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Decided on : Feb-20-1911
Roughton v. Knight - 219 U.S. 537 (1911) U.S. Supreme Court Roughton v. Knight, 219 U.S. 537 (1911) Roughton v. Knight No. 711 Submitted January 6, 1911 Decided February 20, 1911 219 U.S. 537 I N ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Syllabus As the Forest Reserve provision of the Sundry Civil Act of June 4, 1897, c. 2, 30 Stat. 36, did not prescribe the method which those entitled to avail of its provision should pursue, it was competent for the Secretary of the Interior to adopt the rules and regulations, which this Court has already held to be reasonable and valid, and entitled to respect and obedience. Cosmos Co. v. Gray Eagle Oil Co., 190 U. S. 301 . One not following the rules and regulations adopted by the Land Department for exchange of lands under the Forest Reserve Act and not accompanying his relinquishment deed with a proper selection in lieu of the land relinquished, and whose relinquishment was returned to him by the Department, did not be...
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Decided on : Jan-03-1911
Kentucky Union Co. v. Kentucky - 219 U.S. 140 (1911) U.S. Supreme Court Kentucky Union Co. v. Kentucky, 219 U.S. 140 (1911) Kentucky Union Company v. Kentucky Nos. 22, 47, 48 Argued October 28, 31, 1910 Decided January 3, 1911 219 U.S. 140 ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY Syllabus A state may choose its own methods of taxation and form and method of enforcing payment so far as federal power is concerned, subject only to the restrictions of the federal Constitution. Where the highest court of the state has held that provisions that might render an act unconstitutional are inoperative, and the elimination of those provisions does not affect the remainder of the act, this Court is bound by such construction, and will construe the act as though stripped of such provisions. An ex post facto law and a retroactive law are different things. Laws of a retroactive nature imposing taxes or providing remedies for their assessment and collection and not impair...
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Weyerhaeuser v. Hoyt - 219 U.S. 380 (1911) U.S. Supreme Court Weyerhaeuser v. Hoyt, 219 U.S. 380 (1911) Weyerhaeuser v. Hoyt No. 24 Argued April 27, 28, 1910 Restored to docket for reargument December 19, 1910 Reargued January 19, 20, 1911 Decided February 20, 1911 219 U.S. 380 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT Syllabus It was the purpose of Congress, as evidenced by the original Northern Pacific Land Grant Act of July 2, 1864, c. 217, 13 Stat. 365, and the joint resolution of May 31, 1870, 16 Stat. 378, extending the indemnity limits, to confer substantial rights to the lands within the indemnity limits in lieu of those lost within place limits. The right of the company to lieu lands lawfully embraced in selections filed with the Secretary of the Interior excluded lands to which rights of others had attached before the selection and also excluded Page 219 U. S. 381 the right of others to appropriate lands so embraced in such selections pe...
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Decided on : May-15-1911
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States - 221 U.S. 1 (1911) U.S. Supreme Court Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910) Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States Argued March 14, 15, 16, 1910 Restored to docket for reargument April 11, 1910 Reargued January 12, 13, 16, 17, 1911 Decided May 15, 1911 221 U.S. 1 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI Syllabus The Anti-Trust Act of July 2, 1890, c. 647, 26 Stat. 209, should be construed in the light of reason; and, as so construed, it prohibits all contracts and combination which amount to an unreasonable or undue restraint of trade in interstate commerce. The combination of the defendants in this case is an unreasonable and undue restraint of trade in petroleum and its products moving in interstate commerce, and falls within the prohibitions of the act as so construed. Where one of the defendants in a suit, brought by the Government in ...
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Decided on : May-29-1911
Coyle v. Smith - 221 U.S. 559 (1911) U.S. Supreme Court Coyle v. Smith, 221 U.S. 559 (1911) Coyle v. Smith No. 941 Argued April 15, 16, 1911 Decided May 29, 1911 221 U.S. 559 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA Syllabus The power to locate its own seat of government, to change the same, and to appropriate its public money therefor, are essentially state powers beyond the control of Congress. The power given to Congress by Art. IV, 3, of the Constitution is to admit new States to this Union, and relates only to such States as are equal to each other in power and dignity and competency to exert the residuum of sovereignty not delegated to the Federal Government. The constitutional duty of Congress of guaranteeing to each State a republican form of government does not import a power to impose upon a new State, as a condition to its admission to the Union, restrictions which render it unequal to the other States, such as limitations upon its power to locate or...
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Hallowell v. United States - 221 U.S. 317 (1911) U.S. Supreme Court Hallowell v. United States, 221 U.S. 317 (1911) Hallowell v. United States No. 89 Argued March 16, 1911 Decided May 15, 1911 221 U.S. 317 CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT Syllabus The power of the United States to make rules and regulations respecting tribal lands, the title to which it has not parted with, although allotted, is ample. Tiger v. Western Investment Co., ante, p. 221 U. S. 286 . The mere fact that citizenship has been conferred on allottee Indians does not necessarily end the right or duty of the United States to pass laws in their interest as a dependent people, and so held that the prohibitions of the Act of January 30, 1897, c. 109, 29 Stat. 506, against introduction of liquor into Indian country, are within the power of Congress. When, under the Act of August 7, 1882, c. 434, 22 Stat. 341, an allotment in severalty has been made to a tribal India...
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Tiger v. Western Investment Co. - 221 U.S. 286 (1911) U.S. Supreme Court Tiger v. Western Investment Co., 221 U.S. 286 (1911) Tiger v. Western Investment Company No. 60 Argued November 30, December 1, 2, 1910 Restored to docket for reargument January 23, 1911 Reargued March 1, 2, 1911 Decided May 15, 1911 221 U.S. 286 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA Syllabus The obvious purpose of 8 of the Act of May 27, 1908, c.199, 35 Stat. 312, was to continue supervision over the right of full-blood Indians to dispose of lands by will, and to require conveyances of interests of full-blood Indians in inherited lands to be approved by a competent court. When several acts of Congress are passed touching the same subject matter, subsequent legislation may be considered to assist in interpretation of the prior legislation. In passing the Enabling Act for the admission of Oklahoma of June 16, 1906, c. 3335, 34 Stat. 267, Congress preserved the authority of the governm...
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