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Hutcheson Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... that testimony had disclosed that, in june, 1956, the petitioner, blaier, and chapman had together bought, in their individual capacities, certain real property in lake county for $20,000, and had shortly thereafter sold it at a profit of $78,000, to the state of indiana for highway construction purposes, pursuant to an agreement whereby a deputy in the indiana right-of-way department was paid one-fifth of ..... : "if they [the house of congress] are proceeding in a matter beyond their legitimate cognizance, we are of opinion that this can be shown, and we cannot give our assent to the principle that, by the mere act of asserting a person to be guilty of a contempt, they thereby establish their right to fine and imprison him, beyond the power of any court or any other tribunal whatever to inquire into the grounds on which the order ..... footnote 2/1 ] but this hardly converts the committee's page 369 u. ..... section 2(b) of the act declares it to be a finding of congress, "from recent investigations in the labor and management fields, that there have been a number of instances of breach of trust, corruption, disregard of the rights of individual employees, and other failures to ..... legislative power continues perpetual, the legislative body ceases to exist on the moment of its adjournment or periodical dissolution. ..... upon which the petitioner relies as evidencing a committee departure from these legitimate congressional concerns fall far short of sustaining what is sought to be made of them. .....

Engel Vs. Vitale

Court : US Supreme Court

..... [ footnote 16 ] the founders knew that, only a few years after the book of common prayer became the only accepted form of religious services in the established church of england, an act of uniformity was passed to compel all englishmen to attend those services and to make it a criminal offense to conduct or attend religious gatherings of any other kind [ footnote 17 ] -- ..... [ footnote 3/4 ] one of the stanzas of "the star-spangled banner " made our national anthem by act of congress in 1931, [ footnote 3/5 ] contains these verses: "blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land" "praise the pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation," " ..... only a bare fraction of the teacher's time is given to reciting this short 22-word prayer, about the same amount of time that our crier spends announcing the opening of our sessions and ..... 426 which was created under governmental direction and which was approved by acts of parliament in 1548 and 1549, [ footnote 5 ] set out in minute detail the accepted form and content of prayer and other religious ceremonies to be used in the ..... but the successful revolution against english political domination was shortly followed by intense opposition to the practice of establishing ..... and marriages had ..... it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that almighty being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, .....

Kennedy Vs. Mendoza-martinez

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the short title of the act has since 1951 been the universal military training and service act. ..... the legislative history of 2282 and of its complement, 2281, [ footnote 6 ] requiring three judges to hear injunctive suits directed against federal and state legislation, respectively, indicates that these sections were enacted to prevent a single federal judge from being able to paralyze totally the operation of an entire regulatory scheme, either state or federal, by issuance of a broad injunctive order. ..... even if the incidence of conviction for draft evasion were potentially relevant to the validity of 401(j) and 349(a)(10), the fact is that the "crime" created by these sections includes an element not necessary to conviction for violation of 11 of the selective service and training act of 1940 -- "[d]eparting from or remaining outside" the country "for the purpose of evading or avoiding [military] training and service. . . . ..... the predecessor statute and judicial construction the subsections here in question have their origin in part of a civil war "act to amend the several acts heretofore passed to provide for the enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes. ..... 112 (1866), in which, as in most of the cases which followed, [ footnote 32 ] the plaintiff had brought an action against the election judge of his home township, alleging that the defendant had refused to receive his ballot on the ground .....

Lachman Utamchand Kirpalani Vs. Meena Alias Mota

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1964SC40; (1964)66BOMLR297; [1964]4SCR331

..... section 10(1)(a) does not proprio vigore bring about dissolution of marriage ..... to be a reproduction of the actual words used by the respondent, and that, even if she had used those words, it was only a statement made in a huff in a short interview and could not be taken as a final word on the subject as to compel a court to hold that she deserted her husband without reasonable cause. ..... (1) either party to a marriage whether solemnized before or after the commencement of this act, may present a petition to the district court praying for a decree for judicial separation on the ground that the other party- (a) has deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of not less than two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition ; or" this sub-section is followed by an explanation ..... , and when in spite of repeated assertions in her letters and telegrams that she would be coming back, but she fails so to return when she had occasion and opportunity to do so, we consider that her acts and conduct in failing to return are entitled to more weight as evidence of her true intention than her assurances contained in her letters. ..... the hindu marriage act, 1955 (act 25 of 1955), hereinafter called the act, codified the ..... 10(1) (a) of the hindu marriage act, 1955 (which we shall hereafter refer to as the act), praying for a decree against the respondent, his wife, for judicial separation on the ground that in terms of that provision she had "deserted" him for "a continuous period of not .....

Bell Vs. Maryland

Court : US Supreme Court

..... anglo-american" common law, as it then existed in the several states, to prohibit owners of inns and other establishments open to the public from discriminating on account of race; (2) in passing the civil rights act of 1866 and other civil rights legislation, congress meant access to such establishments to be among the "civil rights" protected; (3) finally, those who framed and passed the fourteenth amendment intended it, of its own force, ..... of covenants was forbidden state action because the right of a citizen to own, use, enjoy, occupy, and dispose of property is a federal right protected by the civil rights acts of 1866 and 1870, validly passed pursuant to congressional power authorized by section 5 of the fourteenth amendment. ..... we held without dissent, in an opinion written by chief justice vinson, that there was nonetheless state action within the meaning of the fourteenth amendment: "the short of the matter is that, from the time of the adoption of the fourteenth amendment until the present, it has been the consistent ruling of this court that the ..... or control from beneficial ownership was part of the phenomenon of change: "this dissolution of the atom of property destroys the very foundation on which the economic order ..... estate should not be used or occupied by negroes, orientals, or any other non-caucasians, either as owners or tenants, and that, in case of use or occupancy by such proscribed classes, the title of any person so using or occupying it should be divested. .....

Georgia Vs. Rachel

Court : US Supreme Court

..... states, of all causes, civil and criminal, affecting persons who are denied or cannot enforce in the courts or judicial tribunals of the state or locality where they may be any of the rights secured to them by the first section of this act; [ footnote 2/1 ] and if any suit or prosecution, civil or criminal, has been or shall be commenced in any state court, against any such person, for any cause whatsoever, or against any officer, civil or military, ..... [ footnote 9 ] section 1 of the civil rights act of 1866 provided in relevant part: "[a]ll ..... or military, or other person, for any arrest or imprisonment or other trespasses or wrongs, made or committed by virtue of or under color of authority derived from any law providing for equal rights as aforesaid, or for refusing to do any act on the ground that it would be inconsistent with such law, such suit or prosecution may, upon the petition of such defendant, filed in said state court at any time before the trial or final hearing of the cause ..... " [ footnote 21 ] section 1446 of title 28 requires that a removal petition contain "a short and plain statement of the facts" that purportedly ..... section 74 became 1443 in the revision of title 28 in ..... section 31 was carried forward without change as 74 of title 28 of the united states code, as ..... predated the enactment of the public accommodations title of the civil rights act of 1964, it could not have explicitly alleged coverage under that act. ..... [ footnote 2/2 ] title 28, united states code 1443 .....

Afroyim Vs. Rusk

Court : US Supreme Court

..... provided that persons subject to its provisions should not thereafter exercise various "rights of citizens"; [ footnote 2/32 ] if the section had not been intended to cause expatriation, it is difficult to see why these additional provisions would have been thought necessary ..... 278 was introduced into the senate by senator reed of maryland; the amendment, as subsequently modified, provided that any citizen who accepted a title of nobility, pension, or emolument from a foreign state, or who married a person of royal blood, should "cease to be a ..... interesting to note that the proponents of the bill, such as congressman cobb of georgia, considered it to be "the simple declaration of the manner in which a voluntary act, in the exercise of a natural right, may be performed" and denied that it created or could lead to the creation of "a presumption of relinquishment of the right ..... at 302 and 303 [argument of counsel -- omitted], the court held in mackenzie that marriage between an american citizen and an alien, unaccompanied by any intention of the citizen to renounce her citizenship, nonetheless ..... [ footnote 2/59 ] further, the executive authorities of the united states repeatedly acted, in the 40 years following 1868, upon the premise that a citizen might automatically be deemed to have expatriated himself by conduct short of a voluntary renunciation of citizenship; individual citizens were, as the court indicated in perez, regularly held on this basis ..... rights act of 1866, ..... 1866 ..... 1866 ..... 1866 ..... 1866 .....

United States Vs. Louisiana

Court : US Supreme Court

..... question presented by the application of this provision to the louisiana coast is whether the territorial sea -- or, for purposes of this case, the three-mile grant to louisiana under the submerged lands act -- is to be measured from low tide elevations which lie within three miles of the baseline across the mouth of a bay but more than three miles from any point on the ..... not alone a sufficient exercise of dominion to constitute a claim to historic inland waters; and, in any event, no such claim can be made in the face of longstanding disclaimers of historic title and the absence of any treatment of the "inland water line" by the united states as delimiting an area within which it can exercise jurisdiction over anything but navigation. pp. ..... ." "justice brennan: well, would you tell me why part (a)(2) of that title dealing with this very section, for example, there is a provision that 'the outer limits of inland waters in santa barbara harbor shall be,' and then there is a description, a line drawn from santa barbara, the ..... . 426, 428, judge hough, of the circuit court for the southern district of new york, said in 1909: "this legislation [the 1895 act], however, was for the purpose of delimiting the inland waters of the united states, in order to inform navigators where the inland rules of navigation, as distinguished ..... united states' argument that a "mere spoil bank" should not be deemed part of the coast because it is not "purposeful or useful" and is likely to be "short-lived ..... .....

Adickes Vs. S. H. Kress and Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... section 1983 was patterned after 2 of the civil rights act of 1866, 14 stat. 27. ..... of the united states, with and subject to the same rights of appeal, review upon error, and other remedies provided in like cases in such courts, under the provisions of the act of the ninth of april, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled 'an act to protect all persons in the united states in their civil rights, and to furnish the means of their vindication'; and the other remedial laws of the united states which are in ..... in other legal usage, the word "color," as in "color of authority," "color of law," "color of office," "color of title," and "colorable," suggests a kind of holding out, and means "appearance, semblance, or simulacrum," but not necessarily the reality. ..... [ footnote 10 ] powell described the circumstances of his refusal as follows: "on this particular day, just shortly after 12 o'clock, i estimate there was 75 to 100 people in the store, and the lunch counter was pretty -- was pretty well to capacity there, full, and i was going up towards the front of the store in one of ..... 257, the following chapters of the general laws of mississippi, all enacted during february, march, and april, 1956, are cited under that heading: (1) chapter 241 (maximum ten-year penalty for incestuous or interracial marriage); (2) chapter 253 [now miss.code ann. ..... mere state inaction converted customary private discrimination into a denial of equal protection, which congress, under 1 and 5, had power to remedy .....

H.H. Maharajadhiraja Madhav Rao Jivaji Rao ScIndia Bahadur of Gwalior ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1971SC530; (1971)1SCC85; [1971]3SCR9

..... of india, which includes duly appointed representatives of this state, provides a suitable basis for doing so;i, jiwajirao madhavrao scindia, raj pramukh of the madhya bharat, now hereby declare and direct-that the constitution of india shortly to be adopted by the constituent assembly of india shall be the con stitution for the madhya bharat as for the other parts of india and shall be enforced as such in accordance with the tenor of its provisions;that ..... the privy purse settlements are there fore in the nature of consideration for the surrender by the rulers of all their ruling powers and also for the dissolution of the states as separate units....the rulers have now discharged their part of the obligations by transferring all ruling powers and by agreeing to the integration of their ..... they included several exemptions from the operation of indian laws, the enjoyment of jagir and personal property of the rulers and members of their families, the payment by the states of the marriage expenses of the brothers and sisters of the rulers, immunity from some processes of courts of law, immunity from requisitioning of the private properties of the rulers and their families and so on and so ..... an act of 1858 titled 'an act for the better government of india' provided by the 67th section that 'all treaties made by the company shall be binding upon hermajesty ..... 216 states merged in the adjoining provinces, 61 states were converted into centrally administered areas and 275 states formed unions. .....