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..... literacy tests and similar voting requirements for registering to vote); city of rome v. united states, 446 u. s. 156 , 161 (1980) (upholding 7-year extension of the voting rights act s requirement that certain jurisdictions preclear any change to a standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting ); see also james everard s ..... courts.[ footnote 8 ] cf. ibid.; florida prepaid, 527 u. s., at 641 (observing that senate report on patent and plant variety protection remedy clarification act (patent remedy act) contains no evidence that unremedied patent infringement by states had become a problem of national import ). to the contrary, the senate report on the ada observed that ..... involving the same statute). see also city of rome v. united states , 446 u. s. 156 , 173 178 (1980) (upholding as valid legislation under 2 of the fifteenth amendment the most sweeping provisions of the voting rights act of 1965); jones v. alfred h. mayer co., 392 u. s. 409 , 439 441 (1968) (upholding a .....
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..... december 6, 1989 decided march 20, 1990 494 u.s. 558 certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the fourth circuit syllabus mclean trucking company and petitioner chauffeurs, teamsters and helpers local no. 391 (union) were parties to a collective bargaining agreement which covered respondent employees. when the union declined to ..... done in this case. cf. aba model rules of professional conduct 1.7(b) (1984); aba model code of professional responsibility dr 5-l05(c) (1980). the relief available in a duty of fair representation action also makes the trust action the better model. to remedy a breach of the duty of fair representation ..... ' behalf, respondents filed suit in the district court. alleging that mclean had breached the collective bargaining agreement in violation of 301 of the labor management relations act, 1947, and that the union had violated its duty of fair representation, they requested injunctive relief and, inter alia, compensatory damages for lost wages and health .....
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..... deriving from laws that are specifically directed to "smoking and health," or that are uniquely crafted to address the relationship between cigarette companies and their putative victims, fall within 5(b) of the act, as amended. given that new jersey's tort-law "duty not to deceive," ante, at 529, is a general one, ..... powers are not invoked, or important constitutional protections eliminated, or seemingly inequitable doctrines applied. see, e. g., united states v. mitchell, 445 u. s. 535 , 538 (1980) (waivers of federal sovereign immunity must be "unequivocally expressed"); will v. michigan dept. of state police, 491 u. s. 58 , 65 (1989) (clear statement required to ..... j. 69, 90, 577 a. 2d 1239, 1249 (1990); garner, cigarette dependency and civil liability: a modest proposal, 53 s. cal. l. rev. 1423, 1454 (1980). moreover, tort law has an entirely separate function-compensating victims-that sets it apart from direct forms of regulation. see ferebee v. chevron chemical co., 237 u. s. app .....
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