Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jul-02-1982
..... shaw, petitioner's common law wife and jeanette armstrong's mother, driving a yellow buick with a vinyl top which belonged to her and petitioner earl enmund. enmund was a passenger in the car along, with an unidentified woman. at about 8 a.m., the same witness saw the car return at a high rate of speed. enmund was driving, ida .....
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Decided on : Jul-02-1982
NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. - 458 U.S. 886 (1982) U.S. Supreme Court NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886 (1982) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Claiborne Hardware Co. No. 81-202 Argued March 3, 1982 Decided July 2, 1982 458 U.S. 886 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI Syllabus In 1966, a boycott of white merchants in Claiborne County, Miss., was launched at a meeting of a local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) attended by several hundred black persons. The purpose of the boycott was to secure compliance by both civic and business leaders with a lengthy list of demands for equality and racial justice. The boycott was largely supported by speeches encouraging nonparticipants to join the common cause and by nonviolent picketing, but some acts and threats of violence did occur. In 1969, respondent white merchants filed suit in Mississippi Chancery Court for injunctive relief a...
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Decided on : Jun-29-1982
General Bldg. Contractors Assn., Inc. v. Pennsylvania - 458 U.S. 375 (1982) U.S. Supreme Court General Bldg. Contractors Assn., Inc. v. Pennsylvania, 458 U.S. 375 (1982) General Building Contractors Association, Inc. v. Pennsylvania No. 81-280 Argued March 3, 1982 Decided June 29, 1982 * 458 U.S. 375 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT Syllabus Respondents -- the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and several black individuals representing a class of racial minorities who are skilled or seek work as operating engineers in the construction industry in Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware -- brought an action in Federal District Court under 42 U.S.C. 1981, seeking to redress alleged racial discrimination in the operation of an exclusive hiring hall established in collective bargaining contracts between the local union representing operating engineers and petitioner trade associations and construction industry employers. Respondents also alleged dis...
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Decided on : Jun-25-1982
Blum v. Yaretsky - 457 U.S. 991 (1982) U.S. Supreme Court Blum v. Yaretsky, 457 U.S. 991 (1982) Blum v. Yaretsky No. 80-1952 Argued March 24, 1982 Decided June 25, 1982 457 U.S. 991 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Syllabus As a participating State in the Medicaid program established by the Social Security Act, New York provides Medicaid assistance to eligible persons who receive care in private nursing homes, which are designated as either "skilled nursing facilities" (SNF's) or "health related facilities" (HRF's), the latter providing less extensive, and generally less expensive, medical care than the former. The nursing homes are directly reimbursed by the State for the reasonable cost of health care services. To obtain Medicaid assistance, an individual must satisfy eligibility standards in terms of income or resources and must seek medically necessary services. As to the latter requirement, federal regulations require each nursing...
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Decided on : Jun-15-1982
..... in maintaining our basic institutions and the lasting impact of its deprivation on the life of the child mark the distinction. the "american people have always regarded education and [the] acquisition of knowledge as matters of supreme importance." meyer v. nebraska, 262 u. s. 390 , 262 u. s. 400 (1923). we have recognized "the public schools as a most vital civic .....
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Decided on : Jun-14-1982
..... .s. at 415 u. s. 259 . [ footnote 12 ] "such a power in the states could produce nothing but discord and mutual irritation, and they very clearly do not possess it." passenger cases, 7 how. 283, 48 u. s. 492 (1849) (taney, c.j., dissenting). [ footnote 13 ] starns v. malkerson, 326 f.supp. 234 (minn.1970), summarily aff'd, 401 u.s .....
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Decided on : Jun-01-1982
..... 3 (1953). [ footnote 3/13 ] the other two decisions, fry v. united states, 421 u. s. 542 (1975), and washington v. washington state commercial passenger fishing vessel assn., 443 u. s. 658 (1979), are readily distinguishable. fry upheld a temporary wage freeze as applied to state and local governmental employees. as we subsequently ..... interfere with a state's sovereign right to determine and control the jurisdictional requirements of its own courts"). the court also cites washington v. washington state commercial passenger fishing vessel assn., 443 u. s. 658 (1979), to support its holding. ante at 456 u. s. 762 . the case stands for the unremarkable ..... were held restricted, with respect to state employees, to the wage and salary limitations established by the economic stabilization act of 1970. washington v. washington state commercial passenger fishing vessel assn., 443 u. s. 658 (1979), acknowledged a federal court's power to enforce a treaty by compelling a state agency to "prepare" .....
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Decided on : May-17-1982
Finnegan v. Leu - 456 U.S. 431 (1982) U.S. Supreme Court Finnegan v. Leu, 456 U.S. 431 (1982) Finnegan v. Leu No. 80-2150 Argued February 24, 1982 Decided May 17, 1982 456 U.S. 431 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Sections 101(a)(1) and (2) of Title I of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (Act) guarantee equal voting rights and rights of free speech and assembly to "[e]very member of a labor organization," and 609 of Title VI makes it unlawful for a union "to fine, suspend, expel, or otherwise discipline any of its members for exercising any right to which he is entitled" under the Act. Section 102 provides that any person whose rights under Title I have been infringed by any violation thereof may bring an action in federal district court for appropriate relief. Petitioners were discharged from their appointed positions as business agents for respondent local union by respondent union president following...
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Decided on : May-03-1982
..... plaintiff? second, is there any indication of legislative intent, explicit or implicit, either to create such a remedy or to deny one? see, e.g., national railroad passenger corp. v. national assn. of railroad passengers, 414 u. s. 453 , 414 u. s. 458 , 414 u. s. 460 (1974) ( amtrak ). third, is it consistent with the underlying ..... e. inc. v. united states, 359 u. s. 464 , 359 u. s. 474 (1959) ("the question is, of course, one of statutory intent"); national railroad passenger corp. v. national assn. of railroad passengers, 414 u. s. 453 , 414 u. s. 457 -458 (1974) ( amtrak ) ("it goes without saying . . . that the inference of such a private cause ..... the products or by-products thereof, or (b) determining the price basis of any transaction in interstate commerce in such commodity, or (c) delivering any such commodity sold, shipped, or received in interstate commerce for the fulfillment thereof -- " "(a) to cheat or defraud or attempt to cheat or defraud such other person;" "(b) willfully to .....
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Decided on : Apr-27-1982
..... the permit application or attach conditions to the final permit. 33 u.s.c. 1341. as the district court construed the fwpca, the release of ordnance from aircraft or from ships into navigable waters is a discharge of pollutants, even though the epa, which administers the act, had not promulgated any regulations setting effluent levels or providing for the issuance of .....
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