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..... states government's treatment of indian tribes, its failure to protect indian water rights for use on the reservations it set aside for them, is one of the sorrier chapters." national water comm'n, water policies for the future -- final report to the president and to the congress of the united states 475. president nixon admitted as much ..... (1929), 281 u. s. 281 u.s. 179, decree entered, 281 u. s. 281 u.s. 696 (1930), temporarily modified, 352 u. s. 945 (1956), 352 u.s. 983 (1957), superseded, 388 u. s. 388 u.s. 426 (1967); new jersey v. new york, 283 u. s. 336 , decree entered, 283 u. s. 805 (1931), modified, 347 u. s ..... directive, this court has applied to disputes between states over entitlement to water from interstate streams. nor was the local law of prior appropriation necessarily controlling. the project act itself was held to have created a comprehensive scheme for the apportionment among california, nevada, and arizona of the lower basin's share of the mainstream waters of the .....
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..... injunction in a case involving or growing out of a labor dispute, except in a strict conformity with the provisions of this chapter." 29 u.s.c. 101. section 4 enumerates specific acts that shall not be subject to any restraining order or injunction; these include: "(a) ceasing or refusing to perform any work ..... duty that is merely inferred from the language and structure of the rla. in trainmen v. chicago r. & i. r. co., 353 u. s. 30 (1957) ( chicago river ), for example, the court held that federal courts may enjoin a strike over a minor dispute in order to enforce compliance with 3 first of the ..... small railroad that is a subsidiary of guilford transportation industries, inc. (guilford), which also owns other railroads. after exhausting the settlement procedures mandated by the railway labor act (rla), bmwe instituted a lawful strike against the guilford railroads. bmwe later extended its picketing to other railroads (including petitioners) with which guilford interchanged traffic. in .....
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..... compare ginsberg v. new york, 390 u. s. 629 (1968) (upholding ban on sale of pornographic magazines to minors), with but ler v. michigan, 352 u. s. 380 (1957) (invalidating ban on all books unfit for minors); see also denver area ed. telecommunications consortium, inc. v. fcc, 518 u. s. 727 , 737-753 (1996) (plurality ..... . s. c. 561 (1994 ed., supp. iii); 47 cfr 76.227 (1999). section 505 was added by floor amendment, without significant debate, to the telecommunications act of 1996 (act), a major legislative effort designed "to reduce regulation and encourage 'the rapid deployment of new telecommunications technologies.'" reno v. american civil liberties union, 521 u. s. 844 ..... obscene on the basis of its appeal to them"), with butler v. michigan, 352 u. s. 380 , 381 (1957) (rejecting blanket ban of material "'tending to incite minors to violent or depraved or immoral acts, manifestly tending to the corruption of the morals of youth'" (quoting then mich. penal code 343)). each of these cases .....
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..... florida prepaid , 527 u. s., at 647. footnote 11 raines is inapposite in any event. the court there considered the constitutionality of the civil rights act of 1957 a statute designed to enforce the fifteenth amendment whose narrowly tailored substantive provisions could unquestionably be applied to state actors (like the respondents therein). 362 u. s ..... whether title ii substantively redefines the right of access to the courts. footnote 19 in raines , a state subject to suit under the civil rights act of 1957 contended that the law exceeded congress power to enforce the fifteenth amendment because it prohibited any person, and not just state actors, from interfering with ..... . the first question is easily answered in this case. the act specifically provides: a state shall not be immune under the eleventh amendment to the constitution of the united states from an action in federal or state court of competent jurisdiction for a violation of this chapter. 42 u. s. c. 12202. as in garrett , .....
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..... a. v. v. st. paul , 505 u. s. 377 , 382 383 (1992)). these limited areas such as obscenity, roth v. united states , 354 u. s. 476 , 483 (1957), incitement, brandenburg v. ohio , 395 u. s. 444 , 447 449 (1969) (per curiam) , and fighting words, chaplinsky v. new hampshire , 315 u. s. 568 , 572 (1942 ..... purveyors of video games for disfavored treatment at least when compared to booksellers, cartoonists, and movie producers and has given no persuasive reason why. the act is also seriously underinclusive in another respect and a respect that renders irrelevant the contentions of the concurrence and the dissents that video games are qualitatively ..... psychological studies purporting to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively. any demonstrated effects are both small and indistinguishable from effects produced by other media. since california has declined to restrict those other media, e .....
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..... purpose, the court reaffirmed the right of minority members of our society to participate meaningfully and equally in the political process. this case involves this last chapter of discrimination: a majority of the michigan electorate changed the basic rules of the political process in that state in a manner that uniquely disadvantaged racial ..... in the city of tuskegee by amending the state constitution to authorize legislative abolition of the county in which tuskegee was located, ala. const. amdt. 132 (1957), repealed by ala. const. amdt. 406 (1982), and by redrawing the city s boundaries to remove all the black voters while not removing a single white ..... may deny equal protection solely because it has a disparate racial impact. ante,at 15 (opinion concurring in judgment). he would acknowledge, however, that an act that draws racial distinctions or makes racial classifications triggers strict scrutiny regardless of whether discriminatory intent is shown. see adarand, 515 u. s., at 213. .....
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..... 1945); o'brien v. papas, 49 n.y.s.2d 521 (sup.ct.1944); taxicab drivers' local union no. 889 v. pittman, 322 p.2d 159 (okl.1957); international printing pressmen & assistants' union of north america v. smith, 145 tex. 399, 198 s.w.2d 729 (1946); leo v. local union no. 612 of ..... inapposite, and the ungoverned self-regulation became more and more obviously inadequate, with acceleratingly grave consequences. this impotency ultimately led to the enactment of the 1934 act. the house committee report summed up the long-developing problem in discussing the general purposes of the bill: "the fundamental fact behind the necessity for this ..... telephone connections which were essential to the conduct of their businesses. the members applied to the exchange, as required by its rules promulgated under the securities exchange act of 1934, for approval of the connections. temporary approval was granted and the connections were established; but, without prior notice to petitioners, the applications were .....
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..... "upon the evidence, the order of the board was reasonable." id. at 117, 180 n.w.2d at 3. see wis.stat.ann. 62.13(5)(h) (1957). there is no comparable statutory provision giving teachers the right to review this standard. finally, to impose a "reasonableness" requirement, or any other test that looks to evaluation ..... board of the otherwise unremarkable power the wisconsin legislature has given it only if the board's prior involvement in negotiating with the teachers means that it cannot act consistently with due process. c due process, as this court has repeatedly held, is a term that "negates any concept of inflexible procedures universally applicable to ..... second question involves the application of expertise by the parole authority in making a prediction as to the ability of the individual to live in society without committing antisocial acts. this part of the decision, too, depends on facts, and therefore it is important for the board to know not only that some violation was committed, .....
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..... the catch of fraser river salmon should be equally divided between canadian and american fishermen. convention of may 26, 1930, 50 stat. 1355, as amended by [1957] 8 u.s.t. 1058. to implement this agreement, the two governments established the international pacific salmon fisheries commission (ipsfc). each year, that commission proposes ..... been the intention of congress that indians should be excluded from their ancient fisheries," he noted that "no condition to this effect was inserted in the donation act," and therefore recommended the question "should be set at rest by law." report of governor stevens to the commissioner of indian affairs, app. 327. viewed ..... been the intention of congress that indians should be excluded from their ancient fisheries; but, as no condition to this effect was inserted in the donation act, the question has been raised whether persons taking claims, including such fisheries, do not possess the right of monopolizing. it is therefore desirable that this .....
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..... makes periodic contributions to any fund during the period of active service; instead, retired pay is funded by annual appropriations. military retirement hearings, at 5. in contrast, since 1957, military personnel have been required to contribute to the social security system. pub.l. 84-881, 70 stat. 870. see 42 u.s.c. 410( 1 ..... current or as deferred compensation. [ footnote 16 ] the statutory language is straightforward: page 453 u. s. 224 "a member of the army retired under this chapter is entitled to retired pay. . . ." 10 u.s. c 3929. in hisquierdo, 439 u.s. at 439 u. s. 584 , we emphasized that, under ..... 's point was that congress had provided some community property rights and made a conscious decision to provide no more: "congress carefully targeted the benefits created by the railroad retirement act. it even embodied a community concept to an extent. . . . congress purposefully abandoned that theory, however, in allocating benefits upon absolute divorce. . . . the choice .....
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