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Townsend Vs. Swank

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the classification as designed to attain the twin goals of aiding needy children to become employable and self-sufficient, and of insuring fiscal integrity of the state's welfare ..... held: under 402(a)(10) of the social security act, a state participating plan under the afdc program must provide that aid to families with dependent children shall be furnished with reasonable promptness to ..... section 402(a)(10) of the social security act provides that state participatory plans submitted under the afdc program for the approval of the secretary of the department of health, education, and welfare (hew) must provide "that aid to families with dependent children shall be furnished with reasonable promptness to ..... social security act provided aid only to dependent children under the age ..... cases -- and the other afdc cases on the court's docket -- it seems appropriate to keep clearly in mind that title iv of the social security act governs the dispensation of federal funds and that it does no more than that. ..... alabama regulation defined "parent" in a manner inconsistent with 406(a) of the social security act, and therefore that, in "denying afdc assistance to [children] on the basis of this invalid regulation, alabama has breached its federally imposed obligation to furnish 'aid to families with dependent children . . . ..... the united states, as amicus curiae, cites sections of the social security act as supporting illinois' contention that its college-vocational school distinction is authorized. .....

Jefferson Vs. Hackney

Court : US Supreme Court

..... texas argues that afdc children can be employed, whereas recipients of other ..... grant is always less than the standard of need, in many instances, the system adopted by the welfare reform act will result in an individual's need not being met even after adding both exempt and nonexempt income to the ..... that "congress directed the thrust of the act to the consequences of employment practices, not simply the motivation. ..... footnote 2/4 ] under 402(a)(10) of the social security act (which governs afdc), "aid to families with dependent children shall be furnished with reasonable promptness to all eligible ..... rather, it merely emphasizes that which -- until today -- was the broad scheme of the social security act: those whose nonexempt income was below the standard of need established by the state and who met the other nonfinancial criteria for ..... employment tests having racially discriminatory effects were found not to be job-related, and, for that reason, were impermissible under the specific language of title vii of the civil rights act ..... 15 ] each categorical assistance program is embodied in a separate title of the social security act, see n 2, supra, and requires a state plan independent of the plans under the ..... moreover, it had an additional reason: "the conclusion that the social security act requires outside income to be subtracted from standards of need, rather than from statutory maximums or ratable reductions, is also founded on a strong public policy of encouraging welfare recipients to .....

Weinberger Vs. Wiesenfeld

Court : US Supreme Court

..... [ footnote 18 ] once again, this distinction among women is explicable only because congress was not concerned in 402(g) with the employment problems of women generally but with the principle that children of covered employees are entitled to the personal attention of the surviving parent if that parent chooses not to work. ..... 402(g), that grant survivors' benefits based on the earnings of a deceased husband and father covered by the act both to his widow and to the couple's minor children in her care, but that grant benefits based on the earnings of a covered deceased wife and mother only to the minor children and not to the widower, violates the right to equal protection secured by the due process clause of the fifth amendment, since it unjustifiably discriminates against female wage ..... see also final report of the advisory council on social security 31 (1938); hearings on the social security act amendments of 1939 before the house committee on ways and means, 76th cong. ..... even in the typical family hypothesized by the act, in which the husband is supporting the family and the mother is caring for the children, this result makes no sense. ..... 638 earnings of a deceased wife and mother covered by the act, however, only to the minor children, and not to the widower. ..... social security act benefits based on the earnings of a deceased husband and father covered by the act are payable, with some limitations, both to the widow and to the couple's minor children in her care. .....

Shakuntala Devi (Smt) Vs. Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : I(1995)ACC278; 1995(43)BLJR751; JT1995(1)SC547; 1995(1)SCALE318; (1994)2SCC369; 1995(1)LC317(SC)

..... in the evening when ram naresh yadav was returning from the place of employment, when he was not aware of the electricity leakage, he came in contact with the live cable and got electrocuted on the spot and ..... examined in a suit where correct facts can be established but as that would involve long delay and the misery of the petitioner and her young children who were stranded in life would linger on we suggest to the learned counsel for respondent no. ..... has left the petitioner and her young children destitutes, the present petition is moved under article 32 of the constitution presumably relying upon petitioner's fundamental rights under article 21 of the constitution which have got adversely affected on account of the negligent act of the officials of respondent no. ..... 3 will see to it that such employment on compassionate ground is given to the petitioner's son anil kumar according to his suitability and educational qualifications and appropriate job will be given to him latest within six ..... 3 ex-employer of the deceased is concerned, he stated that whatever was due to the deceased under the workmen compensation act and as per the rules and regulations of the institution has already been ..... deceased husband of the petitioner got employment as gardener in the organisation of ..... 3 will give suitable employment to him at the earliest but not later than six months from the date on which such application is received ..... 3 to give compassionate employment suitable to the qualification of petitioner .....

Gaurav JaIn Vs. Union of India and Others

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1997SC3021; 1997(2)ALD(Cri)199; 1998(3)ALLMR(SC)433; 1997(2)Crimes40(SC); JT1997(6)SC305; 1997(4)SCALE657; (1997)8SCC114; [1997]Supp2SCR105

..... article 24 prohibits employment of children in any hazardous employment or in any factory ..... by the delhi police pursuant to a complaint under section 13 of the jj act on march 7, 1990, led to frustration of the entire operation, when on an early morning, the prostitutes were taken by surprise by tap on the doors and children were taken into custody, on the pretext of being examined by the doctors. ..... by voluntary organisations working for women, advocacy groups and various individuals urging the enlargement of the scope of the act, to make penal provisions more stringent and to provide for certain minimum standards for correctional treatment and rehabilitation of the ..... with meaningful action imperatives, apart from the administrative action which aims at arresting immoral traffic of women under itp act through inter-state or interpol arrangements and the nodal agency like the cbi is charged to investigate and prevent such ..... therefore, all the types of juveniles defined within the ambit of neglected juvenile, though attached with certain acts or omission, are punishable under law they still remain to be neglected juvenile and should be dealt with by the welfare board and he brought within the protective umbrella of the juvenile ..... parties to breathe life into the dry bones of the constitution, international conventions and the protection of human rights act, to prevent gender-based discrimination and to effectuate right to life including empowerment of economic, social and cultural rights .....

Woodland Vs. Essex County Council

Court : UK Supreme Court

..... it was a difficult case arising out of sexual assaults on children by a teacher in circumstances where there was no allegation and no finding of vicarious liability by the courts below, perhaps because criminal assaults were thought to be outside the course of a teacher's employment (the case was pleaded and tried before the decision of the house of lords in lister v hesley hall ltd [2002] 1 ..... the consequences of a breach of his own duty, but he can escape responsibility for collateral or casual acts of negligence if he can show that the negligent person was employed, not under a contract of service but only under a contract for services... ..... " the principle thus expressed was qualified only by its limitation to those acts of the delegate which were within the scope of the employer's personal duty: "it is not, however, broken by a mere misuse or failure to use proper plant and appliances due to the negligence of a fellow-servant or a merely temporary failure to keep in order or adjust plant and appliances or a casual ..... liable for the negligent acts of a member of the hospital staff which constitute a breach of that duty, whether or not the member of the staff is himself in breach of a separate duty of care owed by him to the plaintiff: gold v essex county council [1942] 2 kb 293, 301, per lord green[e]; cassidy v ministry of health [1951] 2 kb 343, per denning lj; roe v minister of health [1954] 2 qb 66; see also wilsons and clyde coal co ltd v english [1938] ac 57; mcdermid v .....

L, R (on the Application Of) Vs. Commissioner of Police of the Metropo ...

Court : UK Supreme Court

..... comprehensively explained by my lords, it provides a mechanism whereby those considering the employment of someone applying to work with children may be the better informed as to that person's suitability for the post - more particularly as to whether there is anything known to the police about the person such as should give the prospective employer, at the very least, pause for thought. 63. ..... he referred also to dyson j's judgment in r v local authority and police authority in the midlands, ex p lm [2000] 1 flr 612 in which the approach that was to be taken to section 115(7) of the 1997 act was directly in issue, where he said at p 622: "in my view, the guiding principles for the exercise of the power to disclose in the present case are those enunciated in r v chief constable of the north wales police, ex ..... that the appellant had no criminal convictions and that no information on her was recorded either on the list held under section 142 of the education act 2002 or on the protection of children act 1999 list. ..... "in this section - 'central records' means such records of convictions and cautions held for the use of police forces generally as may be prescribed; 'exempted question' means a question in relation to which section 4(2)(a) or (b) of the rehabilitation of offenders act 1974 (effect of rehabilitation) has been excluded by an order of the secretary of state under section 4(4); 'relevant matter' means - (i) a conviction within the meaning of the rehabilitation of offenders .....

Hammer Vs. Dagenhart

Court : US Supreme Court

..... case is whether congress has power to prohibit the shipment in interstate or foreign commerce of any product of a cotton mill situated in the united states in which, within thirty days before the removal of the product, children under fourteen have been employed or children between fourteen and sixteen have been employed more than eight hours in a day, or more than six days in any week, or between seven in the evening and six in the morning. ..... in our view, the necessary effect of this act is, by means of a prohibition against the movement in interstate commerce of ordinary commercial commodities, to regulate the hours of labor of children in factories and mines within the states, a ..... 45 , this court sustained the power of congress to pass the pure food and drug act, which prohibited the introduction into the states by means of interstate commerce of impure foods ..... 308 , this court sustained the constitutionality of the so-called "white slave traffic act," whereby the transportation of a woman in interstate commerce for the purpose of ..... elaborate discussion, the present chief justice excluded any inquiry into the purpose of an act which, apart from that purpose, was within the power of congress. ..... minor sons, one under the age of fourteen years and the other between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, employees in a cotton mill at charlotte, north carolina, to enjoin the enforcement of the act of congress intended to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor. .....

Carleson Vs. Remillard

Court : US Supreme Court

..... we are especially confident congress could not have designed an act leaving uncared for an entire class who became "needy children" because their fathers were in the armed services defending their ..... were faced with an alabama regulation which defined a mother's paramour as a "parent" for 606(a)(1) purposes, thus permitting the state to deny afdc benefits to needy dependent children on the theory that there was no parent who was continually absent from the home. ..... includes in the definition of "dependent children" those "under the age of twenty-one and (as determined by the state in accordance with standards prescribed by the secretary [of hew]) a student regularly attending a school, college, or university, or regularly attending a course of vocational or technical training designed to fit him for gainful employment. ..... illinois had defined afdc eligible dependent children to include 18-20-year-old high school or vocational school children, but not children of the same age group attending ..... that congress had defined "parent" as a breadwinner who was legally obligated to support his children, and that alabama was precluded from altering that federal standard. ..... visits, trips made in connection with current or prospective employment, active duty in the armed services. ..... his was a kind of involuntary employment where legally he could do virtually nothing to improve the economic welfare of ..... no labor union or other agency to look to as a means of persuading his employer to pay him a living wage. .....

Wheeler Vs. Barrera

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the court of appeals reversed and remanded, holding that: petitioners were violating the requirement of the act and implementing regulations that educationally deprived nonpublic school children be afforded a program comparable to that provided in public schools; if "on the premises" special teaching services are furnished public school children, then comparable programs must be provided nonpublic school children; the state constitutional provision barring use of "public" school funds in private schools did not apply to title i ..... 415 iii in this court, the parties are at odds over two issues: first, whether on this record title i requires the assignment of publicly employed teachers to provide remedial instruction during regular school hours on the premises of private schools attended by title i eligible students, and, second, whether that requirement, if it exists, contravenes the first amendment ..... on remand, the district court found that, while most of the title i funds allocated to public schools in missouri were used "to employ teachers to instruct in remedial subjects," the petitioners had refused "to approve any applications allocating money for teachers in parochial schools during regular school hours ..... at this stage of the proceedings, this court cannot reach and decide whether title i requires the assignment of publicly employed teachers to provide remedial instruction during regular school hours on the premises of private schools attended by title i eligible students. .....