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United States Vs. General Motors Corp.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-28-1966
United States v. General Motors Corp. - 384 U.S. 127 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. General Motors Corp., 384 U.S. 127 (1966) United States v. General Motors Corp. No. 46 Argued December 9, 1965 Decided April 28, 1966 384 U.S. 127 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Syllabus This is a civil action to enjoin General Motors Corporation (GM) and three associations of Chevrolet dealers in the Los Angeles area from participating in an alleged conspiracy to restrain in violation of 1 of the Sherman Act by eliminating sales of new Chevrolets through "discount houses" and "referral services." The District Court found, among other things, that the Losor Chevrolet Dealers Association, in the summer of 1960, complained to GM personnel about sales to discounters; that at a Losor meeting in November, 1960, member dealers agreed to embark on a letter-writing campaign to enlist GM's aid; that, in December and January, GM person...
United States Vs. Pabst Brewing Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-27-1966
United States v. Pabst Brewing Co. - 384 U.S. 546 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Pabst Brewing Co., 384 U.S. 546 (1966) United States v. Pabst Brewing Co. No. 404 Argued April 27, 1966 Decided .June 13, 1966 384 U.S. 546 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN Syllabus In 1958, Pabst Brewing Company, the country's tenth largest brewer, acquired Blatz Brewing Company, the eighteenth largest, thus becoming the fifth largest with 4.49% of the total industry sales. The Government brought this action charging that the acquisition violated 7 of the Clayton Act because its effect "may be substantially to lessen competition" in the production and sale of beer in the United States, in Wisconsin, and in the three-state area comprising Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. The Government introduced evidence to establish a marked decline in the number of brewers and a sharp rise in the share of the market controlled by the leading bre...
Naacp Vs. Overstreet
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-27-1966
NAACP v. Overstreet - 384 U.S. 118 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court NAACP v. Overstreet, 384 U.S. 118 (1966) NAACP v. Overstreet No. 505 Argued March 29, 1966 Decided April 27, 1966 384 U.S. 118 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA 221 Ga. 16, 142 S.E.2d 816, certiorari dismissed as improvidently granted. PER CURIAM. The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted. MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, with whom THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN and MR. JUSTICE FORTAS concur, dissenting. In May, 1962, a 14-year-old boy claimed that respondent, the owner of a market at which the boy was employed, had accused him of stealing merchandise, and had thereafter slapped and kicked him. The truth of this charge remains disputed. The boy's mother, dissatisfied with the response of the local police, contacted the Savannah Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Branch responded by organizing a campaign to withhold patronage from respondent. Pick...
United States Vs. Catto
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-26-1966
United States v. Catto - 384 U.S. 102 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Catto, 384 U.S. 102 (1966) United States v. Catto No. 535 Argued March 22-23, 1966 Decided April 26, 1966 384 U.S. 102 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Respondents are ranchers who raise livestock for sale and maintain herds for breeding purposes. They sold animals from the breeding herds and reported capital gains therefrom on their federal tax returns in accord with the "unit livestock price" variant of the accrual method of accounting they had selected for their overall ranching operations. They filed refund claims with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue on the ground that they were entitled to use the more advantageous cash method of accounting in computing gain from sales of breeding stock. Respondents challenged the validity of Treas.Reg. 1.471-6(f), which requires that a taxpayer who elects to use the "unit livestock price" method must ap...
Burns Vs. Richardson
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-25-1966
Burns v. Richardson - 384 U.S. 73 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court Burns v. Richardson, 384 U.S. 73 (1966) Burns v. Richardson No. 318 Argued February 21, 1966 Decided April 25, 1966 * 384 U.S. 73 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF HAWAII Syllabus The Hawaii Constitution provides that three small counties elect 15 of 25 state senators, while the fourth county (Oahu), with 79% of the State's population, elects 10. Under an apportionment authorized by the Constitution, Oahu has been allocated 36 of the 51 seats in the state house of representatives, the representatives being elected from multi-member districts apportioned on the basis of the number of registered voters in each. Suit was brought in federal district court attacking the apportionment plan. The District Court held the senate, but not the house, apportionment unconstitutional, and directed the legislature to submit to the voters the question of a convention to amend the constitution. On mot...
Shannon Vs. Sequeechi
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-25-1966
SHANNON v. SEQUEECHI - 384 U.S. 101 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court SHANNON v. SEQUEECHI, 384 U.S. 101 (1966) 384 U.S. 101 SHANNON, AKA KELLY v. SEQUEECHI, SHERIFF, ET AL. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OKLAHOMA. No. 1261, Misc. Decided April 25, 1966. Appeal dismissed. PER CURIAM. The appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. PRENSKY v. GELLER, 384 U.S. 101 (1966) 384 U.S. 101 (1966) "> U.S. Supreme Court PRENSKY v. GELLER, 384 U.S. 101 (1966) 384 U.S. 101 PRENSKY v. GELLER, JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, ET AL. APPEAL FROM THE APPELLATE DIVISION, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, FIRST JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT. No. 1273, Misc. Decided April 25, 1966. 22 App. Div. 2d 559, 257 N. Y. S. 2d 492, appeal dismissed and certiorari denied. Basil R. Pollitt for appellant. Frank S. Hogan for appellees. PER CURIAM. The motion to dismiss is granted and the appeal is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the ...
Wallis Vs. Pan American Petroleum Corp.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-25-1966
Wallis v. Pan American Petroleum Corp. - 384 U.S. 63 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court Wallis v. Pan American Petroleum Corp., 384 U.S. 63 (1966) Wallis v. Pan American Petroleum Corp. No. 341 Argued February 23-24, 1966 Decided April 25, 1966 384 U.S. 63 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Petitioner, in 1954, filed with the Secretary of the Interior under the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands applications for a lease to exploit oil and gas deposits in several federal tracts near Burrwood, Louisiana. He thereafter agreed to give respondent McKenna a one-third interest in those applications and any lease issued thereunder. Petitioner later sold respondent corporation an option to acquire any lease which he might obtain under those applications. Fearing that the tracts might prove to be public domain lands, petitioner filed new applications in 1956 for the same tracts under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, under which, in 1958, the Se...
Ford Vs. California
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-25-1966
FORD v. CALIFORNIA - 384 U.S. 100 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court FORD v. CALIFORNIA, 384 U.S. 100 (1966) 384 U.S. 100 FORD, AKA PHELAN v. CALIFORNIA. APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT. No. 1089. Decided April 25, 1966. 236 Cal. App. 2d 438, 46 Cal. Rptr. 144, appeal dismissed. Richard G. Harris for appellant. PER CURIAM. The appeal is dismissed for want of a substantial federal question. KRAMER v. UNITED STATES, 384 U.S. 100 (1966) 384 U.S. 100 (1966) "> U.S. Supreme Court KRAMER v. UNITED STATES, 384 U.S. 100 (1966) 384 U.S. 100 KRAMER ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. No. 1114. Decided April 25, 1966. Certiorari granted; 355 F.2d 891 , partially vacated and remanded. Anna R. Lavin and Frank J. McGarr for petitioners. Solicitor General Marshall, Assistant Attorney General Vinson and Beatrice Rosenberg for the United States. ...
Seagram and Sons Vs. Hostetter
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-19-1966
Seagram & Sons v. Hostetter - 384 U.S. 35 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court Seagram & Sons v. Hostetter, 384 U.S. 35 (1966) Seagram & Sons v. Hostetter No 545 Argued February 23, 1966 Decided April 19, 1966 384 U.S. 35 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NEW YORK Syllabus Appellants, distillers, wholesalers, or importers of distilled spirits, sued in a New York court to enjoin enforcement principally of 9 of Chapter 531, 1964 Session Laws of New York, and to secure a declaratory judgment of its unconstitutionality under the Commerce Clause, the Supremacy Clause, and the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Section 9, part of a sweeping redirection of New York's policy regulating the sale of liquor in the State, requires that monthly price schedules for sales to wholesales and retailers filed with the State Liquor Authority must be accompanied by an affirmation that the bottle and case price of liquor is "no higher than the lowest price" at which sal...
United States Vs. Cook
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Apr-19-1966
United States v. Cook - 384 U.S. 257 (1966) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Cook, 384 U.S. 257 (1966) United States v. Cook No. 256 Argued April 19, 1966 Decided May 2., 1966 384 U.S. 257 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE Syllabus 18 U.S. C. 660, prohibiting embezzlements by employees of "any firm, association, or corporation engaged in commerce as a common carrier," in view of its legislative history, the broad meaning of term "firm," and lack of reason to exclude from its protection the large number of common carriers operated as individual proprietorships, held to apply to employees of such common carriers. Pp. 384 U. S. 257 -263. Reversed. MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented is whether 18 U.S.C. 660 (1964 ed.), which prohibits certain embezzlements by employees of "any firm, association, or corporation engaged in commerce as a common carrier," [ Footnote 1 ] applies t...
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