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New York Vs. Cathedral Academy

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 138) that authorized reimbursement to nonpublic schools for state-mandated recordkeeping and testing services, and permanently enjoining any payments under the act, including reimbursement for expenses that such schools had already incurred in the last half of the 1971-1972 school year. ..... the court's order permanently enjoined any payments under the act, including reimbursement for expenses that schools had already incurred in the last half of the 1971-1972 school year. ..... [ footnote 2 ] at oral argument, the assistant solicitor general of new york said that the state of new york frequently defends against claims for payment on the ground that the enabling act authorizing suit in the court of claims is unconstitutional. ..... [ footnote 1 ] the order permanently enjoined "all persons acting for or on behalf of the state of new york . . . ..... in april of 1972, a three-judge united states district court for the southern district of new york declared unconstitutional new york's mandated services act, 1970 n.y.laws, page 434 u. s. ..... 996 in the court of claims, and the state defended on the ground that the act was unconstitutional. ..... thus the act explicitly authorized what the district court's injunction had prohibited: reimbursement to sectarian schools for their expenses of performing state-mandated services through the 1971-1972 academic year. ..... the act "recognize[d] a moral obligation to provide a remedy whereby . . . .....

Rosebud Sioux Tribe Vs. Kneip

Court : US Supreme Court

..... . 258, suggests that congress viewed this land as disestablished immediately: "that all lands herein ceded and opened to settlement under this act, remaining undisposed of at the expiration of four years from the taking effect of this act, shall be sold and disposed of for cash, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the secretary of the interior, not more than six hundred and ..... 584 certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the eighth circuit syllabus both the language and legislative history of the acts of 1904, 1907, and 1910, whereby land in certain counties in south dakota located within the boundaries of the rosebud sioux reservation as defined in an 1889 treaty was required to be ceded by the ..... . its indifference is perhaps best manifested by the fact that, in legislation concerning the reservation enacted immediately subsequent to the rosebud acts, congress at times referred to the opened counties as part of the reservation, and at times referred to them as ..... 41 ] the secretary of the interior believed that "the views of the indians should be procured before the bill is finally acted on," although recognizing "the fact that congress can enact legislation of this character without the consent of the indians interested. ..... equally plausible that congress did not explain the effect of the 1904 act because it assumed that the act would have precisely the same effect as earlier nonpurchase surplus land acts such as those considered in mattz: the lands would be .....

Sunkist Growers, Inc. Vs. Winckler and Smith

Court : US Supreme Court

..... held that any objection to at least one of the conspiracy instructions was waived; that, in any event, different agricultural cooperatives combining together are not entitled to claim a total immunity for acts which they might do unilaterally and individually; and that the common ownership of sunkist, exchange orange, and exchange lemon did not prevent the finding of an illegal conspiracy among them. ..... orange products company, can accordingly combine or conspire together or with others to violate sections 1 and 2 of the sherman act as charged in the first and second causes of action, subject to other instructions concerning the capper-volstead act, and section 6 of the clayton act, and the exemptions contained therein. ..... " the instructions on the clayton and capper-volstead acts merely stated that the cooperatives could lawfully have a monopoly of the ..... and the legislative history of the act reveals several references to the sunkist organization -- then called the california fruit growers exchange and numbering 11,000 members -- including a suggestion by senator capper that this was the ..... 28 the capper-volstead act sets out this immunity in greater specificity: "that persons engaged in the production of agricultural products as farmers, planters, ranchmen, dairymen, nut or fruit growers may act together in associations, corporate or otherwise, with or without capital stock, in collectively processing, preparing for market, handling, and marketing in interstate and foreign commerce .....

Blau Vs. Lehman

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 403 certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the second circuit syllabus petitioner, a stockholder in a corporation with stock registered on a national securities exchange, sued under 16(b) of the securities exchange act of 1934 to recover on behalf of the corporation from one of its directors and a partnership of which he was a member "short-swing" profits realized by them on the purchase and sale by the partnership of ..... 415 ruling, that firm can make a rich harvest on the "inside information" which 16 of the act covers because each partner need account only for his distributive share of the firm's profits on "inside ..... agree that petitioner and the commission present persuasive policy arguments that the act should be broadened in this way to prevent "the unfair use of information" more effectively than can be accomplished by leaving the act so as to require forfeiture of profits only by those specifically designated ..... its impact than the result i urge here, as it held a partnership could be criminally liable under the motor carrier act -- the court said, "congress has specifically included partnerships within the definition of 'person' in a large number of regulatory acts, thus showing its intent to treat partnerships as entities." id., p. ..... go so far as to suggest that 16(b)'s forfeiture of profits should be extended to include all persons realizing "short-swing" profits who either act on the basis of "inside" information or have the possibility of "inside" information. .....

Joseph Burstyn, Inc. Vs. Wilson

Court : US Supreme Court

..... sacrilege against sacred places: to violate the immunity of churches and other sacred places "as far as this is still in force"; to commit a crime such as homicide, suicide, bloody attack there; to break by sexual act a vow of chastity there; to bury an infidel, heretic, or excommunicate in churches or cemeteries canonically established; or to put the sacred place to a profane use, as a secular courtroom, public market, banquet hall, stable, etc ..... thus, the robbing of churches or of graves, the abuse of sacred vessels and altars by employing them for unhallowed purposes, the plundering and misappropriation of alms and donations, are acts of sacrilege, which in the ancient church were punished with great severity. ..... it is true that spelman, writing "the history and fate of sacrilege" in 1632, included in "sacrilege" acts whereby "the very deity is invaded, profaned, or robbed of its glory. . . . ..... the current printing of funk & wagnalls' new standard dictionary of the english language, first copyrighted in 1913, carries exactly the same definition of "sacrilege" except that the first definition has been expanded to read: "the act of violating or profaning anything sacred, including sacramental vows . ..... " [ footnote 2/27 ] in these cases, as in others under the act, the board's reported opinion confines itself to a bare finding that the film was or was not "sacrilegious," without so much as a description of the allegedly offensive matter, or even of the film as a whole to enlighten the .....

Adams Vs. United States Ex Rel. Mccann

Court : US Supreme Court

..... " it hardly occurred to the framers of the original constitution and of the bill of rights that an accused, acting in obedience to the dictates of self-interest or the promptings of conscience, should be prevented from surrendering his liberty by admitting his guilt. ..... a plea of guilt expresses the defendant's belief that his acts were proscribed by law, and that he cannot successfully be defended. ..... uninterruptedly from the first judiciary act (section 14 of the act of september 24, 1789, 1 stat. ..... 298 , was expressly recognized and acted upon by congress in the act of march 8, 1934, c. ..... we should be even more strict and exacting in case the waiver is made by a layman acting on his own. ..... but we are asked here to hold that an accused person cannot waive trial by jury, no matter how freely and understandingly he surrenders that right, unless he acts on a lawyer's advice. .....

Lyman Vs. Bank of the United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... or either of them, had knowledge of the condition of said debts, and that they had been compromised and discharged, or either of them, at the time of the purchase, and that they derived such knowledge by and while acting in their official capacity as directors, or as committee of said branch bank at burlington, that such knowledge would not affect the other defendants, or defeat or affect the right of the defendants to have a deduction from the plaintiffs' claim ..... warner, whose testimony proved that said paper was in the handwriting of thomas hockley, who is mentioned in the depositions introduced by the plaintiffs, and that said hockley died in november, 1836, and continued to act as the agent for the plaintiffs, in the matters relative to the branch bank at burlington aforesaid, up to the time of his death; and the defendants claimed that this paper was furnished to them, at the time of the ..... the defendants objected to the testimony of said mifflin, under the 10th interrogatory, tending to prove the signature of wyllys lyman to paper or exhibit marked e, on the ground that neither the acts of lyman, done by him in his official capacity as director of the branch bank at burlington, nor any knowledge derived by him in the performance of his duties as such director, could affect the other defendants, or in any way affect ..... at the time when this was done, two of the defendants were directors of the branch, and acted in the matter. .....

Exen Industries Vs. the Chief Controller of Imports and Exports and or ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1971SC1025; (1972)3SCC176; 1971(III)LC219(SC)

..... of future licences to actual users inasmuch as the same has to depend on the basis laid down and contained in paragraph 73 of the hand book the appellants claimed in their petition that the licensing authorities are bound to act judicially and reasonably while granting or refusing licences in exercise of the discretion vested in them by law and they could refuse the licence under the provisions of clause 6 of the imports (control) order, 1955 and under ..... the high court can reject a petition in limine if it lakes the view that the authorities whose acts were called in question had not acted improperly or if it felt that the petition raised complicated questions of fact for determination which could not be properly adjudicated upon in a proceeding under article 226 of the constitution. .....

Sh. Ganesh Prasad Dube Vs. State of Bihar and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1972SC2396; 1973(0)BLJR422; (1971)1SCC691; [1971]3SCR726

..... the high court can reject a petition in limine if it takes the view that the authorities whose acts were called in question had not acted improperly or if it felt that the petition raised complicated questions of fact for determination which could not be properly adjudicated upon in a proceeding under article 226 of the constitution.similarly in gyan chand and ors. v. ..... the appellant was appointed by the order dated march 21, 1968, by the state of bihar temporarily to act as director of public instruction, bihar. .....

Lamar Vs. Mcculloch

Court : US Supreme Court

..... abandoned property" in said state, in pursuance of the statutes cited, and was "not seized by any agent or officer of the united states as such abandoned or captured property, and that all acts done" by the defendant "respecting the said cotton were not done by him, through the agents aforesaid, as the secretary of the treasury of the united states, and in the administration of, and ..... as to indicate that it was "government cotton," and to warrant the defendant in fairly regarding it as cotton which had been "captured" within the act, and we think the defendant had the right to treat it as cotton to be sold under the act and to see that its proceeds were paid into the treasury to await adjudication by the court of claims, and was not called upon to take ..... . even though the property taken was private property, if it was taken by an officer or agent of the united states under a claim that it was abandoned or captured property in the administration of the act of march 12, 1863, or in virtue thereof, or under color thereof, the jurisdiction of every court but the court of claims, in respect to every mode of redress, is taken away when it ..... mississippi, as abandoned property, into the possession of one hart, a special agent appointed by the secretary of the treasury to receive and collect abandoned or captured property under the act of march 12, 1863, mississippi having been designated as in insurrection by the proclamation of july 1, 1863; that the cotton was in possession of the defendant at st .....