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Stevens Vs. Marks
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-28-1966
Stevens v. Marks - 383 U.S. 234 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court Stevens v. Marks, 383 U.S. 234 (1966) Stevens v. Marks No. 210 Argued January 24, 1966 Decided February 28, 1966 * 383 U.S. 234 CERTIORARI TO THE APPELLATE DIVISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, FIRST JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT Syllabus Petitioner, a New York City police officer, was subpoenaed before one of the grand juries investigating alleged bribery of public officials. He appeared without counsel and signed a waiver of immunity upon the prosecutor's advice that failure to do so would subject him to removal from public office. The New York Constitution and the New York City Charter provide for forfeiture of employment by a public employee who invokes the privilege against self-incrimination or who refuses to waive immunity from prosecution. The waiver covered both the privilege against self-incrimination and immunity from prosecution. Petitioner was asked a few questions and given a questionnaire to fill out. He a...
Levine Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-28-1966
Levine v. United States - 383 U.S. 265 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court Levine v. United States, 383 U.S. 265 (1966) Levine v. United States No. 112 Decided February 28, 1966 * 383 U.S. 265 ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Petitioners were found guilty by a jury on each count of a ten-count indictment, of which the first count was a conspiracy charge and the remaining counts were charges of substantive offenses. The Court of Appeals affirmed the conspiracy convictions, and, with some exceptions, the convictions for the substantive offenses. Held: in view of the Solicitor General's concessions that an individual cannot be held criminally able for substantive offenses committed before he joined or after he had withdrawn from the conspiracy, and that some of the convictions for substantive offenses here must accordingly be reversed, and, upon consideration of the entire record, the judgment of the Court of Appea...
Hopson Vs. Texaco, Inc.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-28-1966
Hopson v. Texaco, Inc. - 383 U.S. 262 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court Hopson v. Texaco, Inc., 383 U.S. 262 (1966) Hopson v. Texaco, Inc. No. 18 Decided February 28, 1966 383 U.S. 262 ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Petitioners sued under the Jones Act for damages for injuries to one seaman and for death of another resulting from an automobile accident in Trinidad. The seamen, who were crew members of respondent's tanker docked at respondent's refinery, fell ill and were unable to continue the voyage. To comply with the statutory requirement that incapacitated seamen be brought before a U.S. Consul before discharge in a foreign port, the ship's Master procured a cab from one of the two local taxi companies usually used for trips outside the refiner area. The jury found the taxi driver negligent, and judgment on the jury's verdict was entered for petitioners in the District Court. The Court of Appeals reversed ...
Accardi Vs. Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-28-1966
Accardi v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. - 383 U.S. 225 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court Accardi v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 383 U.S. 225 (1966) Accardi v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. No. 280 Argued January 20, 1966 Decided February 28, 1966 383 U.S. 225 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Syllabus Petitioners, after military service in World War II, returned to their employment as tugboat firemen with respondent, Pennsylvania Railroad, which they had commenced in 1941 and 1942. Each was given the same amount of seniority he had before leaving, plus credit for the time spent in the service as required by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. A strike developed in 1959 over the need for firemen on the new diesel tugs, which was settled the next year by petitioners' union and the railroads. The settlement agreement called for retention of firemen with 20 years or more seniority who wanted to remain. Other employees, including petitioners, we...
Hicks Vs. District of Columbia
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-28-1966
Hicks v. District of Columbia - 383 U.S. 252 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court Hicks v. District of Columbia, 383 U.S. 252 (1966) Hicks v. District of Columbia No. 51 Argued October 21, 1965 Decided February 28, 1966 383 U.S. 252 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Certiorari dismissed. Report below: see 197 A.2d 154. PER CURIAM: The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted. MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, concurring. Among the several reasons which support the action of the Court in dismissing the writ in this case as improvidently granted, I rest my decision to join in this disposition on the lack of a record, without which I do not believe the constitutional issues tendered can properly be decided. MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, dissenting. I We granted certiorari in this case to consider what I think is an important question: the constitutionality of petitioner's conviction of "vagrancy." Relying on our determination that thi...
Callender Vs. Florida
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-28-1966
CALLENDER v. FLORIDA - 383 U.S. 270 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court CALLENDER v. FLORIDA, 383 U.S. 270 (1966) 383 U.S. 270 CALLENDER ET AL. v. FLORIDA. ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA. No. 58, October Term, 1964. Order and judgment of April 26, 1965, vacated. Decided February 28, 1966. Certiorari granted to District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District, and judgments reversed. PER CURIAM. The mandate of this Court in this case issued on the 21st day of May, 1965, is hereby recalled and the judgment heretofore entered on the 26th day of April, 1965, is hereby vacated. The order of the Court dated the 26th day of April, 1965, granting the writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida is vacated. Treating the papers submitted as a petition for a writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District, the petition for a writ of certiorari is granted and the judgments are reversed. Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454 ...
Harrison Vs. Schaefer
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-28-1966
HARRISON v. SCHAEFER - 383 U.S. 269 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court HARRISON v. SCHAEFER, 383 U.S. 269 (1966) 383 U.S. 269 HARRISON ET AL. v. SCHAEFER ET AL. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF WYOMING. No. 854. Decided February 28, 1966. 251 F. Supp. 450, affirmed. Thomas O. Miller for appellants. A. G. McClintock for appellees. PER CURIAM. The motion to affirm is granted and the judgment is affirmed. MR. JUSTICE FORTAS took no part in the consideration or decision of this case. Page 383 U.S. 269, 270 ...
Carnation Co. Vs. Pacific Westbound Conference
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-28-1966
Carnation Co. v. Pacific Westbound Conference - 383 U.S. 213 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court Carnation Co. v. Pacific Westbound Conference, 383 U.S. 213 (1966) Carnation Co. v. Pacific Westbound Conference No. 20 Argued November 8, 1965 Decided February 28, 1966 383 U.S. 213 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Petitioner ships evaporated milk from west coast ports to the Philippines. Respondent conferences are associations of shipping companies that establish rates for their members pursuant to agreements approved by the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC). Pacific Westbound Conference is composed of companies operating between the West Coast and the Far East, and the Far East Conference of companies operating between the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the Far East. In 1957, Pacific Westbound announced a rate increase for evaporated milk going to the Philippines. Petitioner tried to get the original rate restored, but the increase remained ...
Crawford County Bar Association Vs. Faubus
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-28-1966
CRAWFORD COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION v. FAUBUS - 383 U.S. 271 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court CRAWFORD COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION v. FAUBUS, 383 U.S. 271 (1966) 383 U.S. 271 CRAWFORD COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION v. FAUBUS, GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS, ET AL. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. No. 941. Decided February 28, 1966. * 251 F. Supp. 998, affirmed. [ Footnote * ] Together with No. 942, Alexander v. Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, et al., also on appeal from the same court. Fines F. Batchelor, Jr., for appellant in No. 941. W. B. Brady for appellant in No. 942. Bruce Bennett, Attorney General of Arkansas, Farrell E. Faubus, Assistant Attorney General, and Jack L. Lessenberry for appellees in both cases. PER CURIAM. The motion to affirm is granted and the judgment is affirmed. MR. JUSTICE FORTAS took no part in the consideration or decision of these cases. Page 383 U.S. 271, 272 ...
Swann Vs. Adams
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-25-1966
Swann v. Adams - 383 U.S. 210 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court Swann v. Adams, 383 U.S. 210 (1966) Swann v. Adams No. 973 Decided February 25, 1966 383 U.S. 210 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Syllabus This reapportionment case, instituted in 1962, was remanded to the District Court for further proceedings in light of Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533 , and companion cases. The Florida Legislature, on June 29, 1965, enacted a reapportionment plan which the District Court on appellants' challenge, filed July 6, held unconstitutional on December 23. That court, however, gave the plan interim approval. The period for which such approval was given would delay valid apportionment in Florida until at least 1969. Held: There is no warrant for perpetuating the unconstitutional apportionment for three more years. The case is reversed and remanded to the District Court so that a valid reapportionment plan will be made effective for the 196...
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