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Calhoun Vs. Massie
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- May 17, 1920
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U.S. 170 (1920) U.S. Supreme Court Calhoun v. MassieSearch
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U.S. 170 (1920) Calhoun v. MassieSearch
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extortion or improvident bargains and in part to protect the treasury from frauds and imposition. See United States v. VanSearch
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the opportunity Page 253 U. S. 174 of securing such services if contingent fees were prohibited, Taylor v. BemissSearch
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legislation, although resembling in its nature the exercise of the police power, has long been settled. Marshall v. BaltimoreSearch
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United Page 253 U. S. 175 States v. HallSearch
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of the Revised Statutes. Nutt v. KnutSearch
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the government is valid also as to contracts which had been entered into before its passage was expressly held in Ball v. HalsellSearch
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Hipolite Egg Co. v. UnitedSearch
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Hoke v. UnitedSearch
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Hamilton v. KentuckySearch
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the government is not less because the property affected happens to be a contract. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. v. MottleySearch
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Union Dry Goods Co. v. GeorgiaSearch
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Public Service Corporation, 248 U. S. 372 . Here, unlike New York Central v. GraySearch
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if it concluded to grant relief, Congress was free to do so upon such conditions as it deemed proper. Compare Ball v. HalsellSearch
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Kendall v. UnitedSearch
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Calhoun cannot take under the act and repudiate its provisions. Compare Shepard v. BarronSearch
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Grand Rapids & Indiana Ry. Co. v. OsbornSearch
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Interstate Railway Co. v. MassachusettsSearch
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according to the terms of the act. Any reservation which he may have made in words was futile. Capital Trust Co. v. CalhounSearch
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latter's claim against the United States Page 253 U. S. 178 for property taken during the Civil War ( Taylor v. BemissSearch
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from the United States, but from other assets of the estate, a situation is presented which it was said in Nutt v. KnutSearch
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the definite statement concerning the true meaning of this section made twelve months ago in Capital Trust Co. v. CalhounSearch
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both by lawyers and courts. The result is necessarily injurious both to the court and the public. In United States v. DelawareSearch
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performed, and renders criminal the acceptance by him of more than an arbitrarily specified amount. Marshall v. BaltimoreSearch
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Ohio R. Co., 16 How. 314, 57 U. S. 316 , United States v. HallSearch
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U. S. 343 , 98 U. S. 354 -355, and Ball v. HalsellSearch
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U. S. 84 , are referred to as authority for such oppressive legislation. They give it no support. Marshall v. BaltimoreSearch
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in case the law should pass. The case appears unimportant in connection with this controversy. In United States v. HallSearch
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but he is not. In Ball v. HalsellSearch
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is wholly unlike the one now before us. Mr. Justice Gray took pains to explain the difference between it and Davis v. CommonwealthSearch
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claim provided that no part of such sum should be paid by the state to any attorney under previous contract. Davis v. CommonwealthSearch
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and the language by Mr. Justice Gray in Ball v. HalsellSearch
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set at twenty percent, any payment may Page 253 U. S. 182 be proscribed. We should follow Capital Trust Co. v. CalhounSearch
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law, and this inhibition protects every man in his right to engage in honest and useful work for compensation. Adair v. UnitedSearch
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U.S. Supreme Court Calhoun v. MassieSearch
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See United States v. VanSearch
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Taylor v. BemissSearch
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Marshall v. BaltimoreSearch
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States v. HallSearch
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Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. v. MottleySearch
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New York Central v. GraySearch
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Compare Ball v. HalsellSearch
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Compare Shepard v. BarronSearch
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In United States v. DelawareSearch
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United States v. HallSearch
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