AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  In re Applications of Gulf Beaches Broadcasting Co., Inc., St. Petersburg Beach, Florida E. P. Martin, Alpha Martin and Elmo B. Kitts, D/b/a as Hillsboro Broadcasting Company (Webk), Tampa, Florida 19 F.C.C. 615, F.C.C, Docket Number 9605, BP-7302, 9997, BP-7892 (11/24/1954)   1954 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  In re Applications of Tampa Times Company, Tampa, Florida Orange Television Broadcasting Company, Tampa, Florida Tampa Television Company, Tampa, Florida 19 F.C.C. 257, F.C.C, Docket Number 10253, BPCT-458, 10255, BPCT-947, (9/2/1954)   1954 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  In re Liapis' Estate 13 Law.L.J. 14, Orphans' Court of Pennsylvania, Lawrence County (1/1/1954) Two paragraphs of the will of Triafon Liapis, deceased, occasion difficulty. In paragraph 2 of the will he provides: Second: I give, devise and bequeath to the Socialist-Labor Party of the United States of America the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars. Second, in paragraph 4 of the will he provides: Fourth: All of the... 1954 Cases    
  Jones V. Trawick 75 So.2d 785, Supreme Court of Florida, En Banc (11/16/1954) Action by homeowners to enjoin as a private nuisance proposed cemetery. The Circuit Court for Escambia County, L. L. Fabisinski, J., dismissed the action and homeowners appealed. The Supreme Court, Roberts, C. J., held that a cemetery next to property owners' homes would so interfere with their comfort and enjoyment of their homes as to constitute... 1954 Cases    
  Kankakee County Housing Authority V. Spurlock 3 Ill.2d 277, Supreme Court of Illinois, Docket Number 33045 (5/24/1954) Proceeding, instituted by County Housing Authority, for the condemnation of land for use as a public housing site. The Circuit Court, Kankakee County, C. D. Henry, J., entered judgment for housing authority and condemnee appealed. The Supreme Court, Daily, J., held, inter alia, that fact that reference was made, in housing authority's plans, to... 1954 Cases    
  Littlefield V. Howery 266 P.2d 957, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Docket Number 35769 (2/16/1954) Action by protestants to have school district annexation order, issued by county superintendent in accord with results of election held pursuant to petition, declared void. The District Court, LeFlore County, Clyde M. Followell, J., entered judgment sustaining demurrer to evidence and objection to introduction of further evidence. Protestants... 1954 Cases    
  Machinists (Afl-cio) District Lodge 31 (Consolidated Western Steel Corp.) 39-CB-24, 39-CB-26, 39-CB-30, 39-CA-202, 39-CA-205, 39-CA-206, 39-CA-207, and 39-CA-225 (5/26/1954)   1954 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  Memorandum Brief for Appellants in Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and for Respondents in No. 5 on Further Reargument with Respect to the Effect of the Court's Decree, Oliver Brown, et Al., Appellants, V. Board of Education of Topeka, et Al., Appellees. (No. 1) Harry Bri Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5 (5/6/1954) During oral argument question was raised concerning the class suit aspect of these cases-the extent of the class and effect of a decree on members of the class not before the Court. The... 1954 Briefs    
Wallace Mendelson Mr. Justice Frankfurter and the Process of Judicial Review 103 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 295 (December, 1954) The art of life is to derive sufficient conclusions from insufficient premisesSamuel Butler. One of the threads in the fabric of American history is the clash between political and economic power. Its early manifestations in the struggle between Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians clearly indicated that victory went to the side that could obtain... 1954 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Mr. Ulysses G. Plummer, Jr. 26 Or. Op. Atty. Gen. 208, Or.A.G, Docket Number Opinion No. 2633 (1/19/1954)   1954 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
Howard Jay Graham Our "Declaratory" Fourteenth Amendment 7 Stanford Law Review 3 (December, 1954) A declaratory constitutional amendment is today almost as baffling and incongruous a concept as an unconstitutional constitution. By definition the Constitution is the ultimate--the fundamental and supreme--law. To amend it is to revise it and change it, not to discover or declare an antecedent meaning, much less to define or redefine some... 1954 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  People V. Spencer 126 Cal.App.2d 29, District Court of Appeal, First District, Division 2, California, Docket Number CR 3004 (6/16/1954) Defendant was convicted of robbery and of grand theft of an automobile. The Superior Court, City and County of San Francisco, Robert McWilliams, J., entered judgment, and defendant appealed. The District Court of Appeal, Kaufman, J., held that evidence sustained conviction. Judgment affirmed. 1954 Cases    
  People V. White 43 Cal.2d 740, Supreme Court of California, In Bank, Docket Number CR. 5613 (12/31/1954) Defendant was convicted of rape and the infamous crime against nature. The Superior Court of San Bernardino County, Martin J. Coughlin, J., entered judgment on verdict and entered an order denying motion for new trial, and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Carter, J., held that Superior Court did not commit prejudicial error in refusing to... 1954 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  President's Page 7 Stanford Law Review 1 (December, 1954) Over the years the Review has attempted to adjust its format to the readers' needs and desires, if change was at all possible. In this issue the Review has taken another step in that direction. It was called to our attention that a good many law offices cannot afford a complete set of the more voluminous reports, but only a set of annotated... 1954 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
Louis L. Jaffe Primary Jurisdiction Reconsidered. The Anti-trust Laws 102 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 577 (March, 1954) The doctrine of primary jurisdiction is a valuable corollary to the administration of the statutory purposes committed to nonjudicial agencies. It is, however, becoming a shibboleth. If the courts have at times resisted the legitimate claims of administrative autonomy under the smart of criticism, they can too much repent their sins. They may... 1954 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Reply Brief for Appellants in Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and for Respondents in No. 5 on Further Reargument, Oliver Brown, et Al., Appellants, V. Board of Education of Topeka, et Al., Appellees. (No. 1) Harry Briggs, Jr., et Al., Appellants, V. R. W. Elliott, et Al. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5 (4/11/1954) The briefs filed on this reargument by appellees and amici curiae (with the exception of those in Nos. 1 and 5, and the brief filed on behalf of the Attorney General of The United States)... 1954 Briefs    
  Reply Brief for Petitioners on Reargument, Spottswood Thomas Bolling, et Al., Petitioners, V. C. Melvin Sharpe, et Al., Respondents. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 4 (12/5/1954) In Part I of this brief we repeat the reply brief filed in this case on argument for the convenience of the Court; and, in Part II of this brief we reply to the brief of Respondents on... 1954 Briefs    
  Reply Brief for the Petitioner, Reeves V. Alabama Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 120 (11/15/1954) The argument in the reply brief shall follow the sequence of argument used in petitioner's and respondent's briefs. Respondent's brief nowhere challenges that petitioner was subjected to... 1954 Briefs    
  Seafarers (Ship Owners Ass'n of the Pacific) 107 NLRB No. 305, N.L.R.B, Docket Number Case No. 20-RC-1416 (3/10/1954)   1954 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  Smith Metal Co., Inc. 107 NLRB No. 259, N.L.R.B, Docket Number Case No. 2-CA-2607 (2/23/1954)   1954 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  South Texas Chapter, Associated General Contractors (Machinists, Local 1423) 107 NLRB No. 190, N.L.R.B, Docket Number Cases Nos. 39-CA-266, 39-CB-31, (1/28/1954)   1954 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  State ex Rel. Fox V. Brewster 140 W.Va. 235, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, Docket Number 10665 (10/12/1954) The State of West Virginia, on the relation of the Attorney General, brought quo warranto proceeding against member of the State Board of Education to oust and expel the member from his office. The Circuit Court of Kanawha County, Frank L. Taylor, J., entered judgment adverse to the Attorney General, and he brought error. The Supreme Court of... 1954 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  State V. Hamer 240 N.C. 85, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Docket Number 363 (4/7/1954) Defendant was convicted of rape. The Superior Court, Duplin County, Henry L. Stevens, Jr., J., entered judgment and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Ervin, J., held that evidence sustained determination that statement by defendant, after his arrest, admitting assault on prosecutrix, was voluntarily made, and that witnesses' statements, which... 1954 Cases    
  State V. Labat 226 La. 201, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 41718 (7/2/1954) Defendants were charged with aggravated rape. From judgments of conviction rendered by Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, Fred W. Oser, J., defendants appealed. The Supreme Court, Hawthorne, J., held that, under statute requiring that objection to manner of selecting jurors be filed before expiration of three judicial days after the grand... 1954 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  State V. Love 77 Ariz. 46, Supreme Court of Arizona, Docket Number 1037 (2/23/1954) Defendant was convicted in the Superior Court of Maricopa County, Dudley W. Windes, J., of assault with a deadly weapon and he appeals. The Supreme Court, Lazovich, Superior Court Judge, held that a new trial on ground of newly discovered evidence was properly denied. Judgment affirmed with directions. 1954 Cases    
  State V. Riviere 225 La. 114, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 41519 (3/22/1954) Defendant was convicted of attempted murder. The Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, J. Bernard Cocke, J., entered judgment, and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Hamiter, J., held, inter alia, that evidence sustained finding that defendant was presently sane. Affirmed. 1954 Cases    
  State V. Rorvick 76 Idaho 58, Supreme Court of Idaho, Docket Number 8195 (12/8/1954) Prosecution for unlawful sale of beer to an Indian. On appeal from the sustaining of demurrer by Justice of the Peace, the District Court, 6th Judicial District, Bingham County, Preston Thatcher, J., likewise sustained demurrer and dismissed proceeding and State appealed. The Supreme Court, Keeton, J., held that statute proscribing sale of... 1954 Cases    
  State V. Waitus 226 S.C. 44, Supreme Court of South Carolina, Docket Number 16908 (9/14/1954) Defendant was convicted of murder. The General Sessions Court, Georgetown County, Steve C. Griffith, J., entered judgment accordingly and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Stukes, J., held, inter alia, that the fact that defendant was arrested across North Carolina line by a South Carolina sheriff accompanied by a North Carolina deputy sheriff... 1954 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  State V. Williams 98 Ohio App. 513, Court of Appeals of Ohio, Seventh District, Mahoning County (6/7/1954) Defendant was convicted by a jury in the Municipal Court of Youngstown for operating an automobile while under influence of intoxicating liquor. From a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, Mahoning County, affirming the trial court's judgment on the verdict, defendant appealed on questions of law. The Court of Appeals, Per Curiam, held that... 1954 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Supplemental Brief for the Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas, on Questions 4 and 5 Propounded by the Court, Oliver Brown, et Al, Appellants, V. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas et Al, Appellees. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1 (9/1/1954) This supplemental brief is filed in response to the order of this Court directing and requesting further briefs and argument on questions 4 and 5 heretofore propounded by the Court. In its... 1954 Briefs    
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