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Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan - 293 U.S. 388 (1935) U.S. Supreme Court Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan, 293 U.S. 388 (1935) Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan Nos. 135 and 260 Argued December 10, 11, 1934 Decided January 7, 1935 293 U.S. 388 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. Upon review of a decree affirming the validity of an executive regulation, and refusing to enjoin its enforcement, rendered in a suit begun and ended below after the regulation had been withdrawn, the question of validity does not cease to be moot because the regulation has since been reinstated and the Government has declared its intention to enforce it from the time of reinstatement. P. 293 U. S. 412 . 2. A suit to enjoin the enforcement of executive regulations is not made moot by amendments of the regulations, adopted pending the litigation, which continue in force the requirements complained of and present the same constitutional question as before. P. 293 U. S. 41...
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Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins - 304 U.S. 64 (1938) U.S. Supreme Court Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins No. 367 Argued January 31, 1938 Decided April 25, 1938 304 U.S. 64 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. The liability of a railroad company for injury caused by negligent operation of its train to a pedestrian on a much-used, beaten path on its right-of-way along and near the rails depends, in the absence of a federal or state statute, upon the unwritten law of the State where the accident occurred. Pp. 304 U. S. 71 et seq. 2. A federal court exercising jurisdiction over such a case on the ground of diversity of citizenship, is not free to treat this question as one of so-called "general law," but must apply the state law as declared by the highest state court. Swift v. Tyson, 16 Pet. 1, overruled. Id. 3. There is no federal general common law. Congress has no power to declare su...
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General Talking Pictures Corp. v. Western Elec. Co. - 304 U.S. 175 (1938) U.S. Supreme Court General Talking Pictures Corp. v. Western Elec. Co., 304 U.S. 175 (1938) General Talking Pictures Corp. v. Western Electric Co. No. 357 Argued December 13, 14, 1937 Decided May 2, 1938 304 U.S. 175 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. Review by certiorari is confined to questions specifically brought forward by the petition for the writ. P. 304 U. S. 177 . The supporting brief is not a part of the petition for this purpose; specifications of error in that brief do not expand or add to the questions stated in the petition; they serve merely to identify and challenge rulings upon which is grounded ultimate decision of the matter involved. P. 304 U. S. 178 . 2. A writ of certiorari will not be granted in a patent case to bring up questions of acquiescence and estoppel dependent on questions of fact, as to which there were concurrent findin...
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Coleman v. Miller - 307 U.S. 433 (1939) U.S. Supreme Court Coleman v. Miller, 307 U.S. 433 (1939) Coleman v. Miller No. 7 Argued October 10, 1938 Reargued April 17, 18, 1939 Decided June 5, 1939 307 U.S. 433 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF KANSAS Syllabus 1. Upon submission of a resolution for ratification of a proposed amendment to the Federal Constitution, known as the Child Labor Amendment, twenty of the forty senators of the State of Kansas voted in favor of its adoption and twenty voted against it. The Lieutenant Governor, the presiding officer of the Senate, then cast his vote in favor of the resolution, and later it was adopted by the other house of the legislature on a vote of a majority of its members. The twenty senators who had voted against ratification, challenging the right of the Lieutenant Governor to cast the deciding vote in the Senate, and alleging that the proposed amendment had lost its vitality because of previous rejection by Kansas and other State...
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Ethyl Gasoline Corp. v. United States - 309 U.S. 436 (1940) U.S. Supreme Court Ethyl Gasoline Corp. v. United States, 309 U.S. 436 (1940) Ethyl Gasoline Corporation v. United States No. 536 Argued March 1, 4, 1940 Decided March 25, 1940 309 U.S. 436 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Syllabus A corporation owning a patent for a poisonous fluid compound containing lead, which, when mixed with the gasoline used as fuel in high compression internal combustion engines, adds greatly to their efficiency, and owning also a patent claiming the fuel mixture and another claiming a method of using it, manufactured the fluid and sold it, without royalty, under a licensing system, to nearly all of the leading manufacturers of gasoline in the country, one of which owned half of the patentee's capital stock. These refiners mixed the fluid with their gasoline and sold the resulting patented fluid in great quantities to jobbers, who in ...
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Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader - 310 U.S. 469 (1940) U.S. Supreme Court Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader, 310 U.S. 469 (1940) Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader No. 638 Argued April 1, 2,1940 Decided May 27, 1940 * 310 U.S. 469 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT Syllabus Members of a labor union, bent on unionizing a hosiery factory in which but a few of them were employed, forcibly, and in violation of civil and criminal laws of the State, took possession of the plant and held it during a protracted "sit-down" strike, during which much of the machinery was willfully injured or destroyed and during which the business, largely interstate, was entirely suspended. When the plant was seized, there were on hand 130,000 dozen pairs of finished hose, of a value of $800,000, ready for shipment on unfilled orders, mostly destined to points outside of the State. Shipment was prevented by the strikers, who repeatedly refused requests made by the owner for permission to P...
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Wood v. Lovett - 313 U.S. 362 (1941) U.S. Supreme Court Wood v. Lovett, 313 U.S. 362 (1941) Wood v. Lovett No. 709 Submitted April 2, 1941 Decided May 26, 1941 313 U.S. 362 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS Syllabus Where a State has sold land under a tax title which is valid with the help of a statute curing irregularities in the tax proceeding, but invalid without it, a repeal of the curative statute impairs the obligation of the contract between the State and it vendee, in violation of the contract clause of the Federal Constitution. P. 313 U. S. 371 . 201 Ark. 129; 143 S.W.2d 880, reversed. Appeal from a decree affirming a decree quieting title in Lovett, relying on a deed from a former owner, against Wood et al., relying on a tax title. Page 313 U. S. 364 MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court. This appeal presents the question whether an Arkansas Act of March 17, 1937, as construed and applied, violates Article I, 10, of the Constituti...
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Toucey v. New York Life Insurance Co. - 314 U.S. 118 (1941) U.S. Supreme Court Toucey v. New York Life Insurance Co., 314 U.S. 118 (1942) Toucey v. New York Life Insurance Co. No. 16 Reargued October 17, 1941 Decided November 17, 1941 * 314 U.S. 118 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Section 265 of the Judicial Code forbids a federal court to enjoin a proceeding in personam in a state court on the ground that the claim in controversy has been previously adjudicated by the federal court. P. 314 U. S. 129 . 112 F.2d 927 and 115 F.2d 1 reversed. No. 16 came here on certiorari, 311 U.S. 643, to review the affirmance of a decree of injunction, 112 F.2d 927. The decision below was affirmed here by an equally divided Court, 313 U.S. 538; subsequently, a rehearing was granted, 313 U. S. 59 . No.19 is here on certiorari, 312 U.S. 670, to review the affirmance of a decree of injunction, 115 F.2d 1. Page 314 U. S. 126 MR. JUSTICE FRA...
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United States v. Pink - 315 U.S. 203 (1942) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Pink, 315 U.S. 203 (1942) United States v. Pink No. 42 Argued December 15, 1941 Decided February 2, 1942 315 U.S. 203 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK Syllabus 1. The question of the propriety, under New York practice, of grounding a motion for summary judgment in this case on the record in Moscow Fire Ins. Co. v. Bank of New York & Trust Co., 280 N.Y. 286, is one of state law, upon which the decision of the highest court of the State is final. P. 315 U. S. 216 . 2. The Moscow case is not res judicata here, since the respondent was not a party to that suit. P. 315 U. S. 216 . 3. The affirmance here by an equally divided court of the judgment in the Moscow case, 309 U.S. 624, although conclusive and binding upon the parties to that controversy, cannot be regarded as an authoritative determination of the principles of law there involved. P. 315 U. S. 216 . 4. Judicial no...
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Ex Parte Quirin - 317 U.S. 1 (1942) U.S. Supreme Court Ex Parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942) Ex Parte Quirin{|317 U.S. 1fn1|1} Nos. ___, Original MOTIONS FOR LEAVE TO FILE PETITIONS FOR WRITS OF HABEAS CORPUS and United States ex rel. Quirin v. Cox{|317 U.S. 1fn2|2} Nos. 1-7 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Argued July 29-30, 1942 Decided July 31, 1942 Per Curiam decision filed, July 31, 1942{|317 U.S. 1fn3|3} Full Opinion filed, October 29, 1942{|317 U.S. 1fn4|4} 317 U.S. 1 Syllabus 1. A federal court may refuse to issue a writ of habeas corpus where the facts alleged in the petition, if proved, would not warrant discharge of the prisoner. P. 317 U. S. 24 . Page 317 U. S. 2 2. Presentation to the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia of a petition for habeas corpus was the institution of a suit, and denial by that court of leave to file the petition was a judicial determination of a case or con...
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