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De Sollar Vs. Hanscome
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-20-1995
De Sollar v. Hanscome - 158 U.S. 216 (1995) U.S. Supreme Court De Sollar v. Hanscome, 158 U.S. 216 (1895) De Sollar v. Hanscome No. 303 Argued and submitted April 23, 1395 Decided May 20, 1995. 158 U.S. 216 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Syllabus It is of the essence of estoppel by judgment that it is certain that the precise fact was determined by the former judgment. Where the existence of a contract is a matter of doubt, equity will not, as a rule, decree specific performance, especially when it appears that the property to which it relates was rapidly rising in value. On June 6, 1889, the appellant, as plaintiff, filed a bill in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado for the specific performance of a contract for the sale of real estate. The defendant appeared and answered, and also filed a cross-bill, the purpose of which was to secure a decree cancelling an agreement for the sale of the re...
Reynoldsville Casket Co. Vs. Hyde
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-15-1995
Reynoldsville Casket Co. v. Hyde - 514 U.S. 749 (1995) OCTOBER TERM, 1994 Syllabus REYNOLDSVILLE CASKET CO. ET AL. v. HYDE CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO No. 94-3. Argued February 27, 1995-Decided May 15, 1995 More than three years after respondent Hyde was in an accident in Ohio with a truck owned by a Pennsylvania company, she filed suit in an Ohio county court against the company and the truck's driver, petitioners herein. The suit was timely under an Ohio provision that tolls the running of the State's 2-year statute of limitations in lawsuits against outof-state defendants. However, while her case was pending, this Court, in Bendix Autolite Corp. v. Midwesco Enterprises, Inc., 486 U. S. 888 , held that the tolling provision places an unconstitutional burden upon interstate commerce. The county court dismissed her suit as untimely, but it was ultimately reinstated by the State Supreme Court, which held that Bendix could not be applied retroactively to bar cl...
City of Edmonds Vs. Oxford House, Inc.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-15-1995
City of Edmonds v. Oxford House, Inc. - 514 U.S. 725 (1995) OCTOBER TERM, 1994 Syllabus CITY OF EDMONDS v. OXFORD HOUSE, INC., ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 94-23. Argued March 1, 1995-Decided May 15, 1995 Respondent Oxford House operates a group home in Edmonds, Washington, for 10 to 12 adults recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction in a neighborhood zoned for single-family residences. Petitioner City of Edmonds (City) issued citations to the owner and a resident of the house, charging violation of the City's zoning code. The code provides that the occupants of single-family dwelling units must compose a "family," and defines family as "persons [without regard to number] related by genetics, adoption, or marriage, or a group of five or fewer [unrelated] persons." Edmonds Community Development Code (ECDC) 21.30.010. Oxford House asserted reliance on the Fair Housing Act (FHA), which prohibits discrimination in housing ...
Kansas Vs. Colorado
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-15-1995
Kansas v. Colorado - 514 U.S. 673 (1995) OCTOBER TERM, 1994 Syllabus KANSASv. COLORADO ON EXCEPTIONS TO REPORT OF SPECIAL MASTER No. 105, Orig. Argued March 21, 1995-Decided May 15, 1995 Kansas and Colorado negotiated the Arkansas River Compact to settle disputes and remove causes of future controversies over the river's waters and to equitably divide and apportion those waters and the benefits arising from the United States' construction, operation, and maintenance of John Martin Reservoir. Under Article IV-D, the Compact is not intended to impede or prevent future beneficial developmentincluding construction of dams and reservoirs and the prolonged or improved functioning of existing works-provided that such development does not "materially deplet[e]" stateline flows "in usable quantity or availability for use." In this action, the Special Master recommended that the Court, among other things, find that post-Compact well pumping in Colorado has resulted in a violation of Articl...
Purkett Vs. Elem
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-15-1995
Purkett v. Elem - 514 U.S. 765 (1995) OCTOBER TERM, 1994 Syllabus PURKETT, SUPERINTENDENT, FARMINGTON CORRECTIONAL CENTER v. ELEM ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT No. 94-802. Decided May 15, 1995 Relying on Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U. S. 79 , respondent objected to a prosecutor's use of a peremptory challenge to strike, inter alios, a black male juror from the jury at his robbery trial. The Missouri trial court overruled the objection after the prosecutor explained that he struck the juror because of the juror's long, unkempt hair, his moustache, and his beard. The jury was empaneled, and respondent was convicted. On direct appeal, the State Court of Appeals affirmed the Batson ruling, concluding that the prosecution had not engaged in purposeful discrimination. In denying respondent's subsequent petition for habeas corpus, the Federal District Court concluded that the state courts' purposeful discriminatio...
Hubbard Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-15-1995
Hubbard v. United States - 514 U.S. 695 (1995) OCTOBER TERM, 1994 Syllabus HUBBARD v. UNITED STATES CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT No. 94-172. Argued February 21, 1995-Decided May 15, 1995 Petitioner's falsehoods in unsworn papers filed in Bankruptcy Court prompted his indictment under 18 U. S. C. 1001, which criminalizes false statements and similar misconduct occurring "in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States." He was convicted after the District Court, relying on United States v. Bramblett, 348 U. S. 503 , instructed the jury that a bankruptcy court is a "department of the United States" within 1001's meaning. In affirming, the Court of Appeals concluded that the so-called "judicial nmction" exception developed in other Circuits, under which 1001 reaches false statements made while a court is performing its "administrative" or "housekeeping" functions, but not its adjudicative fun...
Pacific Railroad
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-06-1995
Pacific Railroad - 158 U.S. 118 (1995) U.S. Supreme Court Pacific Railroad, 158 U.S. 118 (1895) Pacific Railroad No. 233 Submitted April 15, 1895 Decided May 6, 1995 158 U.S. 118 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS Syllabus Congress having appropriated in payment of a judgment against the United States in the Court of Claims the full amount of the judgment, with a provision in the appropriation law that the sum thus appropriated shall be in full satisfaction of the judgment, and the judgment debtor having accepted that sum in payment of the judgment debt, the debtor is estopped from claiming interest on the judgment debt under Rev. Stat. 1090. On May 2, 1888, the Pacific Railroad, a corporation of the State of Missouri, filed in the Court of Claims a petition seeking to recover interest on certain judgments it had previously Page 158 U. S. 119 obtained against the United States. There was a traverse denying the allegations of the petition. Evidence was adduced, and the cause...
United States Vs. Robertson
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: May-01-1995
United States v. Robertson - 514 U.S. 669 (1995) OCTOBER TERM, 1994 Syllabus UNITED STATES v. ROBERTSON CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT No. 94-251. Argued February 27, 1995-Decided May 1, 1995 Respondent Robertson's investment in his Alaska gold mine of the proceeds from his unlawful narcotics activities prompted a federal indictment for violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which makes it a crime for any person to use or invest any income derived from a pattern of racketeering activity in the "acquisition of any interest in, or the establishment or operation of, any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate ... commerce," 18 U. S. C. 1962(a). Robertson was convicted on this charge, but the Court of Appeals reversed, concluding that the Government had failed to introduce sufficient evidence that the gold mine (the RICO "enterprise") was "engaged in or affect[ed] inter...
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