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  Brief on Behalf of American Civil Liberties Union American Ethical Union American Jewish Committee Anti-defamation League of B%7dnai B%7drith Japanese American Citizens League and Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice as Amici Curiae, Oliver Brown, Mrs. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1 (11/28/1952) This brief is filed, with the consent of both parties, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Ethical Union, American Jewish Committee, the Anti- Defamation League of... 1952 Briefs    
  Brief on Behalf of American Civil Liberties Union American Ethical Union American Jewish Committee Anti-defamation League of B'nai B'rith Japanese American Citizens League and Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice as Amici Curiae, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1 (11/28/1952) This brief is filed, with the consent of both parties, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Ethical Union, American Jewish Committee, the Anti- Defamation League of... 1952 Briefs    
  Briggs V. Elliott 103 F.Supp. 920, United States District Court E.D. South Carolina, Charleston Division, Docket Number CIV. 2657 (3/13/1952) Harry Briggs, Jr., and others sued R. W. Elliott, Chairman, and other members of the Board of Trustees of School District No. 22, Clarendon County, South Carolina, and others, for injunctive relief. The three judge District Court, Parker, Circuit Judge, held that where the reports filed by defendants pursuant to court order showed that defendants... 1952 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Brotherhood of R. R. Trainmen V. Howard 343 U.S. 768, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 458 (6/9/1952) Simon L. Howard, Sr., on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, brought action against the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company for decree that contract between the railway and the defendant Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, an unincorporated association, is void and unenforcible, and for injunctive relief. The United States District... 1952 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Camp V. State 95 Okla.Crim. 70, Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma, Docket Number A-11302 (1/9/1952) John Camp was convicted in the District Court of Tulsa County, Eben L. Taylor, J., of manslaughter in the first degree, and he appealed. The Criminal Court of Appeals, Brett, P. J., held that evidence sustained conviction, and that record disclosed that incompetent evidence admitted, competent evidence excluded, and unwarranted cross examination... 1952 Cases    
Alan Furman Westin Civil Liberties under Attack. By Henry Steele Commager, Robert K. Carr, Zechariah Chafee Jr., Walter Gellhorn, Curtis Bok, and James P. Baxter Iii. Edited by Clair Wilcox. William J. Cooper Foundation Lectures, Swarthmore College. Philadelphia: University 61 Yale Law Journal 458 (March, 1952) Professor Paul Freund of the Harvard Law School once remarked that the charge against the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (placed on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations) seemed to be that they were prematurely anti-fascist. In the same vein, many books in recent years which have protested against infringements upon civil... 1952 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Cunningham V. State 85 Ga.App. 216, Court of Appeals of Georgia, Division No. 2, Docket Number 33827 (1/10/1952) Morris Cunningham was convicted in the Superior Court, Clarke County, Henry H. West, J., of assault with intent to rape, his motion for new trial was overruled, and he brought error. The Court of Appeals, Townsend, J., held that since alleged victim was under 14 years of age, evidence of intent to have carnal knowledge and that some overt act was... 1952 Cases    
  Davis V. Arn 199 F.2d 424, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 14037 (10/30/1952) Proceeding to redress alleged deprivation of rights, privileges and immunities secured to plaintiffs by Fourteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution. Plaintiffs allegedly had been refused permission to take competitive examinations for policeman and fireman positions because of their race and color, but had not availed themselves of state... 1952 Cases    
  Dowdy V. State 30 Beeler 212, Supreme Court of Tennessee (7/11/1952) Defendant was convicted in the Criminal Court, Shelby County, Sam D. Campbell, J., of unlawfully carrying a pistol, and he brought error. The Supreme Court, Prewitt, J., held that testimony by defendant's wife, that he beat her and chased her from their house into city street and had followed her with pistol in his hand threatening to shoot her,... 1952 Cases    
J. Donald Stillwell Dred Scott's Case 30 Texas Law Review 919 (October, 1952) The case of Dred Scott v. Sanford has long been regarded by students of constitutional law as a milestone. The immediate result of the United States Supreme Court decision in the case was to incite much heated discussion and perhaps directly hasten the ultimate contest of this period of economic and social strife: the Civil War. In brief, the... 1952 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Durr V. State 214 Miss. 658, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 38432 (6/9/1952) Defendant was convicted in the Circuit Court, Simpson County, Homer Currie, J., of murder, and he appealed. The Supreme Court, McGehee, C. J., held that the sole issue of whether the killing was murder or had been done in self defense was properly submitted to the jury. Judgment affirmed. Not to be Reported in State Reports. 1952 Cases    
  Duty of Union to Minority Groups in the Bargaining Unit 65 Harvard Law Review 490 (January, 1952) The collective agreement that emerges from management-union negotiations is a jointly promulgated set of principles governing the industrial life of the employees in the bargaining unit. It alone establishes the terms and conditions of employment for union and nonunion employees, majority and minority groups alike. Thus the labor contract resembles... 1952 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Elliott V. Elliott 235 N.C. 153, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Docket Number 18 (2/27/1952) Action by Frank Elliott, and others, by their next friend, Georgiana Elliott, against Robert Elliott, executor of the estate of Henry Elliott, deceased, to recover their reasonable necessary support until they each become eighteen. The Superior Court, Caswell County, J. A. Rousseau, J., entered judgment sustaining demurrer and plaintiffs appealed.... 1952 Cases    
  Francis V. Lyman 108 F.Supp. 884, United States District Court, D. Massachusetts, Docket Number CIV. 52721 (12/8/1952) Action for alleged deprivation of constitutional rights under Civil Rights Act. One defendant filed motion to dismiss and for summary judgment. The District Court, Ford, J., held that the Civil Rights Act was not applicable to judge who committed plaintiff as a defective delinquent allegedly on order issued without notice or hearing. Motions... 1952 Cases    
  Fujii V. State 38 Cal.2d 718, Supreme Court of California, in Bank, Docket Number L.A. 21149 (4/17/1952) Action by Sei Fujii against the State of California to determine whether an escheat had occurred, under provisions of the Alien Land Law, as to certain real property acquired by plaintiff. From a judgment of the Superior Court, Los Angeles County, Wilbur C. Curtis, J., adjudging that the property described in the deed to plaintiff had escheated to... 1952 Cases    
  Glen Raven Silk Mills, Inc. 101 NLRB No. 62, N.L.R.B, Docket Number Case No. 11-CA-288 (11/6/1952)   1952 Administrative Decisions & Guidance   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Gluck V. State 62 So.2d 71, Supreme Court of Florida, en Banc (12/22/1952) Prosecution for rape. The Circuit Court, Dade County, Holt, j., convicted accused of assault with intent to commit rape and he appealed. The Supreme Court, Mathews, J., held that where conduct, attitude and remarks of prosecuting attorney were highly prejudicial to accused but court did not admonish prosecuting attorney nor sustain accused's timely... 1952 Cases    
  Green V. State ex Rel. Chatham 212 Miss. 846, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B, Docket Number 38128 (1/7/1952) Action by the state, on the relation of Gerald Chatham, District Attorney, to have a cafe operated by Fred Green declared to be a public nuisance and abated as such. The Chancery Court, Yalobusha County, Herbert Holmes, Chancellor, rendered a decree for plaintiff, and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Holmes, C., held that the evidence... 1952 Cases    
  Griffin V. International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Local 1-13 109 Cal.App.2d 823, District Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 2, California, Docket Number CIV. 18385 (3/19/1952) Ralph Griffin and others brought mandamus proceedings against the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Local 113, (an unincorporated association and labor union) and another to compel defendants to reinstate plaintiffs in union. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Arnold Praeger, J., entered judgment for defendants,... 1952 Cases    
  House V. House 207 Okla. 238, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Docket Number 35386 (10/14/1952) Habeas corpus proceeding brought by natural parents of child to recover custody from wife of child's paternal great-uncle. The District Court, Okmulgee County, Jess I. Miracle, J., rendered judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Halley, V. C. J., held that the mere fact that the uncle would be in better financial... 1952 Cases    
  In the Matter of Lester Rothschild Trading as Gen-o-pak Company, American Deposit System, and Manpower Classification Bureau 48 F.T.C. 1047, F.T.C, Docket Number 5853 (3/27/1952)   1952 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  In the Matter of Philip Morris & Company, Ltd., Inc. 49 F.T.C. 703, F.T.C, Docket Number 4794 (12/29/1952)   1952 Administrative Decisions & Guidance   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  International Broth. Of Elec. Workers, Local No. 35 V. Commission on Civil Rights Not Reported in A.2d, Superior Court of Connecticut, Docket Number 90351, 90352 (7/14/1952) The Superior Court, in reviewing an order of the commission on civil rights, cannot substitute its own conclusion for that of the commission. The court determines whether the commission acted arbitrarily, unreasonably, or contrary to law. If competent evidence before the commission is susceptible of an interpretation which accords with its... 1952 Cases    
  International Broth. Of Elec. Workers, Local No. 35 V. Commission on Civil Rights Not Reported in A.2d, Superior Court of Connecticut, Docket Number 90351, 90352 (7/14/1952) The Superior Court, in reviewing an order of the commission on civil rights, cannot substitute its own conclusion for that of the commission. The court determines whether the commission... 1952 Trial Court Orders    
  Jandel Furs 100 NLRB No. 234, N.L.R.B, Docket Number Cases Nos. 5-CA-363 and 5-CB-59 (10/9/1952)   1952 Administrative Decisions & Guidance    
  Johnson V. State 213 Miss. 808, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 38402 (4/7/1952) Defendant was convicted, in the Circuit Court, quitman County, E. H. Green, J., of rape, and he appealed. The Supreme Court, Roberds, P. J., held that the verdict was against the great weight of the evidence. Reversed and remanded. 1952 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Kirsch Holding Co. V. Borough of Manasquan 24 N.J.Super. 91, Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division, Docket Number A-501 (12/12/1952) Action for declaratory judgment that ordinance of defendant borough requiring users of beach front and waters adjacent thereto to secure badges and pay certain charges was void. The Superior Court, Chancery Division, 18 N.J.Super. 112, 86 A.2d 710, held that ordinance was valid and entered judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs appealed. The... 1952 Cases    
  Labor Union as a Governmental Agent 5 Stanford Law Review 135 (December, 1952) Constitutional LawDue ProcessStatutory Bargaining Representative Is Governmental Agent and Subject to Constitutional Limitations on Government. The Railway Labor Act gives bargaining power to the union chosen by the craft as its representative. An all-white union was chosen by the brake-man craft. It entered a bargaining agreement with an... 1952 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Local No. 181, Hotel & Restaurant Emp. Union V. Broadway & Fourth Ave. Realty Co. 248 S.W.2d 713, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (5/2/1952) Actions by Broadway & Fourth Avenue Realty Company and by Brown Hotel Company against Local No. 181, Hotel & Restaurant Employees Union, and others, to enjoin defendants from picketing. The Jefferson Circuit Court, Chancery Branch, First Division, W. Scott Miller, J., rendered judgments in contempt proceedings for alleged violations of injunctions... 1952 Cases    
  Miles V. State 36 Ala.App. 640, Court of Appeals of Alabama, Docket Number 4 DIV 227 (12/10/1952) Petition for habeas corpus to fix bail. The Circuit Court, Bullock County, J. S. Williams, J., entered judgment denying bail, and petitioner appealed. The Court of Appeals, Carr, P. J., held that where it was admitted that petitioner killed man by shooting him with rifle as man was advancing on petitioner, but it was disputed as to whether man,... 1952 Cases    
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