AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Succession of St. Amand 223 La. 319, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 40833 (4/27/1953) Proceedings involving title to real estate. The Civil District Court, Orleans Parish, Alexander E. Rainold, J., rendered judgment rejecting the claim of certain of the parties, and they appealed. The Supreme Court, Fournet, C. J., held that on question as to existence of marriage, for purpose of determining right of issue of such marriage to... 1953 Cases    
  Supplemental Brief for the United States on Reargument, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1 (11/1/1953) FN1. Together with No. 2, Briggs, et al. v. Elliott, et al.; No. 4, Dorothy E. Davis, et al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia, et al.; No. 8, Spottswood Thomas... 1953 Briefs    
  Supplemental Brief of Petitioner, Avery V. Georgia Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 648 (4/16/1953) This supplemental brief is prepared for two purposes: (1) A comparison of the (Avery) case at bar with the major case decided by the United States Supreme Court on the subject since the... 1953 Briefs    
  Terry V. Adams 345 U.S. 461, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 52 (5/4/1953) Suit for decree declaring plaintiffs and others similarly situated entitled to vote at political association's elections and to enjoin defendants from refusing to allow plaintiffs to vote. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Kennerly, Chief Judge, 90 F.Supp. 595, rendered a decree favorable to plaintiffs, and... 1953 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  The Proper Scope of the Civil Rights Acts. 66 Harvard Law Review 1285 (May, 1953) In the controversial field of civil liberties few legal developments have been more significant than the rediscovery of Sections 43 and 47(3) of the Civil Rights Acts. Section 43 provides a remedy in law or equity against any person acting under color of state law who deprives anyone within the jurisdiction of the United States of rights secured by... 1953 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Thomas V. Teets 205 F.2d 236, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Docket Number 13134 (4/27/1953) Application by one who had been sentenced to death under California law on guilty plea to murder charge for writ of habeas corpus on ground that he had been denied due process of law. The United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Southern Division, entered an order denying the application without issuing writ of an order... 1953 Cases   Overruling Risk
  U.s. V. Bryson U.S. Army Board of Review, Docket Number CM 360557 (4/22/1953) Sentence adjudged 11 December 1952. Approved sentence: Dishonorable discharge, total forfeiture and confinement for life. 1953 Cases    
  U.s. V. Chewning U.S. Army Board of Review, Docket Number CM 360333 (4/14/1953) Sentence adjudged 29 October 1952. Approved sentence: Dismissal, total forfeitures, and confinement for three (3) years. 1953 Cases    
  U.s. V. Grady U.S. Army Board of Review, Docket Number CM 366834 (11/18/1953) Sentences adjudged 17 July 1953. Approved sentences: GRADY-BLACKDishonorable discharge, total forfeiture, and confinement for two years. HUMPHREYDishonorable discharge, total forfeiture, and confinement for ten years. JOHNSONDishonorable discharge, total forfeiture, and confinement for four years. 1953 Cases    
  U.s. V. Ray U.S. Army Board of Review, Docket Number CM 362713 (5/27/1953) Sentence adjudged 12 February 1953. Approved sentence: Dishonorable discharge, total forfeitures, and confinement for life. 1953 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  U.s. V. Rodison U.S. Army Board of Review, Docket Number CM 363944 (7/20/1953) Sentence adjudged 20 December 1952. Approved sentence: Dishonorable discharge, total forfeitures, and confinement for fifty (50) years. 1953 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  United Railroad Operating Crafts V. Wyer 115 F.Supp. 359, United States District Court S.D. New York (4/16/1953) Action was brought to enjoin discharge by railroad of members of plaintiff union merely because they belonged to plaintiff union and not to defendant unions. The defendants made a motion to dismiss the amended complaint, and the plaintiffs made a motion for an injunction pending trial. The District Court, Conger, J., held that complaint would be... 1953 Cases    
Fowler V. Harper , George C. Pratt What the Supreme Court Did Not Do During the 1951 Term 101 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 439 (January, 1953) This is the third of somewhat laborious examinations of the cases which the Supreme Court declined to review during a term by exercising its discretionary power to deny petitions for the writ of certiorari or by dismissing appeals, a procedure but slightly less summary. A survey of the hundreds of cases which the Court disposed of in this way... 1953 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Wheeler V. State 219 Miss. 129, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 38615 (3/16/1953) Defendant was convicted in the Circuit Court, Forrest County, F. B. Collins, J., of murder, and he appealed. The Supreme Court, Lee, J., held that evidence warranted submission to jury of issue of defendant's guilt. Affirmed. Roberds, J., dissented. 1953 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Adams V. Terry 193 F.2d 600, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 13328 (1/11/1952) John Terry and others brought suit against A. J. Adams and others, officers of a political association, for a decree declaring that plaintiffs and others similarly situated were entitled to vote at the association's elections, and to enjoin defendants from refusing to allow plaintiffs to vote. The United States District Court for the Southern... 1952 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Allison V. State 157 Tex.Crim. 200, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 25703 (3/5/1952) Prosecution for rape, wherein the Criminal District Court No. 3, Harris County, A. C. Winborn, J., rendered a judgment of conviction, and defendant appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals, Morrison, J., held that reversible error had been committed with regard to argument by which State's counsel had sought to condemn as a class all testimony... 1952 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  American Thread Co. (Tallapoosa, Ga.) 101 NLRB No. 212, N.L.R.B, Docket Number Cases Nos. 10-RM-55, 10-RC-1020, (12/22/1952)   1952 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  Appellants' Brief Opposing Motion to Dismiss or Affirm., Anderson V. Jordan Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 635 (3/21/1952) Appellee contends: (1) That the record and certificate of the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court are insufficient to show that decision of a federal question was necessary to the... 1952 Briefs    
  Arkansas La. Gas Co. V. Thompson 222 La. 868, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 40511 (7/3/1952) Action was brought under the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act to have ownership of mineral rights determined. The Third Judicial District Court of the Parish of Lincoln entered judgment adverse to plaintiff, and plaintiff appealed. The Supreme Court, Fournet, C. J., held that evidence was insufficient to establish an acknowledgment sufficient to... 1952 Cases    
  Avery V. State 209 Ga. 116, Supreme Court of Georgia, Docket Number 17810 (4/14/1952) Defendant was convicted in the Superior Court, Fulton County, Claude D. Shaw, J., of rape, and he brought error. The Supreme Court, Candler, J., held, inter alia, that the conviction was supported by the evidence. Judgment affirmed. Wyatt, J., and Atkinson, P. J., dissented. See also 83 Ga.App. 700, 64 S.E.2d 589. 1952 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Bailey V. Commonwealth 193 Va. 814, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (6/16/1952) Defendant was convicted in the Circuit Court, Greensville County, J. J. Temple, J., of first degree murder and he appealed. The Supreme Court of Appeals, Buchanan, J., held that the evidence sustained the conviction. Affirmed. 1952 Cases    
  Barrows V. Jackson 112 Cal.App.2d 534, District Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 3, California, Docket Number CIV. 18717 (8/6/1952) Action by Olive B. Barrows and others against Leola Jackson to recover damages for breach of a restrictive covenant against use or occupancy of realty by non-Caucasians. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Daniel N. Stevens, J., sustained defendant's demurrer to the complaint and from the adverse judgment which followed, named plaintiff and... 1952 Cases    
  Beauharnais V. People of State of Ill. 343 U.S. 250, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 118 (4/28/1952) Prosecution for violating an Illinois statute forbidding any person from exhibiting any lithograph which portrayed lack of virtue of a class of citizens. The Municipal Court of Chicago, Joseph H. McGarry, J., rendered a judgment of conviction, and defendant appealed. The Illinois Supreme Court, Fulton, J., 408 Ill. 512,97 N.W.2d 343, affirmed the... 1952 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Bell V. Tindall 215 Miss. 343, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 38525 (11/10/1952) Borrower brought suit against alleged lender to have it declared that debt was usurious and that lender thereby forfeited all interest because more than 8% interest per annum was contracted for and collected. The Chancery Court of Tunica County, R. E. Johnson, Chancellor, entered judgment for lender, and borrower appealed. The Supreme Court,... 1952 Cases    
  Belton V. Gebhart 32 Del.Ch. 343, Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle, Docket Number CIV. A. 258, CIV. A. 265 (4/1/1952) Action by Ethel Louise Belton, an infant, by her guardian ad litem, Ethel Belton, and others, against Francis B. Gebhart, and others and action by Barbara Bulah, an infant by her guardian... 1952 Trial Court Orders   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Brief for Amici Curiae, Spottswood Thomas Bolling, et Al., Petitioners, V. C. Melvin Sharpe, et Al. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 4 (12/5/1952) This case deals with the question whether children in the public school system of the Nation's Capital may, consistently with the Constitution and laws of the United States, be separated by... 1952 Briefs    
  Brief for Amici Curiae, Spottswood Thomas Bolling, et Al., Petitioners, V. C. Melvin Sharpe, et Al. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 8 (12/5/1952) This case deals with the question whether children in the public school system of the Nation's Capital may, consistently with the Constitution and laws of the United States, be separated by... 1952 Briefs    
  Brief for Appellants, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1 (10/1/1952) The opinion of the statutory three-judge-District Court for the District of Kansas (R. 238-244) is reported at 98 F. Supp. 797. The judgment of the court below was entered on August 3, 1951... 1952 Briefs    
  Brief for Appellants, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1 (9/23/1952) The opinion of the statutory three-judge-District Court for the District of Kansas (R. 238-244) is reported at 98 F. Supp. 797. The judgment of the court below was entered on August 3, 1951... 1952 Briefs    
  Brief for Appellants, Oliver Brown, Mrs. Richard Lawton, Mrs. Sadie Emmanuel, et Al., Appellants, V. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et Al. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1 (9/1/1952) The opinion of the statutory three-judge-District Court for the District of Kansas (R. 238-244) is reported at 98 F. Supp. 797. The judgment of the court below was entered on August 3, 1951... 1952 Briefs    
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