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May 16 1960 (HC)

Mirza Akbar Kasini Vs. United Arab Republic and anr.

Court : Kolkata

Decided on : May-16-1960

Reported in : AIR1960Cal768

..... fund or other item of trust property within the area or jurisdiction of the chancery courts. there is a trust to be administered by the court. judges in equity believe that they have responsibility for administering and determining the rights to such property even though a foreign sovereign might be known to be a ..... to be recovered. this principle of absolute immunity has sometimes been applied regardless of the distinction between acts jure gestionis and acts jure imperii. there has been certain amount of hesitation expressed from time to time by judges as to whether in the first place the principle of absolute immunity should be affirmed with any rigidity ..... a foreign state, a judgment against a foreign state will be incapable of execution. finally, the adherents of absolute immunity state that a distinction between acts jure gestionis and acts jure imperii is perhaps impossible to be defined and applied. suppose, a foreign state enters into a contact for the purchase of shoes for its army .....

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Jul 26 1960 (HC)

S.B. Choudhury and anr. Vs. I.P. Changkakati and anr.

Court : Guwahati

Decided on : Jul-26-1960

Reported in : 1960CriLJ1551

..... to give any evidence derived therefrom,5. it was contended by mr., ghose for the petitioners that under section 162 of the evidence act, the documents having been called for from the officers concerned and the sessions judge having issued notice to these officers to produce the documents, they were bound to bring them to court notwithstanding any objection to their production ..... that the privilege was claimed by him. no particular form is prescribed for claiming any such privilege and if the sessions judge acted on the said affidavit and considered it sufficient, it cannot be said that the order of the sessions judge is vitiated even if the contention of the petitioners is accepted that the affidavit was not in proper form.the claim .....

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Oct 20 1960 (HC)

Mst. Viran Wali Vs. State

Court : Jammu and Kashmir

Decided on : Oct-20-1960

Reported in : 1961CriLJ258

..... definition of the words 'person in authority' but it is well established that the words have reference to a person who has authority to interfere in the matter under inquiry.... the reported cases on the point show that, generally speaking, a 'person in authoritywithin the meaning of section 24 is the one who is engaged in the apprehension ..... lr) : at page 273 of air says that section will be applicable to a confession made by a person, who becomes subsequently accused of an offence. the other judges in effect accept this, but they differed from the learned chief justice on the question of fact as to whether the confessions were made by inducement, threat or promise. ..... , it was contended by mr. sharma, that the confession made by her (the appellant) was not voluntary and was also inadmissible under section 24 of the evidence act. in our opinion, the contention seems to be well founded and must prevail.13. the advocate general on the other hand submitted two serious arguments to rule out the .....

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Jun 13 1960 (FN)

Hoffman Vs. Blaski

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : Jun-13-1960

..... , the parties have in this court commendably narrowed their contentions to the scope of the only relevant inquiry. the points of contention may be sharpened by first observing what is not in contest. discretion of the district judges concerned is not involved. propriety of the remedy of mandamus is not assailed. no claim is made ..... 1400(b), which provides: "(b) any civil action for patent infringement may be brought in the judicial district where the defendant resides, or where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business." see stonite products co. v. melvin lloyd co., 315 u. s. 561 ; fourco glass co. ..... of such a provision, see baltimore & ohio r. co. v. kepner, . . . 314 u. s. 44 , . . . which was prosecuted under the federal employer's liability act in new york, although the accident occurred and the employee resided in ohio. the new subsection requires the court to determine that the transfer is necessary for convenience of the .....

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May 16 1960 (FN)

Parker Vs. Ellis

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : May-16-1960

..... of the writ is no longer relevant, because the function of the writ -- to provide and to facilitate inquiry into the validity of the applicant's claim -- has already been fully served. [ footnote 8 ] the district judge page 362 u. s. 583 ordered that petitioner's application be heard upon affidavits, depositions, and the record ..... there is also some dispute among these authors with respect to the historical significance of the jenkes case. the nature of the abuses which led to passage of the act is clear, however, and, for present purposes, it is immaterial which particular case aroused the greatest public sentiment. [ footnote 14 ] under our habeas corpus statute ..... state's interest in upholding the validity of this conviction is insubstantial. [ footnote 30 ] for example, under 504 of the labor-management reporting and disclosure act of 1959, persons who have been convicted of specified crimes are ineligible to serve for a five-year period in various positions for labor unions or employer .....

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Mar 28 1960 (FN)

Abel Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : Mar-28-1960

..... this point. if the search here were of the sort the fourth amendment contemplated, there would be no need for the elaborate, if somewhat pointless, inquiry the court makes into the "good faith" of the arrest. once it is established that a simple executive arrest of one as a deportable alien gives ..... we conclude, therefore, that government officers who effect a deportation arrest have a right of incidental search analogous to the search permitted criminal law enforcement officers. judged by the prevailing doctrine, the search of petitioner's hotel room was justified. its physical scope, being confined to the petitioner's room and the ..... their admissibility as evidence. affirmed. * "1. whether, under the laws and constitution of the united states (a) the administrative warrant of the new york acting district director of the immigration and naturalization service was validly issued, (b) such administrative warrant constituted a valid basis for arresting petitioner or taking him into custody, .....

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Jun 20 1960 (FN)

Flemming Vs. Nestor

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : Jun-20-1960

..... of the grounds specified in 202(n), his old-age benefits were terminated shortly thereafter. he commenced this action in a single-judge district court, under 205(g) of the social security act, to secure judicial review of that administrative decision. the district court held that 202(n) deprived appellee of an accrued property ..... trusted, and political liberty must be restrained." "james madison challenged this latter doctrine. the investigative power of congress over persons, he contended, was limited to inquiry into the conduct of individuals in the public service. 'opinions,' he said, 'are not the subjects of legislation.' start criticizing people for abuse of their ..... page 363 u. s. 637 is ground for the inference of a congressional concern with the administration of the social security program. only after this inquiry would i consider the application of the presumption. the court seems to acknowledge that the statute bears harshly upon the individual disqualified, but states that .....

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Mar 21 1960 (FN)

Flora Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : Mar-21-1960

..... .c. 1346(a)(1). once the basis which for me governed the disposition of the case was no longer available, i was thrown back to an independent inquiry of the course of tax legislation and litigation for more than a hundred years, for all of that was relevant to a true understanding of the problem presented ..... were capital in nature, and entered judgment in favor of the government. 142 f.supp. 602. the court of appeals for the tenth circuit agreed with the district judge upon the jurisdictional issue, and consequently remanded with directions to vacate the judgment and dismiss the complaint. 246 f.2d 929. we granted certiorari because the courts of ..... 237 u. s. 28 (1915), to have included jurisdiction over suits for tax refunds, as claims "founded upon" the internal revenue laws. the general language of that act, the tucker act, was most evidently not intended to, and did not, impose any new conditions upon the preexisting right to sue (the collector) for the refund of taxes illegally collected .....

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Jan 18 1960 (FN)

Kinsella Vs. Singleton

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : Jan-18-1960

..... civilian dependents are amenable to the code. in the second covert case, supra, it was held they were not so amenable as to capital offenses. our final inquiry, therefore, is narrowed to whether clause 14, which under the second covert case has been held not to include civilian dependents charged with capital offenses, may now be ..... states, though not otherwise subject to these articles." this section was reenacted in 1920, 41 stat. 787. [ footnote 3/22 ] general enoch h. crowder, then judge advocate general of the army, stated before the house committee on military affairs: "there is nothing new in the article in subjecting these several classes to the provisions of ..... of civilian dependents "accompanying," and civilians "employed by," the armed forces at military posts in foreign lands in time of peace. if it has, then congress has acted within its powers in enacting article 2(11) of the code -- otherwise not. inasmuch as six members of the court have held in covert that congress may not .....

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Dec 19 1960 (FN)

Reina Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

Decided on : Dec-19-1960

..... , in which the court upheld a federal immunity statute passed in the name of the commerce clause and construed that statute to apply to state prosecutions. the relevant inquiry here is thus simply whether the legislated state immunity is necessary and proper to the more effective enforcement of the undoubted power to enact the narcotics laws. it can ..... the state." id. , at 356 u. s. 218 . i adhere to that view and reiterate my belief that the court's position rests solely upon the fact that "judges and lawyers have told each other the contrary so often that they have come to accept it as the gospel truth." id. at 356 u. s. 219 . thus, i ..... involved with him and their activities in smuggling narcotics into this country from europe. he invoked his privilege against self-incrimination under the fifth amendment and refused to answer. acting pursuant to 18 u.s.c. 1406, which grants immunity from prosecution to a witness compelled to testify before a grand jury, the united states attorney, with .....

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