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..... there in his official character prior to the day fixed for said opening, was thereby disqualified from making a homestead entry immediately upon the lands being opened for settlement. payne, the appellant here, filed his bill of complaint in the district court for the county of logan and territory of oklahoma, first judicial district, against ..... duties of deputy marshal, complainant "had formed no purpose or intention in regard to selecting and taking a homestead when said lands should be duly opened to settlement," nevertheless it was averred elsewhere in the bill that, in reliance on certain opinions and assurances of the commissioner of the general land office and the ..... ., . . ." "will at and after the hour of twelve o'clock, noon, of the twenty-second day of april next, and not before, be open for settlement, under the terms of, and subject to, all the conditions, limitations, and restrictions contained in said act of congress approved march second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and .....
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..... states buckeye check cashing, inc. v . cardegna et al. certiorari to the supreme court of florida no. 04 1264. argued november 29, 2005 decided february 21, 2006 for each deferred-payment transaction respondents entered into with buckeye check cashing, they signed an agreement containing provisions that required binding arbitration to resolve disputes arising out of the agreement. respondents sued in florida ..... court or an arbitrator should consider the claim that a contract containing an arbitration provision is void for illegality. i respondents john cardegna and donna reuter entered into various deferred-payment transactions with petitioner buckeye check cashing (buckeye), in which they received cash in exchange for a personal check in the amount of the cash plus a finance charge. for each .....
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..... 659, created a commission with power to settle the indebtedness. an agreement of settlement was made in which the southern pacific was a participant, and by it assured the payment of the securities provided for in the agreement of settlement between the central pacific railroad company and the government. this participation was contemplated in ..... resulting in the unified control of different roads or systems, naturally competitive, constitute "a menace and a restraint upon that freedom of commerce which congress intended to recognize and protect and which the public is ..... the principle of that decision and of the previous cases upon which it rested was broader than the mere effect upon existing competition between the two systems. such combinations, not the result of normal and natural growth and development, but springing from the formation of holding companies, or stock purchases, .....
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..... might generally affect the various federal benefit systems. such an intent is not to be found either in the 1977 definitional amendment to 659, in which congress expressly stated that "alimony" was not meant to include payments or transfers "in compliance with any community property settlement." on its face, the amendment, 462 ..... state law by a court of competent jurisdiction. such term does not include any payment or transfer of property or its value by an individual to his spouse or former spouse in compliance with any community property settlement, equitable distribution of property, or other division of property between spouse or former spouses ..... meaning of spousal support. that statute states specifically that "alimony" "does not include any payment or transfer of property or its value by an individual to his spouse or former spouse in compliance with any community property settlement, equitable distribution of property, or other division of property between spouses or former spouses." .....
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..... we recognized the standing of a proprietary handler to question the alleged discrimination shown in favor of the cooperative handlers. the producer settlement fund is created to meet allowable deductions by the payment of a part of the minimum price to producers through the market administrator. see note 15 supra. rock royal pointed out that ..... touching the revenue, the public domain, national banks and patents, not until the interstate commerce act of 1887 did congress begin to place economic enterprise under systems of administrative control. these regulatory schemes have varied in the range page 321 u. s. 312 of control exercised by government; they have varied no less ..... it is much more definite and personal than the right of complainants to judicial consideration of their objections to regulations, which this court upheld in columbia broadcasting system v. united states, 316 u. s. 407 . in the present case, a reexamination of the preceding statement of facts and summary of the statute .....
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..... act, a scrutiny that includes supervision of the fees paid by the holding company in connection with the "acquisition." [ footnote 5 ] bond & share's cash payment in settlement of the intra-system claim was incident to the "sale" under 12 and the "acquisition" under 10. and, as noted, all three transactions by bond & share were parts of ..... exchange of its securities for new securities was a "sale" under the act; its receipt of new securities was an "acquisition" under the act; its cash payment in settlement of the intra-system claims was incident to the "sale" and "acquisition"; and all three transactions were parts of the reorganization plan for which bond & share applied for the ..... u. s. 343 the holders of the common stock and of the warrants of electric; and (4) bond & share would pay electric $2,200,000 in settlement of intra-system claims. the plan filed by electric under 11(e) required bond & share to do three things: first, sell or exchange its holdings of electric stock; second, .....
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..... which recited that the provisions of the act of 1871 made it mandatory upon the council to provide for an extensive system of drainage and to recognize the claims and accounts of and make settlements with the mississippi and mexican gulf ship canal company for performing such work, and that the city council deemed certain ..... the scope of the entire legislation, from its inception in 1858 to its close in 1872, was local improvements for the benefit of adjacent property, with payment only through special assessments, and did not contemplate a work of general benefit whose expense was chargeable to the municipality at large. the legislation of 1858, 1859 ..... paid in full." the commissioners were thereafter to levy such uniform assessments upon the superficial or square foot within the drainage section as might be necessary for payment of the work. this statute also provided that, on nonpayment of the assessment, judgment might be recovered therefor in any court of competent jurisdiction, and .....
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..... 636 . 4. under 3019, comp.stat. of idaho, 1919, a company furnishing water for a carey act project by constructing an irrigation system and selling water lights is entitled to a lien for deferred payment on such rights, superior to liens of an operating company for subsequent maintenance and operation charges. p. 274 u. s. 638 . 5 ..... irrigation works. the contract contemplated vesting the control of the irrigation system in the settlers through the medium page 274 u. s. 633 of an operating company, to be organized by the construction company as soon as the lands were thrown open to settlement. it provided that the operating company should issue one share of ..... stock for each water right sold to settlers, and that the remainder should be issued to the construction company pending further sale of water rights, and that the irrigation system, when completed, should be transferred to .....
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..... to respondents that they found no proof of a grant to a private landowner. a 1982 settlement agreement quieted title in the government's favor in return for a payment to respondents. in 1994, respondents sued to set aside the settlement agreement and obtain damages, claiming that they had evidence showing that the land had been granted to ..... the government's position that an "independent action" to set aside a judgment requires an independent source of jurisdiction. the original rule 60(b) established a new system to govern requests to reopen judgments. because it was unclear whether that rule provided the exclusive means for obtaining post judgment relief, the rule was amended in ..... of court had any affect on a court's power. fed. rule civ. proc. 6(c), rescinded 1966. new rule 60(b) 1 sought to establish a new system to govern requests to reopen judgments. the original rule 60(b) provided: "(b) mistake; inadvertence; surprise; excusable neglect. on motion the court, upon such terms as are .....
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..... created; whether the individual employer shall be permitted to become a self-insurer; whether he shall be permitted to deal directly with the employee in making settlement of the compensation to be awarded -- on all these questions the laws of the several states do and properly may differ radically. what methods and means ..... had gained little recognition in the united states. not one of the thirty-seven states or territories which now have workmen's compensation laws had introduced the system. yet the conception and value of compensation laws was not unknown to congress. it then had under consideration the first compensation law for federal employees, ..... , not sporadic; certain, not conjectural; speedy, not delayed; definite as to amount and time of payment, and so distributed over long periods as to insure actual protection against lost or lessened earning capacity. to a system making such provision, and not to wasteful litigation, dependent for success upon the coincidence of fault and the .....
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