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Time, Inc. v. Firestone - 424 U.S. 448 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Time, Inc. v. Firestone, 424 U.S. 448 (1976) Time, Inc. v. Firestone No. 74-944 Argued October 14, 1975 Decided March 2, 1976 424 U.S. 448 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA Syllabus After respondent had sought separate maintenance, her husband, the scion of a wealthy industrial family, filed a counterclaim for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty and adultery. The court granted the counterclaim, stating that "neither party is domesticated, within the meaning of that term as used by the Supreme Court of Florida," and that "the marriage should be dissolved." On the basis of newspaper and wire service reports and information from a bureau chief and a "stringer," petitioner published in its magazine an item reporting that the divorce was granted "on grounds of extreme cruelty and adultery." After petitioner had declined to retract, respondent brought this libel action in the state court. A jury verdict fo...
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American Trucking Ass'ns v. Smith - 496 U.S. 167 (1990) U.S. Supreme Court American Trucking Ass'ns v. Smith, 496 U.S. 167 (1990) American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. Smith No. 88-325 Argued March 22, 1989 Reargued Dec. 6, 1989 Decided June 4, 1990 496 U.S. 167 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS Syllabus In 1983, petitioners brought suit in an Arkansas Chancery Court, alleging that the flat tax portion of that State's Highway Use Equalization (HUE) tax discriminated against interstate commerce in violation of the Commerce Clause by imposing on out-of-state truckers greater per-mile costs than those imposed on in-state truckers, who are likely to drive many more miles on the State's highways. Petitioners sought a refund of all HUE taxes paid. In affirming the Chancery Court's ruling that the tax was constitutional, the State Supreme Court relied on this Court's decisions upholding flat taxes in Capitol Greyhound Lines v. Brice, 339 U. S. 542 , Aero Mayflower ...
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Bank of the United States v. Dandridge - 25 U.S. 64 (1827) U.S. Supreme Court Bank of the United States v. Dandridge, 25 U.S. 12 Wheat. 64 64 (1827) Bank of the United States v. Dandridge 25 U.S. (12 Wheat.) 64 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Syllabus In a suit brought by the president, directors and company of the Bank of the United States upon a bond given to the bank to secure the faithful performance of the official duties of one of its cashiers, evidence of the execution of the bond, and of its approval by the board of directors (according to the rules and regulations contained in the charter of the bank) is admissible, notwithstanding there was no record of such approval, and the plaintiff may prove the fact of such approval by the board by presumptive evidence, in the same manner as such fact might be proved in the ease of private persons, not acting as a corporation or as the agents of a corporation. Where in such a case the cashier is duly app...
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Merrill v. National Bank of Jacksonville - 173 U.S. 131 (1899) U.S. Supreme Court Merrill v. National Bank of Jacksonville, 173 U.S. 131 (1899) Merrill v. National Bank of Jacksonville Nos. 54, 55 Argued October 20-21, 1898 Decided February 20, 1899 173 U.S. 131 APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Syllabus As the controversy in this case involved the question on what basis dividends in insolvency should have been declared, and therein the enforcement of the trust in accordance with law, this Court has jurisdiction of it in equity. Less than two years having elapsed from the payment of the first dividend to the filing of this bill, and the other creditors of the bank not having been harmed by the delay, no presumption of laches is raised, nor can an estoppel properly be held to have arisen. A secured creditor of an insolvent national bank may prove and receive dividends upon the face of his claim as it stood at the time of the declaration of ins...
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Engel v. Vitale - 370 U.S. 421 (1962) U.S. Supreme Court Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962) Engel v. Vitale No. 468 Argued April 3, 1962 Decided June 25, 1962 370 U.S. 421 CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NEW YORK Syllabus Because of the prohibition of the First Amendment against the enactment of any law "respecting an establishment of religion," which is made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth Amendment, state officials may not compose an official state prayer and require that it be recited in the public schools of the State at the beginning of each school day -- even if the prayer is denominationally neutral and pupils who wish to do so may remain silent or be excused from the room while the prayer is being recited. Pp. 370 U. S. 422 -436. 10 N.Y.2d 174, 176 N.E.2d 579, reversed. Page 370 U. S. 422 MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. The respondent Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 9, New Hyde Park, New York, acting...
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Keyes v. School Dist. No. 1 - 413 U.S. 189 (1973) U.S. Supreme Court Keyes v. School Dist. No. 1, 413 U.S. 189 (1973) Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado No. 71-507 Argued October 12, 1972 Decided June 21, 1973 413 U.S. 189 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Petitioners sought desegregation of the Park Hill area schools in Denver and, upon securing an order of the District Court directing that relief, expanded their suit to secure desegregation of the remaining schools of the Denver school district, particularly those in the core city area. The District Court denied the further relief, holding that the deliberate racial segregation of the Park Hill schools did not prove a like segregation policy addressed specifically to the core city schools and requiring petitioners to prove de jure segregation for each area that they sought to have desegregated. That court nevertheless found that the segregated core city schools...
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Taylor v. Louisiana - 419 U.S. 522 (1975) U.S. Supreme Court Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522 (1975) Taylor v. Louisiana No. 73-5744 Argued October 16, 1974 Decided January 21, 1975 419 U.S. 522 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA Syllabus Appellant, a male, was convicted of a crime by a petit jury selected from a venire on which there were no women and which was selected pursuant to a system resulting from Louisiana constitutional and statutory requirements that a woman should not be selected for jury service unless she had previously filed a written declaration of her desire to be subject to jury service. The State Supreme Court affirmed, having rejected appellant's challenge to the constitutionality of the state jury selection scheme. Held: 1. Appellant had standing to make his constitutional claim, there being no rule that such a claim may be asserted only by defendants who are members of the group excluded from jury service. Peters v. Kiff, 407 U. S. 493 . ...
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Fair Assessment in Real Estate Assn. v. McNary - 454 U.S. 100 (1981) U.S. Supreme Court Fair Assessment in Real Estate Assn. v. McNary, 454 U.S. 100 (1981) Fair Assessment in Real Estate Assn. v. McNary No. 80-427 Argued October 5, 1981 Decided December 1, 1981 454 U.S. 100 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Held: The principle of comity bars taxpayers' damages actions brought in federal courts under 42 U.S.C. 1983 to redress the allegedly unconstitutional administration of a state tax system. Because the principle of comity bars federal courts from granting damages relief in such cases, it is not necessary to decide whether the Tax Injunction Act, standing alone, would bar such actions. Pp. 454 U. S. 107 -117. (a) Prior to enactment in 1937 of the Tax Injunction Act -- which prohibits district courts from enjoining, suspending, or restraining the assessment, levy, or collection of any state tax where a plain, speedy, and e...
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California Democratic Party v. Jones - 530 U.S. 567 (2000) OCTOBER TERM, 1999 Syllabus CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY ET AL. v. JONES, SECRETARY OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 99-401. Argued April 24, 2000-Decided June 26, 2000 One way that candidates for public office in California gain access to the general ballot is by winning a qualified political party's primary. In 1996, Proposition 198 changed the State's partisan primary from a closed primary, in which only a political party's members can vote on its nominees, to a blanket primary, in which each voter's ballot lists every candidate regardless of party affiliation and allows the voter to choose freely among them. The candidate of each party who wins the most votes is that party's nominee for the general election. Each of petitioner political parties prohibits nonmembers from voting in the party's primary. They filed suit against respondent state off...
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(Prayer: Writ Appeal under clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the order passed in W.P.No.20081 of 2007 dated 04.06.2012.) S. Manikumar, J. 1. In W.P.No.20081 of 2007, the second respondent has prayed for a writ of mandamus directing the appellant herein, to pay a sum of Rs.15,00,000/- as compensation for the death of the father of the petitioner, Mr.C.Krishnamurthy and a sum of Rs.7,00,000/- as compensation for the death of the mother of the petitioner, Mrs.K.Chitra. 2. Challenge in this writ appeal is to an order dated 04.06.2012 made in W.P.No.20081 of 2007, by which, the writ court, directed the appellant to pay a sum of Rs.29.26 Lakhs (Rs.22 lakhs compensation and Rs.7.26 lakhs towards interest), to the second respondent, for the death of his parents, who met with a fatal accident on 12.10.2005. 3. Facts leading to the appeal are that the second respondent/petitioner, a minor, aged about 14 years, lost his parents on 12.10.2005, due to sudden fall of a tree on the Maruti Car, ...
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