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Scheidler Vs. National Organization for Women, Inc.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... they claim that, because the definitions of robbery or extortion (or related attempts or conspiracies) already encompass robbery or extortion that take place through acts of violence (or related threats), see 1951(b)(1) and (2), there would be no reason for 1951(a) to contain its physical violence clause unless congress intended to create a freestanding offense. ..... we decided that [w]hatever the outer boundaries may be, the effort to characterize petitioners actions here as an obtaining of property from respondents is well beyond them. id . ..... 200 , 209 (1993) (alteration made in keene ; quoting fourco glass co. v. ..... to move in trade or commerce (a) obtains or attempts to obtain, by the use of or attempt to use or threat to use force, violence, or coercion, the payment of money or other valuable considerations, or the purchase or rental of property or protective services, not including, however, the payment of wages of a bona-fide employer to a bona-fide employee; or (b) obtains the property of another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right; or (c) commits or threatens to commit an act of physical violence or physical injury to a person or property in furtherance .....

Reid Vs. Covert

Court : US Supreme Court

..... " nevertheless of late time divers commissions under your majesty's great seal have issued forth by which certain persons have been assigned and appointed commissioners with power and authority to proceed within the land, according to the justice of martial law, against such soldiers or mariners, or other dissolute persons joining with them as should commit any murder, robbery, felony, mutiny or other outrage or misdemeanor whatsoever ..... extraterritorial jurisdiction at the beginning of the 15th century when the complete conquest of the byzantine empire by the turks and the establishment of the ottoman empire substantially altered political relations between christian europe and the near east. ..... for many purposes constructively as territory of the united states, yet persons on board of such vessels, whether officers, sailors, or passengers, cannot invoke the protection of the provisions referred to until brought within the actual territorial boundaries of the united states. . . . ..... in that they do not permit the disciplining of these three classes of camp followers in time of peace in places to which the civil jurisdiction of the united states does not extend and where it is contrary to international policy to subject such persons to the local jurisdiction, or where, for other reasons, the law of the local jurisdiction is not applicable, thus leaving these classes practically without liability to punishment for their unlawful acts under such circumstances -- as, for ..... 19, 1951), .....

Kirby Forest Indus. Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the parties would not be permitted to question the adjudicated value of the tract as of the date of its original valuation; they would be limited to the presentation of evidence and arguments on the issue of how the market value of the property altered between that date and the date on which the judgment was paid by the government. ..... 257 should be assessed when activities of the government during the pendency of the condemnation proceedings have so altered the condition of the property as to reduce the price it could fetch on the open market on the date of the taking. ..... on august 13, 1981, after holding a hearing to consider those objections, the district court entered judgment awarding petitioner compensation in the amount recommended by the commission, plus interest at a rate of six percent for the period from august 21, 1978 (the date the complaint had been filed), to the date the government deposited the adjudicated value of the land with the court. ..... the statute directed the secretary of the interior to acquire the land within the boundaries of the preserve. 16 u.s.c. ..... united states, supra, we were called upon to determine the date on which the government, in an exercise of its eminent domain power under the flood control act of 1928, ch. ..... the adoption in 1951 of rule 71a capped an effort to establish a uniform set of procedures governing all federal condemnation actions. .....

Naacp Vs. New York

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 345 appeal from the united states district court for the district of columbia syllabus sections 4 and 5 of the voting rights act of 1965, as amended, are designed to prohibit the use of tests or devices, or the alteration of voting qualifications or procedures, when the purpose or effect is to deprive a citizen of his right to vote. ..... carry any story about the present suit; (3) that, to the best of his knowledge, neither co-counsel nor any of the appellants knew of the suit prior to march 21; (4) that he did not receive new york's memorandum in opposition to the motion to intervene until april 13, after the district court already had ruled on the motion; (5) that he did not learn of the consent by the united states to the entry of judgment until april 5; and (6) that the motion to intervene, as well as the papers in the 5 action in the southern district of new york ..... [ footnote 12 ] while the present case was pending in the district court, the new york legislature on january 14, 1972, completed its work of redrawing assembly and senate district lines and enacted legislation altering those boundaries. ..... 20 (1951); cascade natural gas corp. v. .....

Subodh Gopal Bose Vs. Brojendra Kishore Roy

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1954Cal90

..... passed or order made, before the date of commencement of this act, for the ejectment of any person from any land in pursuance of section 37 or section 52 of the said act shall, if the decree or order could not have been validly passed or made had this act been in operation at the date of the passing or making thereof, be void : provided that nothing in this section shall affect any decree or order in execution whereof the possession of the land in respect of which the decree or order was passed ..... on 15-3-1950, introduces a fundamental change in the law as regards the rights of purchasers at auction sales for arrears of revenue by replacing section 37 of act 11 of 1859 by these provisions:'(1) the purchaser of an entire estate in the permanently settled districts of west bengal sold under this act for the recovery of arrears due on account of the same, shall acquire the estate free from all encumbrances which may have been imposed after the time of settlement and shall be entitled to avoid ..... the thak map and the position of the land in dispute as regards the distance from the mouza boundary.in my opinion, this difference is an immaterial circumstance and even if the position had been that the learned judge did not consider this difference, i would not have considered it a mistake in law or procedure within the meaning of section 100 of the ..... on the question to what extent this alteration in the law ..... the appeal was disposed of by the supreme court by their judgment dated 17-10-1951 .....

United States Vs. Muniz

Court : US Supreme Court

..... provides: "in the case of the death of any person by the neglect or wrongful act of another within a national park or other place subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the united states, within the exterior boundaries of any state, such right of action shall exist as though the place were under the jurisdiction of the state within whose exterior boundaries such place may be; and in any action brought to recover on account of injuries sustained in any such place, the rights of the parties shall be governed by the laws of the state within the exterior boundaries of which it may ..... and consents to have its liability for such torts determined in accordance with the same rules of law as apply to an action in the supreme court against an individual or a corporation, and the state hereby assumes liability for such acts, and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the court of claims to hear and determine all claims against the state to recover damages for injuries to property or for personal injury caused by the misfeasance or negligence of the officers or employees of the state while acting as such officer or employee. . . . ..... finally, the alteration of a compensation scheme 15 years after congress passed the federal tort claims act does not provide reliable insight into the then existing congressional intent. ..... , july 26, 1951. .....

imbler Vs. Pachtman

Court : US Supreme Court

..... , under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any inhabitant of any state, territory, or district to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the constitution or laws of the united states, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such inhabitant being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and ..... imbler claimed that pachtman had prosecuted him with knowledge of a lie detector test that had "cleared" imbler, and that pachtman had used at trial a police artist's sketch of hasson's killer made shortly after the crime and allegedly altered to resemble imbler more closely after the investigation had focused upon him. ..... this immunity applies even when the judge is accused of acting maliciously and corruptly, and it" "is not for the protection or benefit of a malicious or corrupt judge, but for the benefit of the public, whose interest it is that the judges should be at liberty to coercise their functions with independence and without fear of consequences. ..... 430 iv it remains to delineate the boundaries of our holding. ..... 367 (1951), [ footnote 2/1 ] and state page 424 u. s. ..... 382 -383 (1951) (douglas, j. .....

American Broadcasting Cos. Vs. Writers Guild

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 8(b)(1)(b) or any other provision of the national labor relations act permits such a radical alteration of the natural balance of page 437 u. s ..... supervisory functions including the adjustment of grievances on collective bargaining as required, and did not perform rank and file ..... performing managerial and supervisory services for their employers during the strike, including the adjustment of employee grievances and participation in collective bargaining," and had thus "coerced and restrained those employers in the selection of representatives for collective bargaining and the adjustment of grievances within the meaning of section 8(b)(1)(b); [ footnote 13 ]" and that, by charging, trying, and disciplining the hyphenates who chose to work and who, the administrative law judge found, "performed managerial and ..... indeed, after focusing on the purposes of the section, the court in fp&l; delineated the boundaries of when that "carryover" effect would violate 8(b)(1)(b): whenever such discipline may adversely affect the supervisor's conduct in his capacity as a grievance adjustor or ..... (1951). .....

United States Vs. MartIn Linen Supply Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... however, now that congress has removed the statutory limitations to appeal and the relevant inquiry turns on the reach of the double jeopardy clause itself, it has become "necessary to take a closer look at the policies underlying the clause in order to determine more precisely the boundaries of the government's appeal rights in criminal cases. ..... 565 (e) rule 29 contemplated no artificial distinctions between situations where the judge enters a judgment of acquittal prior to submission of the case to the jury under rule 29(a), or after submission but prior to the jury's return of a verdict under rule 29(b), and the jury is thereafter discharged, and the situation involved here, where the judge chose to await the outcome of the jury's deliberations and, upon its failure to reach a verdict, acted on a timely motion for acquittal after the jury's discharge. ..... [ footnote 12 ] rather, the notes of the advisory committee have confirmed that rule 29 intends no substantive alteration in the role of judge or jury, but creates a purely formal modification of the directed verdict device in order "to make the nomenclature accord with the realities. ..... if a motion for judgment of acquittal is made at the close of all the evidence, the court may reserve decision on the motion, submit the case to the jury and decide the motion either before the jury returns a verdict or after it returns a verdict of guilty or is discharged without having returned a verdict. ..... 395 (1951) (jackson, j. .....