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Crawford Vs. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson Cty.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the court granted metro summary judgment, and the sixth circuit affirmed, holding that the opposition clause demanded active, consistent opposing activities, whereas crawford had not initiated any complaint prior to the investigation, and finding that the participation clause did not cover metro s internal investigation because it was not conducted pursuant to a ..... , at 262 (finding employee covered by title vii of the civil rights act of 1964 where his employer retaliated against him for failing to prevent his subordinate from filing an eeoc charge). ..... these definitions, petitioner contends that the statutory term oppose means taking action (including making a statement) to end, prevent, redress, or correct unlawful discrimination. ..... the title vii antiretaliation provision has two clauses, making it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate against any of his employees [1] because he has opposed any practice made an unlawful employment practice by this subchapter, or [2] because he has made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this subchapter. 42 ..... 2000e 3(a), which makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against any employe[e] who (1) has opposed any practice made an unlawful employment practice by this subchapter (opposition clause), or (2) has made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this subchapter .....

P. Gowtham Reddy and anr. Vs. the State of A.P., Rep. by Public Prosec ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 2004(2)ALD(Cri)112

..... period of ten years and that court has taken cognizance of such offence;''(e) 'organised crime' means any continuing unlawful activity by an individual, single or jointly, either as a member of an organised crime syndicate or on behalf of such syndicate, by use of violence or threat of violence or intimidation or coercion, or other unlawful means, with the objective of gaining pecuniary benefits, or gaining undue economic or other advantage for himself or ..... use of violence or threat of violence or intimidation or coercion or other unlawful means with the objective of gaining pecuniary benefit or gaining undue economic or other advantage for himself or any other person or promoting insurgency by indulging in such continuing unlawful activity either singly or jointly but as a member of an organised crime syndicate or on its behalf; more than one charge sheet ..... instance, the accused must be a member of an organised crime syndicate or a gang; the gang should involve in the activities of an organised crime; the accused shall commit an unlawful activity which is a cognizable offence punishable with imprisonment for three years or more; the accused shall continue to commit such unlawful activities either singly or jointly but as a member of an organised crime syndicate or on its behalf; the accused shall resort to ..... prevention of dangerous activities of boot leggers, dacoits, drug offenders, goondas, immoral traffic offenders and land grabbers act .....

Kartar Singh Vs. State of Punjab.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 1994SCC(3)569; JT1994(2)423

..... we give the following table of some of the provisions which are similar in the act of 1985 and the act of 1987: the terrorist and disruptive the terrorist and disruptive activities prevention activities (prevention) act, 1985 act,1987section 7 = section 9section 8 = section 10section 9(2) = section 11(2)section 13 = section 16section 16 = section 19section 17(2) = section 20(4)section 17(4) = section 20(7)section 17(5) = section 20(8)15. ..... confession by an accused before a specified officer either under the railway protection force act or railway property (unlawful possession) act or customs act or foreign exchange regulation act is made admissible, the special procedure prescribed under this act making a confession of a person indicted under the tada act given to a police officer admissible cannot be questioned, is misnomer because all the officials empowered to record statements under those special acts are not police officers as per the judicial pronouncements of this court as ..... . 120 of 1961, decided on july 28, 1965106 (1992) 2 scc 428: 1992 scc (l & s) 56: (1992) 20 atc 239107 (1967) 1 scr 77: air 1966 sc 1987108 air 1955 sc 549: (1955) 2 scr 225696the limits within which the executive government can function under the indian constitution can be ascertained without much difficulty by reference to the form of ..... . 54 (1979) 1 scc 380: (1979) 2 scr 47655 (1969) 2 scc 262: (1970) 1 scr 45756 (1967) 2 qb 617 : (1967) 1 all er 226 57 (1967) 2 scr 625 : air 1967 sc 1269 659171 .....

City of Lafayette Vs. Louisiana Pandl; Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... indeed, the injuries alleged in petitioners' complaint read as a litany of economic woes suffered by a business which has been unfairly treated by a competitor: "as a direct and proximate result of the unlawful conduct hereinabove alleged, plaintiffs have: (1) been prevented from and continue to be prevented from profitably expanding their businesses; (2) lost and continue to lose the profits which would have resulted from the operation of an expanded, more efficient and lower cost business; (3) been deprived of and ..... on its face, it shows a carefully studied attempt to bring within the act every person engaged in business whose activities might restrain or monopolize commercial intercourse among the states. ..... i agree with the plurality, then, that "[t]he threshold inquiry in determining if an anticompetitive activity is state action of the type the sherman act was not meant to proscribe is whether the activity is required by the state acting as sovereign. ..... , the actions of the state bar had failed to meet "[t]he threshold inquiry in determining if an anticompetitive activity is state action of the type the sherman act was not meant to proscribe. . . ." id. ..... a city engaged in proprietary activity is to be treated as if it were a private corporation: that is, it is immune from the antitrust laws only if it shows not merely that its action was " required by the state acting as sovereign,'" but also that such immunity is "`necessary in order to make the [state's] regulatory act work. .....

Vance Vs. Ball State Univ.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... as to how our approach might affect the outcomes of other cases cases where an employee who cannot take tangible employment actions, but who does direct the victim s daily work activities in a meaningful way, creates an unlawful hostile environment, and yet does not wield authority of such a degree and nature that the employer can be deemed negligent with respect to the harassment. ..... sensible and deliberate: an employer has superior access to evidence bearing on whether it acted reasonably to prevent or correct harassing behavior, and superior resources to marshal that evidence. ..... 219(2)(d) of the restatement (second) of agency (1957), which makes an employer liable for the conduct of an employee, even when that employee acts beyond the scope of her employment, if the employee is aided in accomplishing a tort by the existence of the agency relation. ..... taken, the employer may escape liability by establishing, as an affirmative defense, that (1) the employer exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct any harassing behavior and (2) that the plaintiff unreasonably failed to take advantage of the preventive or corrective opportunities that the employer provided. id. ..... taken, the employer may escape liability by establishing, as an affirmative defense, that (1) the employer exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct any harassing behavior and (2) that the plaintiff unreasonably failed to take advantage of the preventive or corrective opportunities that the employer provided. ..... 1967 .....

State of Bombay Vs. R.M.D. Chamarbaugwalia and ors.

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : AIR1956Bom1; (1955)57BOMLR288; ILR1955Bom680

..... influenced by chance or accident and which is undertaken with consciousness of risk.therefore if we come across any activity or undertaking whose determination is controlled or influenced by chance or accident and which under-taking is undertaken or activity entered into with consciousness of risk, then the definition of 'gambling' would be satisfied.therefore 'gaming' in the sense used in the prevention of gambling act, or wagering or lottery whether in the sense used in the indian penal code or in the wider sense to which we shall presently refer ..... when we come to the prize competitions, they are not defined by that act as our act defines them, but section 26 provides that:'it shall be unlawful to conduct in or through any newspaper, or in connection with any trade or business or the sale of any article to the public-- (a) any competition in which prizes are offered for forecasts of the result either of a future event, or of a past ..... a newspaper or publication printed and published outside the state, the manager or agent of the publisher of such newspaper or publication in charge of its circulation or distribution is deemed to be a promoter of the lottery or prize competition for the purposes of the act.section 3 renders all lotteries and all prize , competitions unlawful subject to the provisions of the ..... section 7 provides that a prize competition shall be deemed to be an unlawful prize competition unless a license in respect of such competition has been obtained by the .....

Kamal Agency Vs. the State of Maharashtra

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1970)72BOMLR928a

..... the petitioners pray for a writ of mandamus under article 22(5) of the constitution of india against the state of maharashtra ordering the respondents to forbear from doing any act or thing so as to prevent, obstruct or interfere in any manner with the free and unrestricted sale arid distribution of and/or dealings in lottery tickets of lotteries organised or conducted by any ..... the respondent, has urged certain arguments which can conveniently be reduced to five groups as follows :-(1) under the relevant provisions of the constitution of india a lottery organised and conducted by a state is unlawful unless it is in accordance with a law, if any, enacted by parliament or unless the functions or powers of the government of india have been entrusted to the state government under the provisions of ..... or article 801 of the constitution of india, nor has a state any executive power in respect thereof under article 298 ; and(5) what are excepted under section 32 (b) of the bombay lotteries act are lotteries lawfully organised by a state and therefore, unless a lottery organised by another state is lawful, in the sense that it is authorised, the respondent state is entitled to take action against ..... activities of even a private lottery to be unlawful; nor does it consider any other activity in connection with state lottery to be unlawful ..... shri krishna : [1967]3scr50 , when there is such overlapping between the entries in list i and list ii, the power conferred on the union parliament ..... 1967 .....

R. Rajagopal Alias R.R. Gopal and Another Vs. State of Tamil Nadu and ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1995SC264; JT1994(6)SC514; 1994(4)SCALE494; (1994)6SCC632; [1994]Supp4SCR353

..... cannot stand in light of the familiar principle, so often applied by this court, that a 'governmental purpose to control or prevent activities constitutionally subject to state regulation may not be achieved by means which sweep unnecessarily broadly and thereby invade the area of protected freedoms ..... this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.10. ..... can be offered as unifying principle underlying the concept has been the assertion that a claimed right must be a fundamental right implicit in the concept of ordered liberty....as ely says :there is nothing to prevent one from using the word 'privacy' to mean the freedom to live one's life without governmental interference. ..... those it is alleged that your serial supposed to have written by auto shankar is (false) since with an ulterior motive for this above act there will arise a situation that we may take legal action against you for black mailing. ..... which are but two faces of the same coin: (1) the general law of privacy which affords a tort action for damages resulting from an unlawful invasion of privacy and (2) the constitutional recognition given to the right to privacy which protects personal privacy against unlawful governmental invasion. ..... 1967 .....

Suraj Pal Sahu Vs. State of Maharashtra and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1986SC2177; 1987(35)BLJR227; 1986CriLJ2047; 1987(1)Crimes8(SC); 1986(2)SCALE484; (1986)4SCC378; [1986]3SCR837

..... a case where it was held that if the grounds were relevant and germane to the object of the detaining act then merely because the objectionable activities covered thereby also attracted the provisions of chapter viii, criminal procedure code, the preventive detention could not for that reason alone be considered to be mala fide provided the authority concerned was satisfied of the necessity of the detention as contemplated by the act. ..... during enquiry into the above complaint, it transpired that the stolen property was unlawfully kept by the detenu in his godown at nagpur and a search warrant was obtained and the stolen railway property ..... it is the case of the detaining authority that due to this unlawful possession of break-locks by the detenu, four wagons were marked sick and had to be sent to the railway carriage and wagon workshop at ajni for repair, as a result was indents put up to the railway ..... the sixth case it was further alleged that on receiving information that 90 lbs, rails 31 meters long were received and kept unlawfully by the detenu in his godown at nagpur, the inspector of the c.i.b. ..... enquiry had revealed that the stolen property was unlawfully obtained and kept by the detenu at certain place ..... it is the case of the government that due to the unlawful possession of the railway property by the detenu, as many as ten wagons had to be marked sick and could not be made available to the public and the government for loading different essential commodities to be supplied in .....

Sunil Kumar Samaddar Vs. the Superintendent, Hooghly Jail and ors.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1972Cal35,1972CriLJ244,75CWN751

..... compass, the sine qua non of the provisions incorporated in section 3 of the west bengal (prevention of violent activities) act, 1970 are '(a) acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of the state or the maintenance of public order; (b) such acts must be within the bounds of section 3 (2) (a) to (e); (c) the same must take place against the backdrop of violent activities, to prevent which the act came into force; and (d) the overriding consideration orthe state government for such detention being preventive and not punitive. ..... is malice in law because a criminal case is pending over the same subject-matter and (d) that it is neither proximate nor relevant, there being no direct or causal connection with the purpose of detention under the west bengal (prevention of violent activities) act, 1970 and being outside the bounds of section 3 (2) (d) or even (e) thereof, as urged on behalf of the respondent, it is de hors the statute and constitutes no nexus. mr. ..... it has been stated that on the date and time mentioned the detenue along with his associates formed an unlawful assembly and forcibly harvested the paddy crops from the lands of two specific persons of a particular village as named therein. ..... dutt delivering the judgment of the court observed at page 158 that 'but when we take into consideration the other grounds it appears that the detenu was said to have been indulging in similar activities till 1967 and that gives ground no. .....