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Great Aandp; Tea Co., Inc. Vs. Cottrell
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-25-1976
Great A&P; Tea Co., Inc. v. Cottrell - 424 U.S. 366 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Great A&P; Tea Co., Inc. v. Cottrell, 424 U.S. 366 (1976) Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc. v. Cottrell No. 74-1148 Argued December 1, 1975 Decided February 25, 1976 424 U.S. 366 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI Syllabus A Mississippi regulation provides that milk and milk products from another State may be sold in Mississippi only if the other State accepts milk or milk products produced and processed in Mississippi on a reciprocal basis. Appellant's application for a permit to distribute for sale at its retail outlets in Mississippi milk and milk products from its Louisiana processing plant was denied solely on the ground that Louisiana had not signed a reciprocity agreement with Mississippi as required by the regulation. Appellant then brought suit claiming that the regulation violated the Commerce Clause, but a three-judge District Cour...
De Canas Vs. Bica
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-25-1976
De Canas v. Bica - 424 U.S. 351 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court De Canas v. Bica, 424 U.S. 351 (1976) De Canas v. Bica No. 74-882 Argued December 16, 1975 Decided February 25, 1976 424 U.S. 351 CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT Syllabus Section 2805(a) of the California Labor Code, which prohibits an employer from knowingly employing an alien who is not entitled to lawful residence in the United States if such employment would have an adverse effect on lawful resident workers, held not to be unconstitutional as a regulation of immigration or as being preempted under the Supremacy Clause by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Pp. 424 U. S. 354 -365. (a) Standing alone, the fact that aliens are the subject of a state statute does not render it a regulation of immigration. Even if such local regulation has some purely speculative and indirect impact on immigration, it does not thereby become a constitutionally proscribed regulation ...
Flamm Vs. Real-blt, Inc.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-25-1976
Flamm v. Real-Blt, Inc. - 424 U.S. 1313 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Flamm v. Real-Blt, Inc., 424 U.S. 1313 (1976) Flamm v. Real-Blt, Inc. No. A-731 (75-6263) Decided February 25, 1976 424 U.S. 1313 ON APPLICATION FOR STAY Syllabus Application to stay Montana Supreme Court's judgment reversing trial court's judgment that applicant tenant was entitled to certain rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment before being evicted from respondent landlord's federally subsidized low income housing project, is denied in view of lease provision that either party to lease may terminate it by giving 30 days' written notice to other party, thus making it unnecessary to reach any due process issue. MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, Circuit Justice. Applicant requests that I stay the judgment of the Supreme Court of Montana in this proceeding contesting her eviction. As matters currently stand, that court has denied a stay and applicant will be evicted on February 29. Applicant lives i...
Mathews Vs. Eldridge
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-24-1976
Mathews v. Eldridge - 424 U.S. 319 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319 (1976) Mathews v. Eldridge No. 74-204 Argued October 6, 1975 Decided February 24, 1976 424 U.S. 319 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT Syllabus In order to establish initial and continued entitlement to disability benefits under the Social Security Act (Act), a worker must demonstrate that, inter alia, he is unable "to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment. . . ." The worker bears the continuing burden of showing, by means of "medically acceptable . . . techniques" that his impairment is of such severity that he cannot perform his previous work or any other kind of gainful work. A state agency makes the continuing assessment of the worker's eligibility for benefits, obtaining information from the worker and his sources of medical treatment. The agency may arrange for a...
Alamo Land and Cattle Co., Inc. Vs. Arizona
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-24-1976
Alamo Land & Cattle Co., Inc. v. Arizona - 424 U.S. 295 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Alamo Land & Cattle Co., Inc. v. Arizona, 424 U.S. 295 (1976) Alamo Land & Cattle Co., Inc. v. Arizona No. 74-125 Argued October 14-15, 1975 Decided February 24, 1976 424 U.S. 295 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus In 1962 Arizona, as lessor, and petitioner, as lessee, executed a 10-year grazing lease of certain tracts of land which had been granted to Arizona to be held in trust under the New Mexico-Arizona Enabling Act. In 1966, the United States filed a condemnation complaint in connection with a flood control dam and reservoir which included the leased tracts. In allocating the stipulated compensation payable by the United States for the tracts, the District Court awarded Arizona a certain amount for its fee interest and petitioner one amount for the improvements and another amount for "its leasehold interest at the time of taking and its reason...
Bradley Vs. Lunding
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-17-1976
Bradley v. Lunding - 424 U.S. 1309 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Bradley v. Lunding, 424 U.S. 1309 (1976) Bradley v. Lunding No. A-695 (75-1146) Decided February 17, 1976 424 U.S. 1309 ON APPLICATION FOR STAY Syllabus Application by appellant independent candidates for judicial office in Illinois for stay, pending this Court's disposition of appeal, of Illinois Supreme Court's judgment reversing Circuit Court's order enjoining appellee State Board of Elections Commissioners from conducting a lottery to assign ballot positions in accordance with Board regulation prescribing lottery system for breaking ties resulting from simultaneous filing of petitions for nomination to elective office, is denied, where there is insufficient indication of unfairness or irreparable injury and (because the questions presented by the appeal are capable of repetition) no suggestion that the forthcoming election will moot the case. MR. JUSTICE STEVENS, Circuit Justice. On February 13, 1976, appellan...
Coleman Vs. Paccar Inc.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-02-1976
Coleman v. PACCAR Inc. - 424 U.S. 1301 (1976) U.S. Supreme Court Coleman v. PACCAR Inc., 424 U.S. 1301 (1976) Coleman v. PACCAR Inc. No. A-651 Decided February 2, 1976 424 U.S. 1301 ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY Syllabus Application by the Secretary of Transportation to vacate the Court of Appeals' order staying the operation of a certain motor vehicle safety standard, which was before the court upon respondents' petition for review, is granted, where it appears that the Court of Appeals, in ordering the stay, failed to consider the likelihood of respondents' success on the merits, and the Secretary has demonstrated that irreparable harm might result from the stay. MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, Circuit Justice. Applicant Secretary of Transportation has moved to vacate a stay order entered by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a case presently pending before that court. The case arose in that court by reason of a petition for review of amendments to a motor...
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