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Porter V. Johnson |
232 Mo.App. 1150, Kansas City Court of Appeals, Missouri, Docket Number 19076 (3/7/1938) |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jackson County; Ben Terte, Judge. Action by Jesse L. Porter and others against Carl R. Johnson and another to enjoin possession of realty in violation of restrictions. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiffs appeal. Reversed and remanded, with directions. |
1938 |
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Richardson V. State |
28 Ala.App. 432, Court of Appeals of Alabama, Docket Number 6 DIV 248 (6/30/1938) |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Tuscaloosa County; Henry B. Foster, Judge. Charlie Richardson was convicted of assault with intent to rob, and he appeals. Reversed and remanded. Certiorari granted by Supreme Court in Richardson v. State (6 Div. 399) 186 So. 580. |
1938 |
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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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Rights of Pueblos and Members of Pueblo Tribes under the Taylor Grazing Act |
56 Interior Dec. 308, D.O.I (5/14/1938) |
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1938 |
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Ryan V. State |
136 Tex.Crim. 140, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 19959 (11/30/1938) |
Commissioners' Decision. Appeal from District Court, San Jacinto County; W. B. Browder, Judge. Walter Ryan was convicted of theft and he appeals. Affirmed. |
1938 |
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Shaw V. Hamm |
133 Fla. 722, Supreme Court of Florida (8/1/1938) |
Proceeding by Alfred Shaw against J. W. Hamm and wife, to foreclose a municipal tax sale certificate and special improvement lien, wherein a decree of foreclosure was entered and the defendants filed a bill of review to vacate the master's deed, confirmation of sale, decree of foreclosure and decree pro confesso theretofore entered in the... |
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Skelley V. State |
64 Okla.Crim. 112, Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma, Docket Number A-9239 (3/25/1938) |
Appeal from District Court, Oklahoma County; Clarence Mills, Judge. Edna Lahoma Skelley was convicted of first degree manslaughter, and she appeals. Reversed. DOYLE, J., dissenting. |
1938 |
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This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
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State Bd. Of Undertakers, Dept. Of Public Health of Pennsylvania V. Frankenfield |
329 Pa. 440, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (3/21/1938) |
Appeals Nos. 26-31, 33, May term, 1937, from order and decree of Court of Common Pleas, Dauphin County; Frank B. Wickersham, Judge. Proceedings by the State Board of Undertakers, Department of Public Health of Pennsylvania, against Oliver K. Frankenfield; Thomas F. Kavanagh, Jr., and Raymond A. Murphy and another; Samuel B. Reed and others; and... |
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State ex Rel. Attorney General V. School Board of Quitman County |
181 Miss. 818, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B, Docket Number 33243 (5/16/1938) |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Quitman County; Wm. A. Alcorn, Judge. Mandamus by the State, on the relation of the Attorney General, to compel the County School Board of Quitman County to create a special consolidated school district. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the petition, the State appeals. Affirmed. |
1938 |
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State of Missouri ex Rel. Gaines V. Canada |
305 U.S. 337, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 57 (12/12/1938) |
On Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri. Mandamus proceeding by the State of Missouri, at the relation of Lloyd Gaines, against S.W. Canada, Registrar of the University of Missouri, and the curators of the University of Missouri, to compel the curators of the University to admit the relator to the School of Law of the... |
1938 |
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This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
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State V. Dierlamm |
189 La. 544, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 34719 (3/7/1938) |
Appeal from Fourth District Court, Parish of Ouachita; R. R. Reeves, Judge. George H. Dierlamm was convicted of having carnal knowledge of an unmarried female between the ages of 12 and 18 years with her consent, and he appeals. Affirmed. |
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State V. King |
342 Mo. 975, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2, Docket Number 35704 (5/3/1938) |
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court; Robert J. Kirkwood, Judge. Arthur King was convicted of rape, and he appeals. Affirmed. |
1938 |
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This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
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State V. Pierre |
189 La. 764, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 34742 (3/7/1938) |
Appeal from Twenty-Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. John the Baptist; L. Robert Rivarde, Judge. Hugh Pierre was convicted of murder, and he appeals. Affirmed. |
1938 |
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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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State V. Richetti |
342 Mo. 1015, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2, Docket Number 35160 (5/3/1938) |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jackson County; Ray G. Cowan, Judge. Adam Richetti was convicted of murder, and he appeals. Affirmed. |
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State V. Sims |
213 N.C. 590, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Docket Number 650 (5/25/1938) |
Appeal from Superior Court, Guilford County; W. F. Harding, Judge. Ben Sims was convicted of first-degree murder, and he appeals. No error. There was evidence tending to show that the defendant fatally shot the deceased after premeditation and deliberation. There was also evidence tending to show that the defendant fired the fatal shots in... |
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State V. Tullos |
190 La. 184, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 34813 (5/30/1938) |
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Robert J. O'Neal, Judge. E. Tullos was convicted of grand larceny, and he appeals. Affirmed. |
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State V. Walker |
189 La. 241, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 34667 (2/7/1938) |
Appeal from Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of La Salle; Cas Moss, Judge. E. V. Walker and another were convicted of cattle stealing, and they appeal. Affirmed. |
1938 |
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Statement as to Jurisdiction., Simmons V. the Bd. Of Educ. |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 643 (10/1/1938) |
MAY IT PLEASE THE HONORABLE COURT: The appellant in the above entitled cause, Willie Eva Simmons, in support of the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court to review the above entitled cause... |
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Sunseri V. Cassagne |
191 La. 209, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 34572 (10/31/1938) |
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans, Division B; Nat W. Bond, Judge. Suit by Cyril P. Sunseri against Verna Cassagne, to annul a marriage. From a judgment annulling the marriage, defendant appeals. Judgment annulled and case remanded. |
1938 |
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This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
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Howard Jay Graham |
The "Conspiracy Theory" of the Fourteenth Amendment |
47 Yale Law Journal 371 (January, 1938) |
No state shall ... deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person ... the equal protection of the laws. In an argument before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1882 Roscoe Conkling, a former member of the Joint Congressional Committee which in 1866 drafted the Fourteenth Amendment,... |
1938 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Howard Jay Graham |
The "Conspiracy Theory" of the Fourteenth Amendment: 2 |
48 Yale Law Journal 171 (December, 1938) |
In 1866, Roscoe Conkling was a member of the Joint Committee which drafted the Fourteenth Amendment. In. 1882, during the course of an argument before the Supreme Court of the United States, Conkling produced for the first time the manuscript journal of the Committee, and by means of extensive quotations and pointed comment conveyed the impression... |
1938 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Harry Shulman |
The Demise of Swift V. Tyson |
47 Yale Law Journal 1336 (June, 1938) |
If I am right the fallacy has resulted in an unconstitutional assumption of powers by the Courts of the United States which no lapse of time or respectable array of opinion should make us hesitate to correct. Then Mr. Justice Holmes, with a characteristic and cryptic argument struck at the jugular of Swift v. Tyson, and showed that water, not... |
1938 |
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U.s. V. Littlejohn |
96 F.2d 368, Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, Docket Number 6236 (4/8/1938) |
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois, Southern Division; J. Earl Major, Judge. Angus C. Littlejohn was convicted of using the United States mails to defraud, and he appeals. Affirmed. |
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United Carbon Co., Inc. |
7 NLRB 598, N.L.R.B, Docket Number Cases Nos. C-446 and R-586, respectively (6/1/1938) |
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1938 |
Administrative Decisions & Guidance |
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This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
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Watts V. U.s. |
24 F.Supp. 969, District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Hattiesburg Division, Docket Number 50 (10/26/1938) |
Suit by Hark Watts and others against the United States of America on a war risk insurance policy. A verdict for the plaintiffs was returned by the jury, and a judgment was entered thereon. On motion by the United States of America to set aside the judgment and for a judgment to be entered in accordance with its motion for a directed verdict.... |
1938 |
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This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
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Wilson V. Council of City of Highland Park |
284 Mich. 96, Supreme Court of Michigan, Docket Number 78 (4/4/1938) |
Certiorari to Circuit Court, Wayne County; Adolph F. Marschner, Judge. Proceeding by R. Stanley Wilson against the Council of the City of Highland Park, of the City of Highland Park, Wayne County, Mich., a Michigan corporation, to review proceedings removing plaintiff from office as a member of the council. To review a judgment of the Circuit Court... |
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Woods V. Washington Fidelity Nat. Ins. Co. |
113 S.W.2d 121, St. Louis Court of Appeals, Missouri, Docket Number 24395 (2/1/1938) |
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court; M. Hartmann, Judge. Not to be published in State Reports. Action by Mattie Owens Woods against the Washington Fidelity National Insurance Company to recover on life policies. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Reversed. |
1938 |
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Appellant's Reply to Appellees' Brief, Henderson Co. V. Thompson |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 397 (2/2/1937) |
Under Part 1 of their argument, beginning on page 15 of their brief, appellees say that the Texas Legislature has power to regulate the production and use of natural gas to (1) prevent... |
1937 |
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Appellees' Reply Brief, Henderson Co. V. Thompson |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 397 (1/19/1937) |
The opinion of the District Court for the Western District of Texas denying appellant an interlocutory injunction is reported in 12 Fed. Supp. 519 (R. 77). The opinion of the same court... |
1937 |
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Blum V. Ford |
194 Ark. 393, Supreme Court of Arkansas, Docket Number 4-4758 (6/28/1937) |
Appeal from Pulaski Chancery Court; Frank H. Dodge, Chancellor. Suit for injunction by A. Louis Blum against D. L. Ford, Commissioner of Revenues, wherein the Southern Club and Ohio Club intervened as plaintiffs and adopted all the pleadings and allegations of plaintiff, and wherein a temporary restraining order was granted. From a decree... |
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Brief for Appellant, Henderson Co. V. Thompson |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 397 (1/11/1937) |
The opinion of the District Court for the Western District of Texas, denying appellant an interlocutory injunction, is reported in 12 Fed. Supp. 519, under the style of The Henderson... |
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