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Norman Vs. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 337) which, by 13, ratified and confirmed all the actions, regulations, and orders taken or made by the president and the secretary of the treasury under the act of march 9, 1933, or under 43 of the act of may 12, 1933, and, by 12, with respect to the authority of the president to fix the weight of the gold dollar, provided that it should not be fixed "in any event at more than 60 percentum of its present weight. ..... of paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of 43 of the act entitled 'an act to relieve the existing national economic emergency by increasing agricultural purchasing power, to raise revenue for extraordinary expenses incurred by reason of such emergency, to provide emergency relief with respect to agricultural indebtedness, to provide for the orderly liquidation of joint-stock land banks, and for other purposes,' approved may 12, 1933, is amended to read as follows:" "all coins and currencies of the united states (including federal reserve notes and circulating notes of federal reserve ..... plaintiff, challenging the validity of the joint resolution under the fifth and tenth amendments, and article i, 1, of the constitution of the united states, moved to strike the defense. ..... " the act also amended 11 of the federal reserve act (39 stat. .....

Gomillion Vs. Lightfoot

Court : US Supreme Court

..... that enforcement of the statute, which alters the shape of tuskegee from a square to an uncouth twenty-eight-sided figure, will constitute a discrimination against them in violation of the due process and equal protection clauses of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution and will deny them the right to vote in defiance of the fifteenth amendment. ..... citizens of alabama who were, at the time of this redistricting measure, residents of the city of tuskegee, brought an action in the united states district court for the middle district of alabama for a declaratory judgment that act 140 is unconstitutional, and for an injunction to restrain the mayor and officers of tuskegee and the officials of macon county, alabama, from enforcing the act against them and other negroes similarly ..... that the decision should be rested not on the fifteenth amendment, but rather on the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution. ..... in doing so, since the allegations, if proven, would establish that the inevitable effect of the act would be to deprive negroes of their right to vote on account of their race, contrary to the fifteenth amendment. pp. ..... if all this is so in regard to the constitutional protection of contracts, it should be equally true that, to paraphrase, such power, extensive though it is, is met and overcome by the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the united states, which forbids a state from passing any law which deprives a citizen of his vote .....

The State of Gujarat Vs. Manshankar Prabhashankar Dwivedi and Vallabhd ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1973SC330; 1972CriLJ1247; (1972)2SCC392; [1973]1SCR313

..... it is admitted on behalf of the state that after the amendment made in 1964 under the twelfth clause it is only a person in the service or pay of the government or remunerated by fee or commission for the purpose of any public duty by the government who would fall within the definition of 'public servant' within sub-clause (a) of the twelfth clause. ..... is that even if dwivedi was not punishable under section 161 of the indian penal code with reference to the work in respect of which he accepted an illegal gratification he would nevertheless be liable under section 5(1)(d) of the corruption act because the liability of a public servant has been made absolute and it is wholly immaterial in what capacity he has committed the offence under sub-clause (d) of section 5(1) of the corruption act he need not have obtained for himself any valuable thing or pecuniary advantage as a public servant ..... ' thus sub-clause (a) of the 12th clause after the amendment corresponds substantially to the last part of the old ninth clause with this change that the expression 'every officer' has now been substituted by the words 'every person' and after the words 'performance of any public duty' it has been added 'by the government'.8. ..... before the amendment made in section 21 by act 40 of 1964 a person who is appointed an examiner and who receives remuneration by fee would fall within the term 'public servant' if he is holder of an office. .....

Will Vs. Michigan Dept. of State Police

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 167 (1961) -- it was unclear whether the statute applied at all to action not authorized by the state, and the enduring significance of the first cases construing the fourteenth amendment, pursuant to which 1 was passed, lies in their conclusion that the prohibitions of this amendment do not reach private action. ..... the court having constructed an edifice for the purposes of the eleventh amendment on the theory that the state is always the real party in interest in a 1983 official-capacity action against a state officer, i would think the majority would be impelled to conclude that the state is a "person" under 1983. ..... petitioner contends that the congressional debates on 1 of the 1871 act indicate that 1983 was intended to extend to the full reach of the fourteenth amendment, and thereby to provide a remedy " against all forms of official violation of federally protected rights. ..... a few months after the ratification of the thirteenth amendment on december 6, 1865, congress, on april 9, 1866, enacted the civil rights act of 1866. . . . ..... it rejected at least two attempts to amend the act and immunize state and local governments from awards. .....

Sri Srinivasa theatre and ors. Vs. Government of Tamil Nadu and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1992SC999; JT1992(2)SC312; 1992(1)SCALE643; (1992)2SCC643; [1992]2SCR164; [1993]89STC201(SC)

..... , admission system) the rate of tax was 53% of the admission charge, which is now brought down to 40% by the impugned amendment act on the actual number of tickets sold whereas in respect of theatres governed by composition system, the rate of levy - whether it is 27% or any other percentage - is upon the gross collection capacity irrespective of the actual number of tickets sold for a show or over a week. ..... the amendment act is arbitrary, unreasonable and violative of article 14 inasmuch as (a) it classifies theatres situated in a local area into two categories subjecting one such category to a hostile treatment; (b) it equates the theatres situated in village panchayats and village town-ships and other lesser grade municipalities with the theatres in corporation areas and special grade municipalities areas; in short, it seeks to treat unequals equally, which itself is a negation of the guarantee of equal protection of laws. ..... at the time of 1978 amendment act) that the admission system was to continue in force not only in the corporation areas but also in five kilometer radius (belt) abutting each of those areas. ..... with a view to simplify the collection of tax, sections 5(a) and 5(b) were introduced by the 1978 amendment act. ..... indeed by amendment acts 20/83 and 48/86 certain local areas governed by sections 5(a) and 5(b) were removed from their purview and brought back to admission system. ..... in 1989, the act was further amended by tamil nadu act 40 of 1989, the act impugned herein. .....

Saraswati Devi Vs. Smt. Shanti Devi and Others

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 1996IXAD(SC)15; AIR1997SC347; JT1996(11)SC23; (1997)116PLR421; 1996(8)SCALE357; (1997)1SCC122; 1997(1)LC399(SC)

..... and women by rotation which will be determined in the manner as detailed below: provided that the number of offices of the presidents reserved for the scheduled castes and backward classes in the state shall bear as may be the same proportion to the total number of such offices of the municipalities as the population of the scheduled castes and backward classes in the state bears to the total population of the state:provided further that no less than one-third of the total number of offices of the president in the municipalities shall be reserved for women including ..... when the thrust of the rule is that offices of the presidents in municipalities must go by rotation to members belonging to the specified categories, it would necessarily mean in the context of parent article 243t of the constitution of india and section 10(5) of the act that the concerned elected members of the municipal committee must have got elected on the seats available to general category candidates or scheduled castes category candidates or backward classes category candidates or general women category candidates by rotation. ..... by the 73rd amendment of the constitution, the parliament declared municipalities to be the institutions of self-government and at the same time provided, for constitutional reservation in favour of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and women vide article 243t of the constitution of india. .....

The State of West Bengal Vs. Kesoram Industries Ltd. and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : (2004)187CTR(SC)219; [2004]266ITR721(SC); JT2004(1)SC375; 2004(1)SCALE425; (2004)10SCC201

..... of the tea act clearlypoints out that the same was enacted to provide for the control by theunion of the tea industry including the control, in pursuance of theinternational agreement now in force, of the cultivation of tea in, and ofthe export of tea from, india and for the purpose of establishing a teaboard and levy a duty of excise on tea produced in india.the statement of objects and reasons, the report of the selectcommittee as also the various amendments made therein from time to time,particularly amending act 21 of 1967, amending act 22 of 1970, amending act75 of 1976, amending act 38 of 1983 and amending act ..... 24 of 1986 leave nomanner of doubt that the tea industry had occupied a very importantposition in the country and in that view of the matter alone the uniongovernment took the industry under its control. .....

M.C. Mehta Vs. Union of India (Uoi) and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : (2006)4CompLJ450(SC); 111(2004)DLT345(SC); 2004(5)SCALE405; (2004)6SCC588

..... that in case of large number of residential colonies, with so called 70% concentration of industries of which the entire land use is sought to be changed from residential to industrial, should the master plan be amended to destroy its very soul and structure or subvert the basic norms of health, habitation and environment or reward the illegal establisher of industries and in the process penalize the law-abiding residents and condemn them to stay for ever in industrial areas or force them to abandon their houses built with ..... in the present case, the land cannot be permitted to be used contrary to the stipulated user except by amendment of the master plan after due observance of the provisions of the act and the rules. ..... part ix-a was inserted by constitution (74th amendment) act, 1992 w.e.f. ..... while dealing with the provisions of dd act and clause (k) of proviso to sub-section (1) of section 14 of the delhi rent control act, 1958, it was noticed that the legislature has clearly taken note of the fact that the enormous extents of land have been leased by the three authorities mentioned in that clause, and has expressed by means of this clause its anxiety to see that these lands are used for the purpose for which they were leased. .....

Agricultural Produce Market Committee, Narela, Delhi Vs. Commissioner ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : (2008)218CTR(SC)433; [2008]305ITR1(SC); JT2008(10)SC17; 2008(11)SCALE540; (2008)9SCC434; 2008AIRSCW6285; 2008(6)Supreme520; 2008(11)SCALE540

..... it states, inter alia, that notwithstanding anything in part ix, any law relating to panchayats in a state immediately before commencement of the constitution (seventy-third amendment) act, 1992, which is inconsistent with the provisions of part ix, shall continue to be in force until repealed by a competent legislature. ..... this article, inter alia, states that notwithstanding anything in part ixa, any provision of any law relating to municipalities in force in a state immediately before the commencement of the constitution (seventy-fourth amendment) act, 1992, which is inconsistent with the provisions of part ixa, shall continue to be in force until amended or repealed by a competent legislature. ..... in this connection, learned counsel urged that vide finance act, 2002, parliament has bodily lifted the definition of the 'local authority' under section 3(31) of the general clauses act, 1897 ('1897 act', for short) and has incorporated the said definition vide explanation inserted in section 10(20) and consequently amc(s) is a 'local authority' and continues to be a local authority even after the said amendment to section 10(20) of the 1961 act. .....

Bihari Lal Rada Vs. Anil JaIn (Tinu) and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 2009AIRSCW2006; 2009(4)LHSC2311; JT2009(2)SC455; 2009(2)SCALE559; (2009)4SCC1

..... the haryana legislative assembly made several amendments to the haryana municipal act, 1973 (for short 'the act, 1973') in the light of and to bring the law relating to municipalities in conformity with the purpose, substance and direction of the constitution (seventy-fourth amendment) act, 1992.14. ..... the haryana municipal act, 1973 faithfully adopted the constitutional mandate enshrined in part ixa; for carrying out the purposes of the constitution (seventy-fourth amendment) act, 1992. ..... the act, which is relevant reads as under:rule 70 (4): the offices of the presidents in the municipalities shall be filled up from amongst the members belonging to the general category, scheduled castes, backward classes and women by rotation which will be determined in the manner as detailed below:provided that the number of offices of the president reserved for the scheduled castes and backward classes in the state shall bear as may be the same proportion to the total number of such offices of the municipalities as the population of the scheduled castes and backward classes in the state bears to the ..... accordingly, part ixa; came to be inserted by the constitution (seventy-fourth amendment) act, 1992 w.e.f. .....