a corporation, of the... |
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Mr. Leon L. Clark |
S.C.A.G (7/27/1962) |
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1962 |
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New York Times Co. V. Sullivan |
273 Ala. 656, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 3 DIV. 961 (8/30/1962) |
Suit for libel against nonresident, corporate, newspaper publisher and others. The Circuit Court, Montgomery County, Walter B. Jones, J., entered a judgment for the plaintiff and the defendants appealed. The Supreme Court, Harwood, J., held that the publication of libelous matter in another state and the distribution of such matter within Alabama... |
1962 |
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No Evidence to Support a Conviction-the Supreme Court's Decisions in Thompson V. City of Louisville and Garner V. Louisiana |
110 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1137 (June, 1962) |
Twice in the last two years, the Supreme Court of the United States has overturned state criminal convictions on due process grounds for what the Court termed an absolute lack of evidence. The novelty of such action warrants close examination of the decisions. The first case, Thompson v. Louisville, involved an alleged violation of municipal... |
1962 |
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Northcross V. Board of Ed. Of City of Memphis, Tenn. |
302 F.2d 818, United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit, Docket Number 14642 (3/23/1962) |
Action to enjoin operation of biracial school system, or for order for submission of plan for reorganizlation of schools. The United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Marion Speed Boyd, Chief Judge, rendered a judgment from which plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals, Cecil, Circuit Judge, held that Tennessee Pupil... |
1962 |
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Notice and Hearing in Government Exclusionary Action |
110 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1009 (May, 1962) |
In Homer v. Richmond and Dixon v. Alabama State Bd. of Educ., two United States courts of appeals have recently indicated the extent to which government must afford notice and hearing to persons who have been excluded from activities in which they have previously been engaged. In Homer, appellants, who were employed as radio-telegraph operators on... |
1962 |
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Alan F. Westin |
Out-of-court Commentary by United States Supreme Court Justices, 1790-1962: of Free Speech and Judicial Lockjaw |
62 Columbia Law Review 633 (April, 1962) |
Speaking as the guest of honor at the twenty-fifth anniversary dinner of the American Law Institute in 1948, Mr. Justice Frankfurter observed: How foolish for a Justice of the Supreme Court ever to venture from the bench and accept an invitation to speak .. Were I back in Cambridge, I could talkhad I not been down here .on the Chief Justices I... |
1962 |
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People V. Jones |
205 Cal.App.2d 460, District Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 1, California, Docket Number CR. 8067 (7/6/1962) |
A defendant was convicted in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Leroy Dawson, J., of rescue, obstructing or resisting police in performance of their duties, and assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily harm, and codefendant was convicted of obstructing or resisting police in performance of their duties and assault by means of... |
1962 |
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Petitioners' Brief, Goss V. the Board of Education of the City of Knoxville, Tennessee |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 217 (12/26/1962) |
1. Goss case. The memorandum opinion of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee (R. 119) is reported at 186 F. Supp. 559. The opinion of the United States... |
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