United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 431United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1976 - Courts |
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... question whether that impairment violated the Contract Clause . IV Although the Contract Clause appears literally to proscribe " any " impairment , this Court observed in Blaisdell that " the prohibition is not an absolute one and is ...
... question whether that impairment violated the Contract Clause . IV Although the Contract Clause appears literally to proscribe " any " impairment , this Court observed in Blaisdell that " the prohibition is not an absolute one and is ...
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... question that appellant prefers the retention to the removal of the covenant , but surely this alone cannot be an acceptable basis for the Court's wooden application of the Contract Clause or for its con- clusion that the repeal ...
... question that appellant prefers the retention to the removal of the covenant , but surely this alone cannot be an acceptable basis for the Court's wooden application of the Contract Clause or for its con- clusion that the repeal ...
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... questions that under then - applicable procedures were put by the trial judge to those entering guilty pleas , respondent acknowl- edged that he understood that he could be imprisoned for a minimum of 10 years to a maximum of life and ...
... questions that under then - applicable procedures were put by the trial judge to those entering guilty pleas , respondent acknowl- edged that he understood that he could be imprisoned for a minimum of 10 years to a maximum of life and ...
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... was made of either defense counsel or prosecutor . Two questions from the form are of particular relevance to the issues before us : Question No. 8- " Do you Opinion of the Court 431 U.S. understand that upon your BLACKLEDGE v . ALLISON 65.
... was made of either defense counsel or prosecutor . Two questions from the form are of particular relevance to the issues before us : Question No. 8- " Do you Opinion of the Court 431 U.S. understand that upon your BLACKLEDGE v . ALLISON 65.
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... Question No. 11- " Has the Solicitor , or your lawyer , or any policeman , law officer or anyone else made any ... questions asked by the Presiding Judge : " 1. Are you able to hear and understand my statements and questions ? Answer ...
... Question No. 11- " Has the Solicitor , or your lawyer , or any policeman , law officer or anyone else made any ... questions asked by the Presiding Judge : " 1. Are you able to hear and understand my statements and questions ? Answer ...
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Page 317 - It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer— (1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin...
Page 686 - That any person who shall be injured in his business or property by reason of anything forbidden in the antitrust laws may sue therefor in any district court of the United States in the district in which the defendant resides or is found or has an agent, without respect to the amount in controversy, and shall recover threefold the damages by him sustained, and the cost of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee.
Page 731 - The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be: (a) whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Page 229 - If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.
Page 460 - Act to any otherwise eligible individual for refusing to accept new work under any of the following conditions : (a) If the position offered is vacant due directly to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute; (b) If the wages, hours, or other conditions of the work offered are substantially less favorable to the individual than those prevailing for similar work in the locality ; (c) If as a condition of being employed the individual would be required to join a company union or to resign from or...
Page 290 - American courts adopted this standard but later decisions have rejected it and substituted this test: whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole...
Page 350 - ... compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; or (2) to limit, segregate, or classify his employees in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Page 131 - ACTIONS (a) Prerequisites to a Class Action. One or more members of a class may sue or be sued as representative parties on behalf of all only if (1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable, (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.
Page 268 - It is the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 296 - I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.