Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : May-25-1953
Times-Picayune Pub. Co. v. United States - 345 U.S. 594 (1953) U.S. Supreme Court Times-Picayune Pub. Co. v. United States, 345 U.S. 594 (1953) Times-Picayune Publishing Co. v. United States No. 374 Argued March 11, 1953 Decided May 25, 1953 * 345 U.S. 594 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA Syllabus A publishing company owns and publishes in New Orleans a morning and an evening newspaper. Its sole competitor in the daily newspaper field is an independent evening newspaper. Classified and general display advertisers in the company's publications may purchase only combined insertions appearing in both its morning and evening papers, not in either separately. The United States brought a civil suit against the company under the Sherman Act, challenging the use of these "unit" contracts as an unreasonable restraint of trade in violation of 1, and as an attempt to monopolize trade in violation of 2. Held: the record in this cas...
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Decided on : Jun-15-1953
Barrows v. Jackson - 346 U.S. 249 (1953) U.S. Supreme Court Barrows v. Jackson, 346 U.S. 249 (1953) Barrows v. Jackson No. 517 Argued April 28-29, 1953 Decided June 15, 1953 346 U.S. 249 CERTIORARI TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT Syllabus The enforcement of a covenant forbidding use and occupancy of real estate by non-Caucasians, by an action at law in a state court to recover damages from a co-covenantor for a breach of the covenant, is barred by the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. Pp. 346 U. S. 251 -260. (a) The action of a state court in thus sanctioning a racial restrictive covenant would constitute state action within the prohibition of the Fourteenth Amendment. P. 346 U. S. 254 . (b) State action in allowing damages for breach of a covenant not to permit non-Caucasians to use and occupy their property would deprive such non-Caucasians, unidentified but identifiable, of equal protection of the laws in vio...
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