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Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. Vs. United States

Court : US Supreme Court

..... or group of persons is engaged in a pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of any of the rights secured by this title, and that the pattern or practice is of such a nature and is intended to deny the full exercise of the rights herein described, the attorney general may bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the united states by filing with it a complaint (1) signed by him (or in his absence the acting attorney general), (2) setting forth facts pertaining to such pattern or practice, and ..... this title which occurs in a state, or political subdivision of a state, which has no state or local law prohibiting such act or practice, a civil action may be brought under subsection (a): provided, that the court may refer the matter to the community relations service established by title x of this act for as long as the court believes there is a reasonable possibility of obtaining voluntary compliance, but for not more than sixty days: provided further, that ..... the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it in the manner most beneficial to the ..... these conditions had become so acute as to require the listing of available lodging for negroes in a special guidebook which was itself "dramatic testimony to the difficulties" negroes encounter in travel. ..... 1965 .....

Whitney Nat'l Bank Vs. New Orleans Bank

Court : US Supreme Court

..... we do hold, however, that where a bank holding company seeks to open a new bank pursuant to a plan of organization the propriety of which much, under the bank holding company act, be determined by the board, the statutory review procedure set out in the act must be utilized by those dissatisfied with the board's ruling despite the fact that the comptroller's certificate is a necessary prerequisite to the opening of the bank. ..... held: since the issues here concern essentially the organization and relationship of the holding company and the new national bank, matters within the cognizance of the frb, rather than the comptroller, upon whom the frb's approval of a holding company plan is binding, the statutory scheme set forth in the bank holding company act of 1956 -- frb determination, subject to review by a court of appeals -- should be followed. ..... we know of no persuasive reason for finding a different procedure required where it is a new bank that is sought to be organized and operated simply because the comptroller there performs a function in addition to that of the board, i.e. ..... the facts of this case dramatize the importance of the jurisdiction of the district court. ..... 26 argued november 12, 1964 decided january 18, 1965 * 379 u.s. ..... 411 (1965) whitney national bank in jefferson parish v. ..... 411 (1965) u.s. .....

Poona Electric Supply Co. Ltd. Vs. Commissioner of Income-tax, Bombay

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1966SC30; [1965]57ITR521(SC); [1965]3SCR818

..... 239 were pressed upon the house in support of the contention on behalf of the revenue, lord macmillan explained his earlier observations thus : 'when, therefore, in the passage referred to by the attorney-general in the pondicherry case, i said that 'a payment out of profits and conditional or profits being earned cannot accurately be described as a payment made to earn profits', i was dealing with a case in which the obligation was, first of all, to ascertain the profits in a prescribed manner, after providing for all outlays incurred in earning them ..... learned additional solicitor general took us through the various paragraphs of the sixth schedule to the act and argued that under them the licensee's clear profit was arrived at after all the deductions were made, including the appropriations for all taxes on income and profits and, therefore, the distribution of a part of the excess was only a distribution out of the profits. ..... 10(1) of the income-tax act; (2) the said amounts could not be said to be an expenditure wholly and exclusively incurred for the purpose of the business, as the expenditure was not incurred either during the course of the business or for the purpose of earning the profits of the business, but was only apportioned or distributed from and out of the profits already earned. 5. .....

United States Vs. California

Court : US Supreme Court

..... either case, the requisite depth is to be determined by the following criterion: the envelope of all arcs of circles having a radius equal to one-fourth the length of the straight line shall be drawn from all points around the shore of the indentation; if the area enclosed by the straight line across the entrance and the envelope of the arcs of the circles is greater than that of a semicircle with a diameter equal to one-half the length of the line across the entrance, the waters of the indentation shall be regarded as inland waters; if otherwise, the waters of the indentation shall be ..... footnote 29 ] the united states contends that we must ignore the convention on the territorial sea and the contiguous zone in performing our duty of giving content to "inland waters" as used in the submerged lands act, and must restrict ourselves to determining what our decision would have been had the question been presented to us for decision on may 22, 1953, the date of enactment. ..... footnote 2/50 ] if the change was to have the dramatic effect which the court attributes to it, senator holland certainly did not recognize it, for he said that it did "not depart in the slightest from the intention of the sponsors of the joint resolution. ..... treaties in force -- january 1, 1965, 263. ..... the parties, or either of them, may, before september 1, 1965, submit a proposed decree to carry this opinion into page 381 u. ..... original argued december 7-8, 1964 decided may 17, 1965 381 u.s. ..... 139 (1965) united ..... (1965) .....

Estes Vs. Texas

Court : US Supreme Court

..... " clearly, the openness of the proceedings provides other benefits as well: it arguably improves the quality of testimony, it may induce unknown witnesses to come forward with relevant testimony, it may move all trial participants to perform their duties conscientiously, and it gives the public the opportunity to observe the courts in the performance of their duties and to determine whether they are performing adequately. ..... here, although there was nothing so dramatic as a home-viewed confession, there had been a bombardment of the community with the sights and sounds of a two-day hearing during which the original jury panel, the petitioner, the lawyers and the judge were highly publicized. ..... how is the defendant to prove that the prosecutor acted differently than he ordinarily would have, that defense counsel was more concerned with impressing prospective clients than with the interests of the defendant, that a juror was so concerned with how he appeared on television that his mind continually wandered from the proceedings, that an important defense witness made a bad impression on the jury because he was "playing" to the television audience, or that the judge was a little more lenient or a little more strict ..... 256 argued april 1, 1965 decided june 7, 1965 381 u.s. ..... 472 (1965); cox v. ..... 532 (1965) estes v. ..... 466 (1965). ..... 562 (1965). ..... 532 (1965) u.s. .....

Brown Vs. Louisiana

Court : US Supreme Court

..... it means that the constitution (the first and the fourteenth amendments) requires the custodians and supervisors of the public libraries in this country to stand helplessly by while protesting groups advocating one cause or another, stage "sit-ins" or "stand-ups" to dramatize their particular views on particular issues. ..... public buildings such as libraries, schoolhouses, fire departments, courthouses, and executive mansions are maintained to perform certain specific and vital functions. ..... [ footnote 2 ] the statute then read: "disturbing the peace is the doing of any of the following in such a manner as would foreseeably disturb or alarm the public:" "(1) engaging in a fistic encounter; or" "(2) using of any unnecessarily loud, offensive, or insulting language; or" "(3) appearing in an intoxicated condition; or" "(4) engaging in any act in a violent and tumultuous manner by any three or more persons; or" "(5) holding of an unlawful assembly; or" "(6) interruption of any lawful assembly of people; or" "(7) commission of any other act in such a manner as to unreasonably disturb or alarm the public. ..... 536 , decided in january, 1965, involved the leader of some 2,000 negroes who demonstrated in the vicinity of a courthouse and jail to protest the arrest of fellow demonstrators. ..... 41 argued december 6, 1965 decided february 23, 1966 383 u.s. ..... 140-160 (1965). .....

Travancore Sugars and Chemicals Ltd. Vs. Commissioner of Income-tax, K ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1967SC477; [1966]62ITR566(SC); [1967]1SCR423

..... . the appellate assistant commissioner relied upon the decision in the pondicherry railway company v. c.i.t. 5 i.t.c ..... thereto and more particularly described in the schedule 'a' annexed to the said principal agreement, the factory known as the government distilleries situate at nagercoil in south travancore with lands, buildings, machinery and other things attached thereto and more particularly described in the schedule 'b' annexed to the principal agreement, and all the assets of the factory known as the government tincture factory situated at trivandrum and more particularly described in the schedule 'c' annexed to the principal agreement for the cash consideration in the said principal agreement mentioned ..... ., chief secretary to government acting for and on behalf of the said government of his highness the maharaja of travancore of the one part and sir william wright, kt., c.b.e ..... . bombay city : [1965]57itr521(sc) in which a distinction was drawn between real profits ascertained on commercial principles and profits fixed by statute for a specified purpose .....

Time, Inc. Vs. Hill

Court : US Supreme Court

..... baer, supra, the court made the new york times rationale operative where "the public has an independent interest in the qualifications and performance of the person who holds it [government position], beyond the general public interest in the qualifications and performance of all government employees. . . ." id. ..... but i certainly concur with the court that the greatest solicitude for the first amendment does not compel us to deny to a state the right to provide a remedy for reckless falsity in writing and publishing an article which irresponsibly and injuriously invades the privacy of a quiet family for no purpose except dramatic interest and commercial appeal. ..... of photography, from exhibiting in or about his or its establishment specimens of the work of such establishment, unless the same is continued by such person, firm or corporation after written notice objecting thereto has been given by the person portrayed, and nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to prevent any person, firm or corporation from using the name, portrait or picture of any manufacturer or dealer in connection with the goods, wares and merchandise manufactured, produced or dealt in by him which he has sold ..... , 23 app.div.2d 216, 220, 260 n.y.s.2d 451, 454 (1965), stated that the concept of fictionalization rested on a "distinction between an intentionally fictionalized treatment and a straight factual treatment (subject to inadvertent or superficial inaccuracies). . . . .....

B. Shama Rao Vs. the Union Territory of Pondicherry

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1967SC1480; [1967]2SCR650; [1967]20STC215(SC)

..... in fact, it was urged that the pondicherry legislature had, by enacting the principal act in the form mentioned above, abdicated its legislative functions and had given the power to the madras legislature to enact for pondicherry, because, after the principal act had been enacted on 25th may, 1965, and before it was enforced on 1st april, 1966, it was open to the madras legislature to make any amendments it liked in the madras act, and by virtue of s.2 (1) of the principal act, the madras act that was to come into force in pondicherry would be as amended by the madras legislature and ..... of non-delegation of legislative powers founded either on the doctrine of separation of powers or the theory of agency has no application to the british parliament or the legislature constituted by an act of british parliament, that the operation of the act performed under delegated power is directly and immediately under and by virtue of the law by which the power is delegated and its efficacy is referable to that antecedent law, that if the legislature acts within its prescribed sphere there is no limit to its power of delegation, it being for 'the legislature to determine how far it should seek ..... it is manifest that the assembly refused to perform its legislative function entrusted under the act constituting it. .....

Giles Vs. Maryland

Court : US Supreme Court

..... both it and the rape claim were disposed of on the assertion that "specific acts of misconduct" are not admissible to impeach credibility, and that "the only possible use of the facts surrounding the alleged rape claim would be for purposes of showing the unchastity of the prosecutrix, a fact that was already known to the defense at the time of the rape trial. ..... but the court held (1) that the prosecution could be charged only with the knowledge that the mother of the victim had at one time taken her to a psychiatrist; (2) that there was nothing in the record to show that the victim was suffering from nymphomania, and (3) that, even if she was so afflicted, "there is nothing to show that this made her incompetent as a witness or that she consented to the acts for which the appellees were convicted. ..... connor, who had not performed the psychiatric examination, was allowed to testify concerning his nonpsychiatric diagnosis of the patient, and his conclusion was "adolescent reaction. ..... there, the prosecution dramatically used a pair of shorts, misrepresented as saturated with blood, to secure a conviction. ..... 154 193-195 (1965). mr. .....