Franchise Fee Calculations of Fort Sumter Tours, Inc: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, July 1, 1999, Washington, DC. |
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Page 69 - Chairman, this concludes my prepared testimony. I will be happy to answer any questions you or members of your subcommittee may have.
Page 293 - The obligation of a contract is "the law which binds the parties to perform their agreement." Sturges v. Crowninshield, 4 Wheat. 122, 197; Story, op. cit., § 1378. This Court has said that "the laws which subsist at the time and place of the making of a contract, and where it is to be performed, enter into and form a part of it, as if they were expressly referred to or incorporated in its terms. This principle embraces alike those which affect its validity, construction, discharge and enforcement.
Page 297 - We find that the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding that such circumstances did not exist in the instant case.
Page 297 - The issue was whether these experts' opinions were sufficiently supported by the animal studies on which they purported to rely. The studies were so dissimilar to the facts presented in this litigation that it was not an abuse of discretion for the District Court to have rejected the experts
Page 14 - Honorable Slade Gorton Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations United States Senate...
Page 53 - D&B provides its clients, which states: This report . . . contains information compiled from sources which Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. does not control and whose information, unless otherwise indicated in this report, has not been verified . . . Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. . . . does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the information provided. I have addressed this at length for a reason.
Page 41 - Franchise fees, however stated, shall be determined upon consideration of the probable value to the concessioner of the privileges granted by the particular contract or permit involved. Such value is the opportunity for net profit in relation to both gross receipts and capital invested.
Page 97 - The courts may not accept appellate counsel's post hoc rationalizations for agency action ; Chenery requires that 156 Opinion of the Court. an agency's discretionary order be upheld, if at all, on the same basis articulated in the order by the agency itself...
Page 157 - The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) is the statistical classification standard underlying all establishment-based Federal economic statistics classified by industry. The SIC is used to promote the comparability of establishment data describing various facets of the US economy. The classification covers the entire field of economic activities and defines industries in accordance with the composition and structure of the economy.
Page 21 - October 9, 1965, provides that franchise fees shall be determined upon consideration of the probable value to the concessioner of the privileges granted...