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..... , 20 how. 583, made it clear that there were fact situations which were of maritime cognizance, giving rise to rights for which the admiralty could supply a remedy, or for which alternatively proceedings at the course of common law lay. maritime torts were specifically conceived of as within this category. the court ..... and procedure (4th ed. 1942). page 358 u. s. 388 federal redbook and practice annual (schweitzer ed. 2d ed. 1943). bender, federal practice manual (1948). sunderland, judicial administration (1948). guandolo, federal procedure forms (1949). moore, a commentary on the judicial code (1949). wendell, relations between the federal and state courts (1949). barron and ..... xliii-xlviii. [ footnote 32 ] see, e.g., madruga v. superior court of california, 346 u. s. 556 , 346 u. s. 560 -561: "[t]he jurisdictional act [the act of 1789] does leave state courts 'competent' to adjudicate maritime causes of action in proceedings ' in personam. ' . . . [t]his court has said that a state, 'having .....
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..... pipe line co. v. public service commission, 332 u. s. 507 . this power was recognized at the time the act was passed, see powell, note, physics and law -- commerce in gas and electricity, 58 harv.l.rev. 1072, and it is clear that congress excepted federal regulation of direct sales precisely for this reason. ..... lies in its potential to establish a new, unregulated, interstate market for natural gas -- by the large industrial consumer purchasing directly from the producer -- which will compete for new gas supplies with the regulated market over which the commission currently exercises jurisdiction. . . ." " * * * *" "in the commission's view, the new market which this and further ..... , and wisconsin. these state commissions have argued in support of the federal power commission's position. [ footnote 3 ] see f.p.c., natural gas investigation (1948), docket g-580, olds-draper report, pp. 6-14. [ footnote 4 ] the cases in which the commission has considered the end use factor are collected in .....
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..... 78 are analogous to the proscription of specified credit transactions, or specified security sales, or specified political contributions, by the public utility holding company act considered in electric bod & share. although they become operative as soon as a registration order is made final, their application remains in a very real sense problematical ..... myself with whether the party may interpose the constitutional privilege of its members because of the nature of the information about them required to be supplied to complete the registration statement as described in the attorney general's form isa-1. section 7(d) requires that the registration statement ..... world war ii before and after the german attack on the soviet union; dissolution of the communist international, 1943; west germany; the italian election of 1948; north atlantic pact; control of atomic energy; election of yugoslavia to the united nations security council, 1949; cardinal mindszenty case, 1949; united nations action .....
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..... ] gains through the avenue of force and violence, by overthrow of the government, by proletariat faction. . . ." reavis was later advised to seek employment at the western electric plant in winston-salem. he stated: "i bumped into mr. scales at harvey's home and i -- the report said . . . the advice i'd been getting ..... vol. i, p. 198. [ footnote 3/2 ] the prototype of the present prosecution is found in communist lands. the communist government in czechoslovakia on october 6, 1948, promulgated a law, 3 of which provided: "(1) whoever publicly or before several people instigates against the republic, against its independence, constitutional unity, territorial integrity or its ..... be indictable and subject to imprisonment under section 4(a)." 96 cong.rec. 14442-14443. (emphasis supplied.) [ footnote 6 ] perhaps the closest we come to any suggestion that 4(f) repeals, pro tanto, the smith act is the statement by representative multer of new york, an opponent of the measure, during the debate .....
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..... such as the 'water cures' (dousing, ducking, and near-drowning), spinning in a chair, centrifugal swinging, and an early form of electric shock. all, it would appear, were planned as means of driving from the body some evil spirit or toxic vapor." action for mental ..... article 1 of chapter 1 of division 10 of the health and safety code." california welfare and institutions code, 5350. (emphasis supplied.) this proceeding is clearly civil in nature with a purpose of rehabilitation and cure. significantly, if it is found that a person ..... 2/3 ] see 3 catholic u.l.rev. 117 (1953); 31 marq.l.rev. 108 (1947); 22 st. john's l.rev. 270 (1948); 2 stan.l.rev. 174 (1949); 33 va.l.rev. 348 (1947); 21 tul.l.rev. 480 (1947); 1960 wash.u.l.q., ..... the repeal of 11721, and the state legislature in its discretion continued the policy of that section. apart from prohibiting specific acts such as the purchase, possession and sale of narcotics, california has taken certain legislative steps in regard to the status of .....
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..... specialized areas of the economy such as banking were not even considered. thus, the federal trade commission's 1948 report on mergers recounted the statistics on concentration in a multitude of industries -- e.g., steel, cement, electrical equipment, food and dairy products, tobacco, textiles, paper, chemicals, rubber -- but included not one figure ..... reconciliation services; foreign department services (acceptances and letters of credit); correspondent services; investment advice. it should be noted that many other institutions are in the business of supplying credit, and so more or less in competition with commercial banks ( see further, pp. 374 u. s. 356 -357, infra ), for example: mutual ..... 374 u. s. 380 deliberate policy judgment that "it is impossible to subject bank mergers to the simple rule of section 7 of the clayton act. under that act, a merger would be barred if it might tend substantially to lessen competition, regardless of the effects on the public interest." 105 cong.rec. .....
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..... installing counsel as the arbiter of the privilege. in sum, for all the court's expounding on the menacing atmosphere of police interrogation procedures, it has failed to supply any foundation for the conclusions it draws or the measures it adopts. iv criticism of the court's opinion, however, cannot stop with a demonstration that the ..... washington, 373 u.s. page 384 u. s. 493 503, 373 u. s. 512 -513 (1963); haley v. ohio, 332 u. s. 596 , 332 u. s. 601 (1948) (opinion of mr justice douglas). no. 760. vignera v. new york petitioner, michael vignera, was picked up by new york police on october 14, 1960, in connection with the robbery ..... deals only with compulsion, while the confession rule may exclude statements obtained by trick or promise, and where the privilege has been nullified -- as by the english bankruptcy act -- the confession rule may still operate. [ footnote 3/7 ] additionally, there are precedents and even historical arguments that can be arrayed in favor of bringing extra-legal .....
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..... ] petitioner francis had been sentenced to be electrocuted for the crime of murder. he was placed in the electric chair, and the executioner threw the switch. due to a mechanical difficulty, death did not result. a new ..... which we may determine whether a particular punishment is "cruel and unusual." the primary principle, which i believe supplies the essential predicate for the application of the others, is that a punishment must not, by its severity, ..... required a second attempt at execution if the first attempt failed. l. radzinowicz, a history of english criminal law 185-186 (1948). [ footnote 4/31 ] mr. justice brennan concurred, and concluded that the statute authorizing deprivations of citizenship exceeded congress' ..... therefore, unconstitutional. there are six purposes conceivably served by capital punishment: retribution, deterrence, prevention of repetitive criminal acts, encouragement of guilty pleas and confessions, eugenics, and economy. these are considered seriatim below. a. the .....
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..... rates unlawful in general revenue proceedings to be unreviewable. the court noted that this court had divided evenly in 400 u. s. 73 (1970) in affirming atlantic city electric co. v. united states, 306 f.supp. 338 (sdny 1969), and alabama power co. v. united states, 316 f.supp. 337 (dc 1970), and that ..... prices are determined by a number of factors operating simultaneously; among them are the aggregate demand for steel, the price and transportation costs of iron ore, the supply of scrap, as well as the transportation cost of scrap and other factors. it would be surprising indeed if, in light of the number of factors constantly ..... [ footnote 12 ] the soundness of this conclusion appears even more clearly from the legislative history of 28 u.s.c. 2325. before 1948, review of icc orders was governed by the urgent deficiencies appropriations act of 1913. 38 stat. 220. it provided in part: "no interlocutory injunction suspending or restraining the enforcement, operation, or execution of, .....
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..... is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. [ footnote 80 ]" third, and not least significant, recordkeeping, reporting, page 424 u ..... the completion of performance under, or (2) the termination of negotiations for, such contract or furnishing of material, supplies, equipment, land or buildings, directly or indirectly makes any contribution of money or other thing of value, or promises ..... are not confined to "the exposition of ideas," winters v. new york, 333 u. s. 507 , 333 u. s. 510 (1948), "there is practically universal agreement that a major purpose of that amendment was to protect the free discussion of governmental affairs, . . . ..... from the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit syllabus the federal election campaign act of 1971 (act), as amended in 1974, (a) limits political contributions to candidates for federal elective office by an .....
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