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United States Vs. Sullivan
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-19-1948
United States v. Sullivan - 332 U.S. 689 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Sullivan, 332 U.S. 689 (1948) United States v. Sullivan No. 121 Argued December 9, 1947 Decided January 19, 1948 332 U.S. 689 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. It is a violation of 301(k) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 for a retail druggist who has purchased sulfathiazole tablets from a wholesaler in the same State (who had obtained them by way of an interstate shipment) to remove a dozen of them from a properly labeled bulk container in which they were shipped in interstate commerce and in which they were being held for resale, place them in a pill box labeled "sulfathiazole" but not containing the statutorily required directions for use or warnings of danger, and sell them locally to a retail purchaser. Pp. 332 U. S. 695 -697. (a) The removal of drugs from a container labeled in accordance with the requirements of the Act ...
Oyama Vs. California
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-19-1948
Oyama v. California - 332 U.S. 633 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court Oyama v. California, 332 U.S. 633 (1948) Oyama v. California No. 44 Argued October 22, 1947 Decided January 19, 1948 332 U.S. 633 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA Syllabus 1. The California Alien Land Law, as applied in this case to effect an escheat to the State of certain agricultural lands recorded in the name of a minor American citizen because they had been paid for by his father, a Japanese alien ineligible for naturalization who was appointed the son's guardian, held to have deprived the son of the equal protection of the laws and of his privileges as an American citizen, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment and R.S. 1978. Pp. 332 U. S. 640 -647. 2. The Alien Land Law, as applied in this case discriminated against the citizen son in the following respects: (a) By a statutory prima facie presumption that conveyances financed by his father and recorded in the son's name were not gifts to ...
Lee Vs. Mississippi
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-19-1948
Lee v. Mississippi - 332 U.S. 742 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court Lee v. Mississippi, 332 U.S. 742 (1948) Lee v. Mississippi No. 91 Argued November 21, 1947 Decided January 19, 1948 332 U.S. 742 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI Syllabus 1. A defendant in a criminal prosecution in a state court who testified that he had not in fact confessed is not thereby precluded from raising the issue that an alleged confession offered as evidence was coerced and that a conviction obtained by the use thereof denied him due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. Pp. 332 U. S. 742 -746. 2. The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment invalidates a state court conviction grounded in whole or in part upon a confession which is the product of other than reasoned and voluntary choice. P. 332 U. S. 745 . 3. Foreclosing the right to complain of the use of an allegedly coerced confession because of inconsistent testimony as to the c...
Von Moltke Vs. Gillies
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-19-1948
Von Moltke v. Gillies - 332 U.S. 708 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court Von Moltke v. Gillies, 332 U.S. 708 (1948) Von Moltke v. Gillies No. 73 Argued November 20, 1947 Decided January 19, 1948 332 U.S. 708 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Upon an indictment for conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act of 1917, the penalty for which may be death or imprisonment for as long as 30 years, petitioner signed a paper purporting to waive her right to counsel, and pleaded guilty. She was sentenced to imprisonment for four years. In a subsequent habeas corpus proceeding challenging the validity of the sentence, she alleged (1) that the plea was entered because of coercion, intimidation, and deception by federal officers in violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, and (2) that she neither understandingly waived the benefit of the advice of counsel nor was provided with the assistance of counsel as required by the Sixth Amendment. The ...
Haley Vs. Ohio
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-12-1948
Haley v. Ohio - 332 U.S. 596 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court Haley v. Ohio, 332 U.S. 596 (1948) Haley v. Ohio No. 51 Argued November 17, 1947 Decided January 12, 1948 332 U.S. 596 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO Syllabus 1. A 15-year-old boy was arrested about midnight on a charge of murder, and questioned by relays of police from shortly after midnight until about 5 a.m. without benefit of counsel or any friend to advise him. When confronted with alleged confessions of his alleged accomplices around 5 a.m., he signed a confession typed by the police. This confession was admitted in evidence over his protest, and he was convicted. Held: the methods used in obtaining this confession violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the conviction cannot be sustained. Pp. 332 U. S. 597 -601. 2. The ruling of the trial court admitting the confession in evidence and the finding of the jury that the confession was voluntary did not foreclose the independent ...
Sipuel Vs. Board of Regents
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-12-1948
Sipuel v. Board of Regents - 332 U.S. 631 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court Sipuel v. Board of Regents, 332 U.S. 631 (1948) Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma No. 369 Argued January 7-8, 1948 Decided January 12, 1948 332 U.S. 631 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OKLAHOMA Syllabus A Negro, concededly qualified to receive professional legal education offered by a State, cannot be denied such education because of her color. The State must provide such education for her in conformity with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and provide it as soon as it does for applicants of any other group. Pp. 332 U. S. 632 -633. 199 Okla. 36, 180 P.2d 135, reversed. The Supreme Court of Oklahoma affirmed a denial by an inferior state court of a writ of mandamus to require Page 332 U. S. 632 admission of a qualified Negro applicant to a state law school. 199 Okla. 36, 180 P.2d 135. This Court granted certiorari. 332 U.S. 814. Reversed, p. 332 U. S....
Callen Vs. Pennsylvania R. Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-12-1948
Callen v. Pennsylvania R. Co. - 332 U.S. 625 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court Callen v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 332 U.S. 625 (1948) Callen v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. No. 331 Argued December 18, 1947 Decided January 12, 1948 332 U.S. 625 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. Where plaintiff in a suit under the Federal Employers' Liability Act contended that a release relied upon by defendant was invalid because neither party knew at the time it was given that plaintiff's injury was permanent, and the permanence of the injury was disputed by defendant, defendant was entitled to have the issue as to the permanence of the injury passed upon by the jury, and it was error for the trial court to withdraw from the jury the question of the validity of the release. Pp. 332 U. S. 626 -629. 2. Where, in a case under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, a railroad pleads a release obtained from an injured employee and the employee admits giving the rele...
United States Vs. Di Re
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-05-1948
United States v. Di Re - 332 U.S. 581 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Di Re, 332 U.S. 581 (1948) United States v. Di Re No. 61 Argued October 17, 1947 Decided January 5, 1948 332 U.S. 581 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. Respondent and an informer were in an automobile, the driver of which was suspected of selling counterfeit gasoline ration coupons. When approached by federal and New York state officers, the informer had counterfeit gasoline ration coupons in his hand and stated that he had obtained them from the driver. Without previous information implicating respondent, and without a warrant, the state officer arrested respondent and the driver, but did not search the car or state the charge on which respondent was arrested. At the police station, respondent was searched and counterfeit gasoline ration coupons were found on his person. On the evidence thus obtained, respondent was convicted of possession of counter...
Sealfon Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-05-1948
Sealfon v. United States - 332 U.S. 575 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court Sealfon v. United States, 332 U.S. 575 (1948) Sealfon v. United States No. 174 Argued December 11, 1947 Decided January 5, 1948 332 U.S. 575 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. Petitioner was tried and acquitted on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States by presenting false invoices and making false representations to a ration board to the effect that certain sales of sugar products were made to exempt agencies. Thereafter, he was tried and convicted for aiding and abetting the uttering and publishing of the false invoices introduced in the conspiracy trial. The crux of the prosecutor's case at the second trial was an alleged agreement necessarily found in the first trial to be nonexistent. Held: in the unique circumstances of this case, the jury's verdict in the conspiracy trial was a determination favorable to petitioner of the facts essential to convic...
Globe Liquor Co., Inc. Vs. San Roman
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-05-1948
Globe Liquor Co., Inc. v. San Roman - 332 U.S. 571 (1948) U.S. Supreme Court Globe Liquor Co., Inc. v. San Roman, 332 U.S. 571 (1948) Globe Liquor Co., Inc. v. San Roman No. 205 Argued December 17, 1947 Decided January 5, 1948 332 U.S. 571 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT Syllabus In a suit on a contract in a Federal District Court, each party moved for a directed verdict. One party's motion was granted and judgment was entered for him. The other party failed to move, as authorized by Rule 50(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, to have the judgment set aside and judgment entered in accordance with his own motion for a directed verdict. The Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded with directions to enter judgment for the loser below. Held: 1. The Circuit Court of Appeals erred in directing entry of such a judgment. Cone v. West Virginia Paper Co., 330 U. S. 212 . Pp. 332 U. S. 572 -574. 2. Since the question whether th...
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