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..... 12, 13, 1935 decided april 1, 1935 * 294 u.s. 648 certiorari to the court of appeals for the seventh circuit syllabus 1. section 77 of the bankruptcy act, added by act of march 3, 1933, which provides a method whereby any railroad engaged in interstate commerce and which is insolvent, or "unable to pay its debts ..... 77, supra, may issue process for service outside of its district. p. 294 u. s. 682 . 13. the power given the reconstruction finance corporation, by 5 of the act creating it, to take over and liquidate collateral accepted by it as security does not render it more immune than other lenders to the control of ..... valley receiver's certificates 747,492.51 trinity & brazos valley first mortgage bonds (now pledged under colorado & southern mortgage; c.r. i & p. had agreed to pledge them with reconstruction finance corporation upon release from that mortgage may 1, 1935) 4,380,000.00 -------------- total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,490,965.85 assignment of chicago, rock island .....
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..... decline to adopt it. our interpretation of the term "parent" in 406(a) is strongly supported by the way the term is used in other sections of the act. section 402(a)(10) requires that, effective july 1, 1952, a state plan must: "provide for prompt notice to appropriate law enforcement officials of the ..... 19 ] state letter no. 452, bureau of public assistance, social security administration, department of health, education, and welfare. (emphasis added.) [ footnote 20 ] the senate finance committee report explained the purpose of the amendment as follows: "the department of health, education, and welfare, in january, 1961, advised the state agencies administering title iv of ..... have demonstrated what can be done with creative . . . programs of prevention and social rehabilitation." see hearings on h.r. 10606 before the senate committee on finance, 87th cong., 2d sess., 109 (1962). some insight into the mood of the congress that approved the flemming ruling in 1961 with respect to this matter .....
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..... alone can support a conviction-even without any corroborating evidence or outcry. the third feature is that article 38.07 establishes a suffi- 1 the chapter and sections to which this statute refers cover all the charges contained in the 15-count indictment against petitioner. chapter 21 includes the offense of indecency with a child ..... petitioner received concurrent sentences of 20 years. until september 1, 1993, the following statute was in ef- fect in texas: "a conviction under chapter 21, section 22.011, or section 22.021, penal code, is supportable on the uncorroborated testimony of the victim of the sexual offense if the victim informed any person, other than the ..... number, those acts in fact reflected a concern with prior monarchical abuses relating to the specific crime of treason, rather than any vestigial belief that the number of witnesses is a proxy for probative value. id., at 100-101; see also 7 j. wigmore, evidence 2037, pp. 353-354 (j. chadbourn rev. 1978). viii texas argues .....
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..... city should wish to grant the said franchise to any railroad before the expiration of the lease, they reserved the power to do so. by the fifteenth section of the act incorporating the city, power is given to the city council to license and establish ferries across the mississippi river from the city of dubuque to the opposite shore ..... was authorized to keep a horse ferry boat instead of a steamboat. in 1847, the general assembly of the state of iowa passed an act to incorporate the city of dubuque, the fifteenth section of which enacted that the "city council shall have power to license and establish ferries across the mississippi river, from said city to the ..... at any place on the public landing of said town, which was set apart for public purposes by act of congress approved the 3d of july, 1836, for the term of twenty years from the passage of the act." the second section declared "that no court or board of county commissioners shall authorize any person (unless as herein provided .....
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..... virginia to remain in force in that part of the district which had been ceded by virginia. subsequent to the act of assumption, an act passed supplementary to the act entitled "an act concerning the district of columbia," the second section of which is in these words: "all indictments shall run in the name of the united states and conclude ..... fines, penalties, and forfeitures accruing to the government. this subject will perhaps receive some elucidation from a review of the two acts of congress relative to the district of columbia. the first section of the first act, declaring that the laws of the two states respectively should remain in force in the parts of the territory ceded by each, ..... u. s. 253 the defendant was indicted for suffering a faro bank to be played in his house, contrary to an act of the assembly of virginia of 19 january, 1798, ch. 2, sec. 3. the act provides that "any person whatsoever who shall suffer the game of billiards, or any of the games played at the tables called .....
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..... government is "firmly committed to the page 471 u. s. 201 goal of promoting tribal self-government." id. at 462 u. s. 334 -335; see, e.g., indian financing act of 1974, 88 stat. 77, 25 u.s.c. 1451 et seq. the power to tax members and non-indians alike is surely an essential attribute of such self-government ..... certiorari to decide whether the navajo tribe of indians may tax business activities conducted on its land without first obtaining the approval of the secretary of the interior. i in 1978, the navajo tribal council, the governing body of the navajo tribe of indians, enacted two ordinances imposing page 471 u. s. 197 taxes known as the possessory ..... case is whether congress has enacted legislation requiring secretarial approval of navajo tax laws. petitioner suggests that the indian reorganization act of 1934 (ira or act), 48 stat. 984, 25 u.s.c. 461 et seq., is such a law. section 16 of the ira authorizes any tribe on a reservation to adopt a constitution and bylaws, subject to the .....
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..... . see generally citizens against rent control , 454 u. s. 290 (1981); first nat. bank of boston v. bellotti, 435 u. s. 765 (1978). section 323(b) also fails the narrow tailoring requirement because less burdensome regulatory options were available. the government justifies the provision as an attempt to stop national parties from ..... . a candidate, individual holding federal office, agent of a candidate or an individual holding federal office, or an entity directly or indirectly established, financed, maintained or controlled by or acting on behalf of 1 or more candidates or individuals holding federal office, shall not (a) solicit, receive, direct, transfer, or spend funds in ..... s], individual[s] holding federal office, agent[s] of a candidate or an individual holding federal office, or an entity directly or indirectly established, financed, maintained or controlled by or acting on behalf of 1 or more candidates or individuals holding federal office. 2 u. s. c. a. 441i(e) (supp. 2003). these .....
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..... i join all but part iv of the court s opinion. political speech is entitled to robust protection under the first amendment. section 203 of the bipartisan campaign reform act of 2002 (bcra) has never been reconcilable with that protection. by striking down 203, the court takes an important first step ..... regulate corporate spending on elections. austin and corporate expenditures just as the majority gives short shrift to the general societal interests at stake in campaign finance regulation, it also overlooks the distinctive considerations raised by the regulation of corporate expenditures. the majority fails to appreciate that austin s antidistortion rationale is ..... our earlier cases. ante , at 39; see also buckley , supra ; first nat. bank of boston v. bellotti , 435 u. s. 765 (1978). austin undermined the careful line that buckley drew to distinguish limits on contributions to candidates from limits on independent expenditures on speech. buckley rejected the asserted government interest .....
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..... the last an argument strongly pressed in behalf of the petitioner, but one more easily appraised in the light of what has gone before. the act for the formation of the reconstruction finance corporation has its own provisions for exemption, which have now to be considered. "the corporation, including its franchise, its capital, reserves, and ..... petitioner's path there still lies the stumbling block of that uncompromising "all." the judgment is affirmed. [ footnote 1 ] "shares of stock assessable under this section shall be taxed to the several owners thereof, and the taxes thereon shall be debts of such owners, but may be collected in each case from the bank or ..... the new issue through purchase or subscription. if they were to be exempt in the hands of a particular corporation, empowered to acquire them by an associated section, then was the appropriate time for announcing the exception. instead, there is a clear assumption, brought out into full relief by the exclusion of shares chargeable .....
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..... 28, 1942 decided june 1, 1942 316 u.s. 502 appeal from the court of errors and appeals of new jersey syllabus under the new jersey municipal finance act, a plan for the adjustment or composition of the claims of creditors of an insolvent municipality may be made binding on all creditors, if approved by the ..... holders of municipal and quasi-municipal obligations, passim; dimock, legal problems of financially embarrassed municipalities, contained in summary of proceedings, american bar assn., 1st annual meeting (1935), section of municipal law, p. 12 ( see also xxii virginia l.rev. 39). how, then, can claims against a financially embarrassed city be enforced? experience shows that three ..... proceeding provided for by this article and pending the determination thereof, the supreme court, by a justice thereof, may, by order, continue the stay provided by sections 52:27-32.1 and 52:27-33 of this title." "in the event that a plan shall be authorized and approved pursuant to this article, the .....
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