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K Mart Corp. Vs. Cartier, Inc.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-31-1988
K Mart Corp. v. Cartier, Inc. - 486 U.S. 281 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court K Mart Corp. v. Cartier, Inc., 486 U.S. 281 (1988) K Mart Corp. v. Cartier, Inc. No. 86-495 Argued October 6, 1987 Reargued April 26, 1988 Decided May 31, 1988 486 U.S. 281 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Syllabus A gray-market good is a foreign-manufactured good, bearing a valid United States trademark, that is imported without the consent of the United States trademark holder. The gray market arises in three general contexts. In case 1, despite a domestic firm's having purchased from an independent foreign firm the rights to register and use the latter's trademark as a United States trademark and to sell its foreign-manufactured products here, the foreign firm imports the trademarked goods and distributes them here, or sells them abroad to a third party who imports them here. In case 2, after the United States trademark for goods manufactured abroa...
Ferc Vs. MartIn Exploration Mgmt. Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-31-1988
FERC v. Martin Exploration Mgmt. Co. - 486 U.S. 204 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court FERC v. Martin Exploration Mgmt. Co., 486 U.S. 204 (1988) FERC v. Martin Exploration Management Co. No. 87-363 Argued March 28, 1988 Decided May 31, 1988 486 U.S. 204 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT Syllabus To cover the situation of overlapping provisions of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 fixing price ceilings for sales of various categories of natural gas and providing for phased deregulation, 101(b)(5) of the Act states that, if any natural gas qualifies under more than one provision providing for any maximum lawful price or for any exemption from such a price with respect to certain sales of gas, "the provision which could result in the highest price shall be applicable." The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) promulgated a regulation interpreting 101(b)(5) (and 121, which relates to phased deregulation) to mean that any gas that is qualif...
New Energy Co. Vs. Limbach
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-31-1988
New Energy Co. v. Limbach - 486 U.S. 269 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court New Energy Co. v. Limbach, 486 U.S. 269 (1988) New Energy Company of Indiana v. Limbach No. 87-654 Argued March 29, 1988 Decided May 31, 1988 486 U.S. 269 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO Syllabus An Ohio statute awards a tax credit against the Ohio motor vehicle fuel sales tax for each gallon of ethanol sold (as a component of gasohol) by fuel dealers, but only if the ethanol is produced in Ohio or, if produced in another State, to the extent that State grants similar tax advantages to ethanol produced in Ohio. Appellant, an Indiana limited partnership, manufactures ethanol in Indiana, which has no sales tax exemption for ethanol, wherefore appellant's ethanol sold in Ohio is ineligible for the Ohio tax credit. Appellant sought declaratory and injunctive relief in the Ohio Court of Common Pleas of Franklin County, alleging that the Ohio tax credit violates the Commerce Clause of the Federal Constitution...
Fdic Vs. Mallen
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-31-1988
FDIC v. Mallen - 486 U.S. 230 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court FDIC v. Mallen, 486 U.S. 230 (1988) FDIC v. Mallen No. 87-82 Argued March 22, 1988 Decided May 31, 1988 486 U.S. 230 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA Syllabus Title 12 U.S.C. 1818(g)(1) authorizes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to suspend from office an indicted official of a federally insured bank if his continued service poses a threat to the interests of the bank's depositors or threatens to impair public confidence in the bank. Section 1818(g)(3) entitles a suspended official to a hearing before the FDIC within 30 days of his written request, and to a final decision within 60 days of the hearing. At the hearing, the official may "submit written materials (or, at the discretion of the agency, oral testimony) and oral argument." The FDIC suspended appellee, the president and a director of a federally insured bank, after he was indicted for making false ...
Amadeo Vs. Zant
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-31-1988
Amadeo v. Zant - 486 U.S. 214 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court Amadeo v. Zant, 486 U.S. 214 (1988) Amadeo v. Zant No. 87-5277 Argued March 28, 1988 Decided May 31, 1988 486 U.S. 214 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Petitioner was convicted of murder and criminal attempt to commit theft in the Superior Court of Putnam County, Georgia. In accordance with the jury's recommendation of death, the court imposed the death penalty for the murder charge, and a 10-year sentence for the attempted theft charge. While petitioner's direct appeal was pending, an independent civil action involving a challenge to voting procedures in Putnam County was brought in Federal District Court, which found that a memorandum from the District Attorney's Office to the Putnam County Jury Commissioners was intentionally designed to result in underrepresentation of black people and women in the master jury lists from which all grand and traverse (petit) juries w...
Satterwhite Vs. Texas
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-31-1988
Satterwhite v. Texas - 486 U.S. 249 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court Satterwhite v. Texas, 486 U.S. 249 (1988) Satterwhite v. Texas No. 86-6284 Argued December 8, 1987 Decided May 31, 1988 486 U.S. 249 CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS Syllabus After petitioner was charged with the capital crime of murder committed during a robbery, but before he was represented by counsel, he was subjected to a court-ordered examination by a psychologist to determine his competency to stand trial, sanity at the time of the offense, and future dangerousness. Petitioner was not served with copies of the State's motion for the examination or the court's order. Petitioner was later indicted, counsel was appointed to represent him, and he was arraigned. The District Attorney, without serving a copy of his motion on defense counsel, requested a second psychiatric evaluation of petitioner as to the same matters. Without determining whether defense counsel had been notified of the State...
Budinich Vs. Becton Dickinson
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-23-1988
Budinich v. Becton Dickinson - 486 U.S. 196 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court Budinich v. Becton Dickinson, 486 U.S. 196 (1988) Budinich v. Becton Dickinson No. 87-283 Argued March 21, 1988 Decided May 23, 1988 486 U.S. 196 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT Syllabus In petitioner's employment compensation action, which respondent removed from a Colorado state court to the Federal District Court on the basis of diversity of citizenship, judgment was entered on the jury's verdict for petitioner in an amount considerably less than he had sought. Petitioner timely filed new trial motions and a motion for attorney's fees under Colorado law. On May 14, 1984, the court denied the new trial motions, but found that petitioner was entitled to attorney's fees, and, on August 1, 1984, entered a final order determining the amount of the fees. On August 29, petitioner filed notice of appeal to the Court of Appeals, covering all of the District Court's post-tr...
Goodyear Atomic Corp. Vs. Miller
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-23-1988
Goodyear Atomic Corp. v. Miller - 486 U.S. 174 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court Goodyear Atomic Corp. v. Miller, 486 U.S. 174 (1988) Goodyear Atomic Corp. v. Miller No. 86-1172 Argued January 19, 1988 Decided May 23, 1988 486 U.S. 174 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO Syllabus Appellee Miller, an employee of appellant at an Ohio nuclear production facility owned by the United States but operated by appellant, a private contractor, received a workers' compensation award from appellee Ohio Industrial Commission (Commission) for injuries sustained in a fall allegedly caused by a bolt protruding from the scaffold on which he was working. On the basis of a state safety regulation prohibiting scaffolds from having projecting parts, Miller then sought a supplemental award under a state constitutional provision authorizing such an award when an injury is caused by an employer's failure to comply with any specific state safety requirement. The Commission denied the claim, but the State ...
Wheat Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-23-1988
Wheat v. United States - 486 U.S. 153 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court Wheat v. United States, 486 U.S. 153 (1988) Wheat v. United States No. 87-4 Argued March 2, 1988 Decided May 23, 1988 486 U.S. 153 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Petitioner, along with numerous codefendants, including Gomez-Barajas and Bravo, was charged with participating in a far-flung drug distribution conspiracy. At the time of petitioner's trial, the District Court was considering Gomez-Barajas' offer to plead guilty to certain charges stemming from the conspiracy, and had already accepted Bravo's guilty plea to one count. Both Gomez-Barajas and Bravo were represented by attorney Iredale. Two court days before his trial was to commence, petitioner moved for the substitution of Iredale as his counsel as well. Despite petitioner's assertion of his Sixth Amendment right to the counsel of his choice, and his willingness, as well as that of Gomez-Barajas and Brav...
Bankers Life and Cas. Co. Vs. Crenshaw
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-16-1988
Bankers Life & Cas. Co. v. Crenshaw - 486 U.S. 71 (1988) U.S. Supreme Court Bankers Life & Cas. Co. v. Crenshaw, 486 U.S. 71 (1988) Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw No. 85-1765 Argued November 30, 1987 Decided May 16, 1988 486 U.S. 71 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI Syllabus In a state court suit upon an insurance claim for loss of a limb, the jury awarded appellee the $20,000 provided by his policy and punitive damages of $1.6 million based on appellant's bad-faith refusal to pay the claim. Concluding that the punitive damages award was not excessive in light of appellant's financial worth and the degree of its wrongdoing, the Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed the verdict without modification, and assessed an additional 15% penalty against appellant in accordance with a state statute imposing such a penalty on parties who appeal unsuccessfully from money judgments or other categories of judgments whose value may be readily determined. Although the appea...
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