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..... permit must be promptly reported to the united states purchasing agent." between june 30 and december 1, 1865, 1,922 3/4 bales of this cotton (on plantations in lowndes and other counties in mississippi) were seized by treasury agents (appointed by the secretary of the treasury to collect cotton which had been sold to the ..... and the citizens of other states and other parts of the united states" was made unlawful until the insurrection ceased or was suppressed. the fifth section of the act provided that "the president may, in his discretion, license and permit commercial intercourse with any such part of said state or section, the inhabitants of which are ..... and controlled by the insurgent forces. a portion of the argument of counsel is addressed to the question whether, notwithstanding the repeal of the fifth section of the act of july 13, 1861, authorizing the president, in his discretion, to license or permit commercial relations in any state or section in insurrection, he could not, .....
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..... might cause it irreparable damage. for the reasons given below, we find that argument untenable. appellee, grand central aircraft company, is a california corporation which was engaged, in 1951, in the production and repair of aircraft equipment in glendale, california, and tucson, arizona. november 4, 1952, the wage stabilization board [ footnote 3 ] filed a complaint ..... .) 1 u.s.c. (1952 ed.) 109. we find no express, or even implied, provision in the act contrary to the policy of the general savings statute. all of the alleged violations here involved occurred in 1951. the substantive provisions of title iv relating to wage stabilization and the supporting orders fixing the wage ceilings here at ..... . see s.rep.no. 2250, 81st cong., 2d sess. 4-5, 20-40. [ footnote 16 ] the 1950 act, generally, was to terminate june 30, 1952. title iv, as to price and wage stabilization, was to expire june 30, 1951. 64 stat. 822. the latter date was extended to april 30, 1953. 66 stat. 306, 67 stat. 131. .....
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..... & rockfish r. co., 289 i.c.c. 49. that order dismissed a complaint filed by the united states on november 20, 1951, against several named railroads charging them with violations of the interstate commerce act. the district court, one judge dissenting, dismissed the complaint. 132 f.supp. 34. we noted probable jurisdiction. 350 u.s. ..... 930. since may 1, 1951, the railroads have refused to pay an allowance to the army for the wharfage and handling [ footnote 1 ..... the railroads the single rate covering both transportation and pier services. the government was not required to pay anything in addition to this single rate. in 1951, however, with the outbreak of the korean conflict, the government found it necessary to operate directly certain portions of the piers in order to facilitate the .....
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..... common pleas court contains separately designated sections which are easily divisible. [ footnote 2/3 ] since the majority opinion does not reach any issue under the national labor relations act, 29 u.s.c. 141 et seq., neither do i. my declaration concerning the validity of the injunction is concerned with the first and fourteenth amendments. i do ..... s. 20 (1957), and (2) that the picketing herein was protected as a "concerted activit[y] for . . . mutual aid or protection" by 7 of the national labor relations act, as amended, 49 stat. 452, 29 u.s.c. 157. because of our disposition of the case, we do not reach either contention. [ footnote 2 ] such congestion as ..... u. s. 470 (1950) (self-employer union shop). compare nlrb v. denver bldg. & const. trades council, 341 u. s. 675 (1951), and international bro. of electrical workers v. nlrb, 341 u. s. 694 (1951). those cases are not applicable here, because they all turned on the purpose for which the picketing was carried on, not its location. in .....
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..... general, 381 u. s. 301 (1965). [ footnote 4/15 ] the fairness doctrine was recognized and implicitly approved by congress in the 1959 amendments to 15 of the communications act.act of sept. 14, 1959, 1, 73 stat. 557, 47 u.s.c. 315(a). as amended, 315(a) recognizes the obligation of broadcasters "to operate in the ..... enjoys less first amendment protection than speech directed at the discussion of controversial issues of public importance. see, e.g., breard v. alexandria, 341 u. s. 622 (1951); valentine v. chrestensen, 316 u. s. 52 (1942). the first amendment values of individual self-fulfillment through expression and individual participation in public debate are central to our ..... broadcast discussion of public issues. see, e.g., fowler v. rhode island, 345 u. s. 67 (1953); niemotko v. maryland, 340 u. s. 268 (1951). this risk is inherent in the court of appeals' remand requiring regulations and procedures to sort out requests to be heard -- a process involving the very editing that licensees .....
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..... against discrimination in federally funded projects contained in 601 is more than a simple paraphrasing of what the fifth or fourteenth amendment would require. the act's proponents plainly considered title vi consistent with their view of the constitution, and they sought to provide an effective weapon to implement that view ..... , undercuts the likelihood that congress intended to limit voluntary efforts to implement similar measures. for example, 7(a) of the national science foundation authorization act, 1977, provides: "the director of the national science foundation shall initiate an intensive search for qualified women, members of minority groups, and handicapped ..... race is consistent with the equal protection component of the fifth amendment, and therefore with the fourteenth amendment. to the extent that congress acted pursuant to 5 of the fourteenth amendment, those cases impliedly recognize that congress was empowered under that provision to accord preferential treatment to victims .....
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..... their own.'" national woodwork, supra, at 386 u. s. 626 -627 (quoting nlrb v. denver bldg. trades council, 341 u. s. 675 , 341 u. s. 692 (1951)). such pressures are what the statutes were intended to protect against. moreover, from this standpoint, the rules are work-acquisitive; however pure the motives of the union might be, the ..... that the court has arrived at the contrary result. in my view, congress did not intend the union activities at issue to be sanctioned by the national labor relations act. the rules on containers, an agreement entered into between various shipowners and the international longshoremen's association (ila), begin by proclaiming their intent to "preserve the work ..... 511 . b we accept the board's factual findings as supported by substantial evidence, universal camera corp. v. nlrb, 340 u. s. 474 (1951), and are mindful of the rule that the board's construction of the act is due our deference. see, e.g., beth israel hospital v. nlrb, 437 u. s. 483 , 437 u. s. 500 -501 ( .....
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Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Writ Petition (Civil) No 131 of 2013 Dr Narendra Gupta ... Petitioner(s) Versus Union of India & Ors ... Respondent(s) JUDGMENT Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, CJI1 A public interest litigation has been instituted by Dr Narendra Gupta in 2013 highlighting the fact that in the States of Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, in particular, unnecessary hysterectomies were carried out under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana as well as other government schemes related to healthcare. The petition also highlights the involvement of private hospitals in performing such hysterectomies. The Union Ministry of Health and Family 2 Welfare1 is the first respondent, while the States of Bihar, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh are impleaded as the second, third and fourth respondents respectively. Based on his field work, the petitioner has brought to our notice the fact that women, who should not have been subjected to hysterectomies and to who...
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..... involved, because the government concedes that these activities ordinarily constitute "preliminary" or "postliminary" activities excluded from compensable work time as contemplated in the act. it contends, however, that such activities in the circumstances of this case are an integral and indispensable part of the production of batteries, the ..... "principal activity" in which these employees were engaged, and are therefore compensable under the relevant provisions of the act. the petitioners own and operate a plant where they are engaged in manufacturing automotive-type wet storage batteries which they sell in interstate commerce. ..... of tennessee requires facilities for this purpose. tenn.code ann. (williams 1934), 1952 supp., section 5788.15. in addition, the tennessee workmen's compensation act, tenn.code ann. (williams 1934), 1952 supp., sections 6851-6901, which covers petitioners, makes lead poisoning a compensable occupational disease, section 6852(d). .....
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..... resale price maintenance, hudson distributors, inc. v. eli lilly & co., 377 u. s. 386 (1964), schwegmann v. calvert distillers corp., 341 u. s. 384 (1951); to professional football, radovich v. national football league, 352 u. s. 445 (1957), and to racial discrimination by owners and managers of terminal restaurants, boynton v. virginia, ..... to affect interstate commerce. we therefore conclude that the civil rights cases have no relevance to the basis of decision here, where the act explicitly relies upon the commerce power and where the record is filled with testimony of obstructions and restraints resulting from the discriminations found to be ..... its clientele to white persons, three-fourths of whom are transient interstate travelers, sued for declaratory relief and to enjoin enforcement of the civil rights act of 1964, contending that the prohibition of racial discrimination in places of public accommodation affecting commerce exceeded congress' powers under the commerce clause and .....
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