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# Federal Communications Commission v. RCA Communications, Inc./Dissent Douglas

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* Case Syllabus
* Opinion of the Court
* Dissenting Opinion Douglas
United States Supreme Court
346 U.S. 86
Federal Communications Commission v. RCA Communications, Inc.
Argued: April 29 and 30, 1953. --- Decided: June 8, 1953
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS, dissenting.
I agree with the Court that it is necessary under the Federal Communications Act to establish that the licensing of a competitive service offers a reasonable expectation of some beneficial effect, measured by the public interest. That was indeed the view of the Court of Appeals. But on this record the facts are that
-existing facilities are in excess of those required to handle present and expected traffic;
-the proposed operations will redistribute present traffic rather than generate new traffic;
-the proposed service will not lower rates nor speed up transmission nor improve the existing service in any respect;
-the proposed service will aid Mackay financially and be detrimental to RCA;
-this is a field where without the proposed service there is active competition and an excess of facilities to meet present or expected needs.
I therefore agree with Judge Edgerton's opinion for the Court of Appeals 91 U.S.App.D.C. 289, 201 F.2d 694, that on this showing the Commission acted without authority and that its order should be set aside. On the record before us the facts are so unequivocal that there is no apparent way for the Commission to meet the standard approved both here and below. There is therefore no occasion for a remand. I would affirm the judgment below.

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# Federal Communications Commission v. Sanders Brothers Radio Station

United States Supreme Court
309 U.S. 642
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION v. SANDERS BROS. RADIO STATION.
Argued: Feb. 9, 1940. --- Decided: March 25, 1940
As Amended on Denial of Rehearing April 22, 1940.
Messrs. Robert H. Jackson, Atty. Gen., and William J. Dempsey, of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Mr. Louis G. Caldwell, of Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Federal Communications Commission v. National Broadcasting Company

United States Supreme Court
319 U.S. 239
Federal Communications Commission v. National Broadcasting Company
Argued: April 8, 9, 1943. --- Decided: May 17, 1943
Mr. Paul A. Freund, of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Mr. Philip J. Hennessey, Jr., of Washington, D.C., for respondents.
Mr. Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Company

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United States Supreme Court
309 U.S. 134
Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Company
Argued: Jan. 11, 1940. --- Decided: Jan 29, 1940
Robert H. Jackson, Sol. Gen., for petitioner.
Messrs. Charles D. Drayton and Eliot C. Lovett, both of Washington, D.C., for respondent.
[Argument of Counsel from page 135 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Federal Communications Commission v. Columbia Broadcasting System of California Federal Communications Commission

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United States Supreme Court
311 U.S. 132
Federal Communications Commission v. Columbia Broadcasting System of California Federal Communications Commission
Argued: Nov. 15, 1940. --- Decided: Nov 25, 1940
Messrs. Robert H. Jackson, Atty. Gen., and Telford Taylor, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for petitioner.
Mr. Duke M. Patrick, of Washington, D.C., for respondent Columbia Broadcasting System of California, Inc.
No appearance for respondent Associated Broadcasters, Inc.
Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Gelfert v. National City Bank of New York

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United States Supreme Court
313 U.S. 221
Gelfert v. National City Bank of New York
Argued: April 3, 4, 1941. --- Decided: April 28, 1941
Mr. George Link, Jr., of New York City, for petitioner.
Mr. Barney B. Fensterstock, of New York City, for respondent.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 222-226 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Geller v. Randi

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This is the December 9, 1994 District of Columbia Court Of Appeals decision in Uri Geller vs. James Randi. It was taken from http://www.mindspring.com/~anson/randi-hotline/appeal.html
* Court Documents
* Opinion of the Court
* 40 F.3d 1300
* Uri GELLER, Apellant
* v.
* James RANDI, a/k/a Adam Jersin, a/k/a Donald, a/k/a Truth's Bodyguard, a/k/a The Amazing Randi, a/k/a Randall James Zwinge; Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, Appellees.
* No. 93-7140
* United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
* Argued October 6, 1994
* Decided December 9, 1994
* Rehearing Denied January 25, 1995
* As Amended March 2, 1995
Before Wald, Sentelle, and Rogers, Circuit Judges.
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge Sentelle.

## See also

* John Doe v. Uri Geller
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# Gelling v. Texas/Concurrence Douglas

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* Concurring Opinions Frankfurter Douglas
United States Supreme Court
343 U.S. 960
Gelling v. Texas
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS, concurring.
The appellant was convicted under an ordinance of the city of Marshall, Texas, for exhibiting a picture after being denied permission to do so by the local Board of Censors. The conviction was affirmed by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas. The ordinance authorizes a local Board of Censors to deny permission for the showing of a motion picture, which in the opinion of the Board is 'of such character as to be prejudicial to the best interests of the people of said City,' and it makes the showing of a picture after refusal of permission a misdemeanor.
The evil of prior restraint, condemned by Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697, 51 S.Ct. 625, 75 L.Ed. 1357, in the case of newspapers and by Burstyn v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495, 72 S.Ct. 777, in the case of motion pictures, is present here in flagrant form. If a board of censors can tell the American people what it is in their best interests to see or to read or to hear (cf. Public Utilities Comm'n v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 72 S.Ct. 813), then thought is regimented, authority substituted for liberty, and the great purpose of the First Amendment to keep uncontrolled the freedom of expression defeated.

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# Gelling v. Texas/Concurrence Frankfurter

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* Concurring Opinions Frankfurter Douglas
United States Supreme Court
343 U.S. 960
Gelling v. Texas
Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER, concurring in the judgment of reversal:
The appellant here was convicted under an ordinance of the city of Marshall, Texas, for exhibiting a picture after being denied a license by the local Board of Censors, and the conviction was affirmed by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas. The ordinance authorizes a local Board of Censors to deny a license for the showing of a motion picture, which the Board is 'of the opinion' is 'of such character as to be prejudicial to the best interests of the people of said City,' and makes the showing of a picture without a license a misdemeanor. This ordinance offends the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment on the score of indefiniteness. See my concurring opinion in Burstyn v. Wilson, 343 U.S. 495, 72 S.Ct. 777 and Winters v. New York, 333 U.S. 507, 68 S.Ct. 665, 92 L.Ed. 840.

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# Gelling v. Texas

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## Concurring Opinions

    Frankfurter
    Douglas
United States Supreme Court
343 U.S. 960
Gelling v. Texas
Concurring Opinion of Justice Jackson June 9, 1952.
Messrs. Robert H. Park, Herbert Wechsler, Philip J. O'Brien, Jr. and Sidney Schreiber, for appellant.
Messrs. Price Daniel, Attorney General of Texas, and E. Jacobson, Assistant Attorney General, for appelee.
PER CURIAM.

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# From President to Prison/Collaborator's Note

COLLABORATOR'S NOTE
AGAIN it has been my pleasure to assist Dr. Ossendowski in the textual preparation of a manuscript which contains material of unique appeal.
In this volume he gives an account of his personal experiences during the Russo-Japanese War and in the Revolution of 1905, as it affected the Far East, and offers what is probably the most intimate picture of the life of the Russian prisons in Siberia and Manchuria that has ever been drawn for the western world by one who has himself lived through the regime of these institutions.
By the medium of these experiences he presents a strong arraignment of the Tsar and his officials for the errors they committed in the handling of their own and their subject peoples, and admits us also to a most esoteric revelation of the psychology of prison life.
In his story we have likewise a fair epitome of the whole tragic history of that great body of Poles which has been forced to find its life under the dominating overlordship of the Tsars and which has constantly struggled toward the hope of a renewed existence of freedom. Though of no direct benefit to the movement in which he participated, his imprisonment produced unexpected results in another feature of Russian life. This was in the prisons themselves. For, as he indicates in the closing chapter of his text, he wrote a romance based upon his prison experiences, which contained such ​stirring material and was so strongly phrased that it at once brought down upon him the censure and renewed persecutions of the Russian Government. The volume was condemned and confiscated and proceedings were instituted to secure his return to those very walls of which he had written so dramatically.
When the first edition was burned, he had a second brought out under a slightly different title and a copy of this placed on the desk of each member of the Duma just as it went on sale. The result was that these representatives of the people were so stirred by his presentation of the life within the prisons that they took the matter up in the Duma and finally forced the Government's hand to institute reforms in their administration. The principal changes which resulted were the segregation of the prisoners in such a way that only the most hardened and vicious criminals were thrown together in the large common cells; the provision of reasonable work for the inmates; the establishment of libraries and occasional talks for the men; and the emphasizing to the officials of the necessity for seeking to ameliorate the moral state of mind of the condemned.
As it was a uniquely significant result of his efforts on behalf of those unfortunate ones whom he had left behind within what he so picturesquely calls the "stone sack," so must it have been a tribute of peculiar appeal to Dr. Ossendowski, when he received an immense address carrying the signatures of many thousands of criminal prisoners, expressing a profound appreciation of his work for them, as well as those of the two eminent writers, Leo Tolstoi and W. Korolenko.
Lewis Stanton Palen.
Le Bouveret, Switzerland,
June, 1925.
# Gadsby/Chapter 42

XLII
Lady Gadsby and His Honor sat in Branton Hills’ First Church, on a hot July Sunday. Out-doors, twitting birds, lacy clouds, and gay blossoms, told of happy hours in this long, bright month. Pastor Brown, announcing a hymn, said:—
“This is a charming hymn. Our choir always sings it without company; but today, I want all you good folks to join in. Just pour forth your joy and sing it, good and strongly.”
That hymn had six stanzas; and Gadsby, noting an actually grand bass singing just back of him, thought of turning around, from curiosity; and as that fifth stanza was starting, said to Lady Gadsby:—
“Do you know who that is, singing that grand bass part?”
Lady Gadsby didn’t; but Lady Gadsby was a woman; and, from Noah’s Ark to Branton Hills’ First Church, woman, as a branch of Mankind, was curious. So a slow casual turning brought a dig in His Honor’s ribs:—
“It’s Norman Antor!”
Pastor Brown, standing at that big church ​door as folks, filing out would stop for a word or two, said to Gadsby:—
“Young Antor is invariably in church, now-a-days. I may add to my choir, and am thinking of putting him in it. I’m so glad to find out about that boy winning his fight. I always thought Norman would turn out all right.”
Pastor Brown was right; and two Branton Hills girls, a Salvation Army lady, and a tiny tot of six had won crowns of Glory, from throwing rays of light into two badly stagnant Minds.
# Gadsby/Chapter 36

XXXVI
It was night again. That small Salvation Army group was parading and singing. A young girl would soon start a long oration against drink. Now boys, gawking as boys always do, saw a shadowy form of a man slinking along from doorway to doorway, plainly watching this marching group, but also, plainly trying to stay out of sight. A halt, a song or two, and Mary Antor was soon walking towards Old Lady Flanagan’s cabin. But!! In passing big, dark City Park, a man, rushing wildly up, wrapping that frail form in a cast-iron grip, planting kiss upon kiss upon Mary’s lips, finally unwound that grip and stood stiffly in military saluting position. Mary, naturally in a bad fright, took a short, anxious, inquiring look, and instantly, all that part of City Park actually rang with a wild girlish cry:—
“Norman!!!”
“Hulloa, kiddo! Just got in, half an hour ago, on a small troop train; and, by luck, saw you marching in that group. Wow!! But you do look grand!”
“And you look grand, too, Norman; but—but—but—not drunk?”
​“No, sis! Not for many a day now. Saw too much of it in camp. Big, grand, corking good chaps down and out from it. Days and days in jail, military jail, you know, and finally finding a ‘bad conduct’ stamp on Company books. No, sir; I’m off it, for good!”
On old Lady Flanagan’s porch Mary sat way past midnight with, no, not with Norman, only, but with two khaki-clad boys; and it was miraculous that that small, loving childish bosom could hold so much joy! Old Lady Flanagan in nightgown and cap, looking down a front stairway, (and Old Man Flanagan, also in nightgown and cap, and also looking down), said:—
“Arrah!! Go wan oop stairs, you snoopin’ varmit!”
“Who’s a snoopin’ varmint? Not you, of——”
“Go wan oop, I say! By golly! That darlin’ girl has found a mountain of gold wid Norman an’——”
“Who’s that wid Norman? That guy’s around, nights, now, as—”
“Say, you!! Do you go oop? Or do I swat you?”
# Gadsby/Chapter 37

XXXVII
Bill Gadsby, going abroad, naturally wasn’t on that ballot for Councilman Antor’s chair; but this history shows that that mouthy antagonist who had had so much to say about “pink satin ribbons” and “vanilla sprays,” didn’t win. No. A first class man got that position; old Tom Young, Sarah’s Dad, as good an old soul as any in all Branton Hills. And was Sarah happy! Oh, my! And was Sarah proud! Two “oh, mys!” Tiny Nancy, loyal as always to Bill, said:—
“Bill was as good as in, for nobody, knowing my Bill would ballot against him; and Bill would hold that honor now, but for ‘Old Glory’s’ calling.”
That’s right, Nancy darling, you stick up for Bill; for, though Bill didn’t know it until many months, a citation “for outstanding and valorous conduct in action” was soon to go through our National Printing Plant! For a “city fop” or an “outdoor part of a tailor shop” is not always a boob, you know.
Gadsby’s mansion was again brightly aglow that night, that “World War flag” not hanging in his window now. And so, on Labor Day night, ​Lady Gadsby and His Honor, sitting in his parlor, thought that a light footfall was sounding out on his porch. As Gadsby got up to find out about it, Julius, coming in with a young girl, stood looking, grinningly, at Lady Gadsby; who, jumping up, said, happily:—
“Why! Mary Antor!!”
“No, Ma,” said Julius. “This is not Mary Antor.”
“Not Mary Antor? Why, Julius, I think I know M——”
“Not Mary Antor, Ma, but Mary Gadsby!”
“Oh! Oh! My darling girl!!” and half crying and half laughing, Mary was snuggling in Lady Gadsby’s arms; and His Honor, coming in, saying:—
“By golly! That young cuss, Cupid, is mighty busy around this town! Why, I can hardly walk two blocks along Broadway, without a young girl, who has ‘grown up in a night,’ stopping, and saying: ‘Mayor Gadsby, this is my husband.’ But I’ll say that Cupid’s marksmanship has always brought about happy matings. And, Mary, you darling kid, your sad, dark shadows will gradually pass; and Lady Gadsby and I will try to bring you loads and loads of comfort. But, say, you, Julius! I didn’t know that you and Mary——”
​“Ho, ho” said Mary, laughing. “Didn’t you know that Julius and Norman and I sat out nights on old Lady Flanagan’s porch?”
“Why, no; how should I? I don’t go snooping around anybody’s porch.”
“Ha, ha, Dad,” said Julius; “no snooping would find that out. Mary and I had had this plan so long ago that I didn’t know a World War was coming!”
# Grimm's Household Tales, Volume 2/The Hazel-Branch

10.—THE HAZEL-BRANCH.
One afternoon the Christ-child had laid himself in his cradle-bed and had fallen asleep. Then his mother came to him, looked at him full of gladness, and said, "Hast ​thou laid thyself down to sleep, my child? Sleep sweetly, and in the meantime I will go into the wood, and fetch thee a handful of strawberries, for I know that thou wilt be pleased with them when thou awakest." In the wood outside, she found a spot with the most beautiful strawberries; but as she was stooping down to gather one, an adder sprang up out of the grass. She was alarmed, left the strawberries where they were, and hastened away. The adder darted after her; but Our Lady, as you can readily understand, knew what it was best to do. She hid herself behind a hazel-bush, and stood there until the adder had crept away again. Then she gathered the strawberries, and as she set out on her way home she said, "As the hazel-bush has been my protection this time, it shall in future protect others also." Therefore, from the most remote times, a green hazel-branch has been the safest protection against adders, snakes, and everything else which creeps on the earth.
# Grimm's Household Tales, Volume 2/The Fox and the Horse

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132.—THE FOX AND THE HORSE.
A Peasant had a faithful horse which had grown old and could do no more work, so his master would no longer give him anything to eat and said, "I can certainly make no more use of thee, but still I mean well by thee; if thou provest thyself still strong enough to bring me a lion here, I will maintain thee, but now take thyself away out of my stable," and with that he chased him into the open ​country. The horse was sad, and went to the forest to seek a little protection there from the weather. Then the fox met him and said, "Why dost thou hang thy head so, and go about all alone?" "Alas," replied the horse, "avarice and fidelity do not dwell together in one house. My master has forgotten what services I have performed for him for so many years, and because I can no longer plough well, he will give me no more food, and has driven me out." "Without giving thee a chance?" asked the fox. "The chance was a bad one. He said, if I were still strong enough to bring him a lion, he would keep me, but he well knows that I cannot do that." The fox said, "I will help thee, just lay thyself down, stretch thyself out, as if thou wert dead, and do not stir." The horse did as the fox desired, and the fox went to the lion, who had his den not far off, and said, "A dead horse is lying outside there, just come with me, thou canst have a rich meal." The lion went with him, and when they were both standing by the horse the fox said, "After all it is not very comfortable for thee here—I tell thee what—I will fasten it to thee by the tail, and then thou canst drag it into thy cave, and devour it in peace."
This advice pleased the lion: he lay down, and in order that the fox might tie the horse fast to him, he kept quite quiet. But the fox tied the lion's legs together with the horse's tail, and twisted and fastened all so well and so strongly that no strength could break it. When he had finished his work, he tapped the horse on the shoulder and said, "Pull, white horse, pull." Then up sprang the horse at once, and drew the lion away with him. The lion began to roar so that all the birds in the forest flew out in terror, but the horse let him roar, and drew him and dragged him over the country to his master's door. When the master saw the lion, he was of a better mind, and said to the horse, "Thou shalt stay with me and fare well," and he gave him plenty to eat until he died.
# Grimm's Household Tales, Volume 2/The Golden Key

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200.—THE GOLDEN KEY.
In the winter time, when deep snow lay on the ground, a poor boy was forced to go out on a sledge to fetch wood. When he had gathered it together, and packed it, he wished, as he was so frozen with cold, not to go home at once, but to light a fire and warm himself a little. So he scraped away the snow, and as he was thus clearing the ground, he found a tiny, gold key. Hereupon he thought that where the key was, the lock must be also, and dug in the ground and found an iron chest. "If the key does but fit it!" thought he; "no doubt there are precious things in that little box." He searched, but no keyhole was there. At last he discovered one, but so small that it was hardly visible. He tried it, and the key fitted it exactly. Then he turned it once round, and now we must wait until he has quite unlocked it and opened the lid, and then we shall learn what wonderful things were lying in that box.