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Gaston County Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... on educational disparities, or one based on literacy rates, would be administratively cumbersome: the designation of racially disparate school systems is not susceptible of speedy, objective, and incontrovertible determination, and the bureau of the census collects no accurate county statistics on literacy. ..... 285 appeal from the united states district court for the district of columbia syllabus the voting rights act of 1965 suspends the use of any test or device as a prerequisite to registering to vote, in any state or political subdivision which, on november 1, 1964, maintained a test or device and in which less than 50% of the voting-age ..... in view of this obvious relationship, and acknowledgment of it by the attorney general and congress, it is of no consequence that the act was explicitly designed to enforce the fifteenth, and not the fourteenth, amendment. ..... appellant brought suit to reinstate the test, asserting in accord with 4(a) of the act "that no such test or device has been used during the five years preceding the filing of the action for the purpose or with the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on ..... 293 we conclude that, in an action brought under 4(a) of the voting rights act of 1965, it is appropriate for a court to consider whether a literacy or educational requirement has the "effect ..... 289 i the legislative history of the voting rights act of 1965 discloses that congress was fully cognizant of the potential effect of unequal educational opportunities .....

Arlington Central School Dist. Bd. of Ed. Vs. Murphy

Court : US Supreme Court

..... of little significance here is a provision in the handicapped children s protection act of 1986 requiring the general accounting office to collect data on awards to prevailing parties in idea cases, but making no mention of consultants or experts ..... for example, the gao was instructed to compile statistics on the hours spent by all attorneys involved in an idea action or proceeding, even though the act did not provide for the recovery of attorney s fees by a prevailing state or ..... just because congress directed the gao to compile statistics on the hours spent by consultants in idea cases, it does not follow that congress meant for states to compensate prevailing parties for the fees billed ..... that their interpretation of 1415(i)(3)(b) is supported by a provision of the handicapped children s protection act of 1986 that required the general accounting office (gao) to collect certain data, 4(b)(3), 100 stat. ..... argued april 19, 2006 decided june 26, 2006 after respondents prevailed in their individuals with disabilities education act (idea) action to require petitioner school board to pay for their son s private school tuition, they sought fees for services rendered by an educational consultant during the proceedings, relying on an idea provision that permits ..... 1981), a clear notice requirement, and deems it applicable in this case because congress enacted the individuals with disabilities education act (idea), as it did the legislation at issue in pennhurst , pursuant to the spending clause. .....

The Kannan Devan Hills Produce Vs. the State of Kerala and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1972SC2301; 1972(0)KLT377(SC); (1972)2SCC218; [1973]1SCR356

..... tea waste dealers and persons engaged inthe business of blending tea;(j) improving the marketing of tea in india and elsewhere;(k) collecting statistics from growers, manufacturers, dealers and such other persons as may be prescribed on any matter relating to the tea industry; the publication of statistics so collected or portions thereof or extracts therefrom;(l) securing better working conditions and the provisions and improvement of amenities and incentives for workers ..... while not denying that the regulation of hours of work was ordinarily a matter of 'property and civil rights in the province' under head 13 of section 92 of the british north america act, 1867, and accordingly within the legislative competence of the provincial legislature, contended, interalia, that the company's activities had become such an extensive and important element in the national economy of canada that ..... coming now to the question of repugnancy : the object of the tea act, 1953, is to provide for the control by the union of the tea industry, including the control, in pursuance of the international agreement now in force, of the cultivation ..... the dominion parliament was entitled under the general powers conferred by the first part of section 91 of the act of 1867 to regulate all the affairs of the company, even where that involved legislating in relation to matters exclusively reserved to the provincial legislatures by section 92. 38. ..... act of 1953 .....

Labor Board Vs. Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, Inc.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the case has become moot by reason of the fact that, since the board made its order, it has certified the brotherhood of railroad trainmen as representative of the motorbus drivers of the pennsylvania company for purposes of collective bargaining, and that, in a pending proceeding under 9(c) for the certification of a representative of the other pittsburgh employees, to which the employees' association is not a party, the pennsylvania company and local division no. ..... " whether the continued recognition of the employees association by respondents would, in itself, be a continuing obstacle to the exercise of the employees' right of sell organization and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing is an inference of fact to be drawn by the board from the evidence reviewed in its subsidiary findings. ..... on labor on this feature of the act, after pointing out that collective bargaining is "a sham when the employer sits on both sides of the table by supporting a particular organization with which he deals," declared: "the orders will, of course, be adopted to the need of the individual case; they may include such matters as refraining from collective bargaining with a minority group, recognition of the agency chosen by the majority for the purposes of collective bargaining, posting of appropriate bulletins, refraining ..... department of labor, bureau of labor statistics, characteristics of company unions, bulletin no. .....

H.J. Heinz Co. Vs. Labor Board

Court : US Supreme Court

..... whether the board could validly find that petitioner's refusal to join with representatives of the labor organization authorized to represent its employees in collective bargaining in signing a written contract embodying the terms of their agreement concerning wages, hours, and working conditions constituted a refusal to bargain collectively in violation of 8(5) of the act, and whether the board exceeded its authority in ordering petitioner to join in signing the agreement. ..... it found in detail that petitioner, through superintendent, foremen, and other supervising employees, had interfered with, restrained, and coerced its employees in the exercise of their rights to organize in violation of 7, 8(1) of the act; that it had dominated and interfered with the formation of the association, and contributed to its support within the meaning of 8(2), and that it had refused to sign an agreement with the union. ..... it is true that the national labor relations act, while requiring the employer to bargain collectively, does not compel him to enter into an agreement. ..... we think that congress, in thus incorporating in the new legislation the collective bargaining requirement of the earlier statutes, included as a part of it the signed agreement long recognized under the earlier acts as the final step in the bargaining process. ..... of labor, bureau of labor statistics, five years of collective bargaining, pp. .....

Oregon Vs. Mitchell

Court : US Supreme Court

..... of literacy tests (and similar voting eligibility requirements) for a five-year period in state and federal elections in any area where such tests are not already proscribed by the voting rights act of 1965, and (3) forbid states from disqualifying voters in presidential and vice-presidential elections for failure to meet state residency requirements and provide uniform national rules for absentee voting in such elections. ..... meanwhile, was informing congress that, "if this amendment prevails, you must legislate to carry out many parts of it," globe 2544, and was looking forward to "further legislation; in enabling acts or other provisions," globe 3148, while even the joint committee submitted the amendment to the nation "in the hope that its imperfections may be cured, and its deficiencies supplied, by legislative ..... reading of the section in view of the background against which it was proposed and adopted, particularly the doubts about the constitutionality of the civil rights act, the prejudice in the north against any recognition of the principle of negro suffrage, and the basic constitutional structure of leaving suffrage qualifications with the states ..... for a full collection of the relevant materials, see note, legislative history of title iii of the voting rights act of 1970, ..... to the nation as a whole, congress had before it statistics which demonstrate that voter registration and voter participation are consistently greater ..... 461 (1953), and they were not even referred to in the .....

Fomento Resorts and Hotels Ltd. and anr. Vs. Minguel Martins and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 2009(57)BLJR711; 2009(4)BomCR348; JT2009(1)SC470; 2009(1)SCALE758; (2009)3SCC571; 2009(1)LC411(SC)

..... board may, and shall if required by the government so to do--(a) direct the preparation of development plans by the planning and development authorities;(b) undertake, assist and encourage the collection, maintenance and publication of statistics, bulletins and monographs on planning and its methodology;(c) co-ordinate and advise on the planning and implementation of physical development programmes within the union territory;(d) prepare and furnish reports ..... following purpose, namely -tourism development project - construction of hotel at curla, vainguinim, taleigao.and whereas the government being satisfied by an enquiry held under section 40 of the said act that the proposed acquisition is needed for the aforesaid purpose and the said work is likely to prove useful to the public, has consented to acquire on behalf of the company the ..... land for a company is conditioned by the restrictions in sections 40 and 41 indicates that the legislature intended that land should be acquired through the coercive machinery of the act only for the restricted purpose mentioned in sections 40 and 41, which would also be a public purpose for the purpose of section 4....let us therefore turn to the words ..... and safeguarding forests and wild life and article 48a was inserted in part iv of the constitution by the constitution (forty-second amendment) act, 1976 whereby a duty was imposed on the state to endeavour to protect and improve the environment and safeguard forests and wild life of the country .....

Coir Board, Ernakulam, CochIn and anr. Vs. Indira Devi P.S. and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 1998IIAD(SC)470; AIR1998SC2801; JT1998(2)SC332; 1998(1)KLT755(SC); 1998(2)SCALE195; (1998)3SCC259; [1998]2SCR87; 1998(1)LC805(SC)

..... be prescribed; (c) undertaking, assisting or encouraging scientific, technological and economic research and maintaining and assisting in the maintenance of one or more research institutes; (d) collecting statistics from manufacturers of and dealers in, coir products and from such other persons as may be prescribed, on any matter relating to the coir industry; the publication of statistics so collected or portions thereof or extracts therefrom; (e) fixing grade standards and arranging when necessary for inspection of coir fibre, coir yarn and coir products ..... an apprentice) employed in any industry to do any manual, unskilled, skilled, technical, operational, clerical or supervisory work for hire or reward, whether the terms of employment be express or implied; and for the purposes of any proceeding under this act in relation to an industrial dispute, includes any such person who has been dismissed, discharged, or retrenched in connection with, or as a consequence of, that dispute, or whose dismissal, discharge or retrenchment has led to that dispute, but does not include ..... section 10 of the coir industry act, 1953 lays down the functions of the board:-section 10:'functions of the board:- (1) it shall be the duty of the board to promote by such measures as it thinks fit the development under the control of the central government of the coir ..... the appellant-coir board, emakulam, cochin, has been set up under the coir industry act, 1953. .....

Bus Employees Vs. WisconsIn Board

Court : US Supreme Court

..... in the supply of an essential public utility service to the citizens of this state and to that end to encourage the making and maintaining of agreements concerning wages, hours and other conditions of employment through collective bargaining between public utility employers and their employees, and to provide settlement procedures for labor disputes between public utility employers and their employees in cases where the ..... creating a nation-wide emergency, the provisions of the taft-hartley act indicate that the principle of collective bargaining may, to some extent, be subordinated to the interest of ..... justice brandeis: "because i have come to the conclusion that both the common law of a state and a statute of the united states [the clayton act] declare the right of industrial combatants to push their struggle to the limits of the justification of self-interest, i do not wish to be understood as attaching any constitutional ..... the "findings and policies" of the national labor relations act provides, inter alia: "it is hereby declared to be the policy of the united states to eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to mitigate and eliminate these obstructions when they have occurred by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of ..... of labor, bureau of labor statistics, federal fact-finding boards and .....

Railway Employees' Dept. Vs. Hanson

Court : US Supreme Court

..... as to an employee in any of said services on a particular carrier at the effective date of any such agreement on a carrier, who is not a member of any one of the labor organizations, national in scope, organized in accordance with this act and admitting to membership employees of a craft or class in any of said services, such employee, as a condition of continuing his employment, may be required to become a member of the organization representing the craft in which he is employed on the ..... jurisdictional scope of the first division of the national railroad adjustment board, if said employee shall hold or acquire membership in any one of the labor organizations, national in scope, organized in accordance with this act and admitting to membership employees of a craft or class in any of said services; and no agreement made pursuant to subparagraph (b) shall provide for deductions from his wages for periodic dues, initiation fees, ..... the supreme court of nebraska syllabus claiming that a "union shop" agreement between an interstate railroad and unions of its employees made pursuant to 2, eleventh, of the railway labor act, which expressly authorizes such agreements notwithstanding any state law, violated the first and fifth amendments of the federal constitution and the "right to work" provision of the nebraska constitution, ..... statistics made an analysis of 1,716 collective bargaining agreements in effect in industries not regulated by the railway labor act ..... private groups (1953), 13 la.l. .....