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# Florida v. Wells/Concurrence Stevens

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* Case Syllabus
* Opinion of the Court
* Concurring Opinions Brennan Stevens Blackmun
Justice STEVENS, concurring in the judgment.
While I agree with Justice BLACKMUN's opinion, I think additional criticism of the Court's activism is appropriate. One must wonder why this case merited a grant of certiorari. The judgment of the Florida Supreme Court was obviously correct. Its opinion contained a minor flaw, as countless opinions do. Unless we are to become self-appointed editors of state-court opinions in the criminal law area, that is surely an insufficient reason for exercising our certiorari jurisdiction.
The flaw, of course, might impose a stricter standard for the conduct of inventory searches in Florida than the Federal Constitution actually requires, but there is no suggestion that the extra layer of protection provided to Florida citizens by the Florida Supreme Court will hamper law enforcement in that State. Apparently the mere possibility of a minor burden on law enforcement interests is enough to generate corrective action by this Court.
But then, as Justice BLACKMUN properly observes, the Court does not content itself with commenting on the flaw in the Florida Supreme Court's opinion. Instead, it plunges ahead with a flawed opinion of its own. While purportedly reaffirming the requirement of "standard criteria" to control police discretion in conducting inventory searches, see Colorado v. Bertine, 479 U.S. 367, 375, 107 S.Ct. 738, 743, 93 L.Ed.2d 739 (1987), the Court invites the State to allow their officers discretion to open-or not to open "closed containers whose contents officers determine they are unable to ascertain from examining the containers' exteriors." Ante, at 4. Thus, luggage, briefcases, handbags, brown paper bags, violin cases-indeed, virtually all containers except goldfish bowls-could be opened at the whim of the officer, whether locked or unlocked. What is left for the "standard criteria"? It is a proper part of the judicial function to make law as a necessary by-product of the process of deciding actual cases and controversies. But to reach out so blatantly and unnecessarily to make new law in a case of this kind is unabashed judicial activism.

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# Florsheim Bros Drygoods Company v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
280 U.S. 453
Florsheim Bros Drygoods Company v. United States
Argued: Jan. 13, 14, 1930. --- Decided: Feb 24, 1930
Messrs. James Craig Peacock, of Washington, D. C., and E. H. Randolph, of Shreveport, La., for the Drygoods Company.
The Attorney General and Mr. Harold C. Haskell, of Watertown, Mass., for the Rubber Company.
Mr. Claude R. Branch, of Providence, R. I.,
[Argument of Counsel from page 454 intentionally omitted] for the United States and white.
Mr. Justice BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Florsheim v. Schilling

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United States Supreme Court
137 U.S. 64
Florsheim v. Schilling
L. L. Coburn, for appellants.
L. L. Bond, for appellee.
LAMAR, J.

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# Flournoy v. Wiener

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## Dissenting Opinion

    Frankfurter
United States Supreme Court
321 U.S. 253
Flournoy v. Wiener
Argued: Feb. 4 and 7, 1944. --- Decided: Feb 28, 1944
As Amended on Denial of Rehearing Mar. 27, 1944.
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana.
Mr. Leonard L. Lockard, of Shreveport, La., for appellant.
Mr. Sidney L. Herold, of Shreveport, La., for appellees.
Mr. Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for the United States, as amicus curiae.
Mr. Max Radin, of Berkeley, Cal., for the State of California, et al., as amici curiae.
Mr. Chief Justice STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Folk-Lore/Volume 2

FOLK-LORE
A QUARTERLY REVIEW
OF
MYTH, TRADITION, INSTITUTION, & CUSTOM.
[Incorporating The Archæological Review and
The Folk-Lore Journal.]
VOL. II.—1891.
Alter et Idem
LONDON:
DAVID NUTT, 270, STRAND.
1891.
[XXVIII.]
CONTENTS.
I.—(March 1891.) :
| | PAGE |
| Opening Address to the Folk-Lore Society for the Session 1890-91.—G. L. Gomme | 1 |
| Magic Songs of the Finns, No. III.—Hon. J. Abercromby | 31 |
| The Legend of the Grail, No. I.—Dr. M. Gaster | 50 |
| Slava.—Col. Grant Maxwell | 65 |
| The Scotch Fisher Child.—Rev. Walter Gregor | 73 |
| An Early Irish Version of the Jealous Stepmother and the Exposed Child.—Alfred Nutt | 87 |
| Bhuridatta.—R. F. St. Andrew St. John | 90 |
| Report on Folk-tale Research, 1890.—E. Sidney Hartland | 99 |
| II.— (June, 1891.) ||
| Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars. Part I.—Mrs. M. C. Balfour | 145 |
| An Amazonian Custom in the Caucasus.—Hon J. Abercromby | 171 |
| Childe Rowland.—Joseph Jacobs | 182 |
| The Legend of the Grail. No. II.—Dr. M. Gaster | 198 |
| Remarks on preceding article.—Alfred Nutt | 211 |
| Report on Greek Mythology.—Prof. F. B. Jevons | 220 |
| III.— (September, 1891.) ||
| Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars. Part II.—Mrs. M. C. Balfour | 257 |
| Manx Folk-Lore and Superstitions.—Prof. J. Rhys | 284 |
| Folk-Drama.—T. Fairman-Ordish, F.S.A. | 314 |
| The Folk-Lore of Malagasy Birds.—Rev. James Sibree, Jun. | 336 |
| Mr. Stuart-Glennie on the Origins of Matriarchy.—Alfred Nutt and Joseph Jacobs | 367 |
| The International Folk-Lore Congress, 1891 | 373 |
| ​IV.— (December, 1891.) ||
| Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars. Part III.—Mrs. M. C. Balfour | 401 |
| Notes upon the Religion of the Apache Indians.—Capt. John G. Bourke | 419 |
| Samoan Stories. I.—Hon. John Abercromby | 455 |
| Weather Folk-Lore of the Sea.—Walter Gregor | 468 |
| An Explanation | 483 |
| Recent Research on Institutions.—G. Laurence Gomme, Esq., F.S.A. | 485 |
| Folk-Lore Society.—Annual Report of the Council | 502 |
| Title-Page and Contents for Vol II. |
| Notes and News (March, June, September, December) | 120, 242, 392, 500 |
| Reviews: |
| The Science of Fairy Tales.—Joseph Jacobs | 123 |
| Superstitious Beliefs and Practices of the Finns.—Hon. John Abercromby | 244 |
| Le Poème et la Légende des Nibelungen.—Alfred Nutt | 381 |
| Canti popolari Siciliani and Bibliografia Tradizioni popolari d’Italia.—Miss R. H. Busk | 390 |
| Correspondence: |
| Modern Greek Folk-lore,, W. R. Paton and Lucy M. J. Garnett.—Story of the Girl who Plucked out her own Eyes, W. A. Clouston.—Irish Tales among the Redskins, Alfred Nutt | 128 |
| Tom-Tit-Tot, Prof. Reinhard Köhler | 246 |
| Miscellanea (March, June, December) | 132,247,510 |
| Folk-lore Bibliography (March, June, September, December) | 139,249,394,514 |
| Indexes—Articles—Bibliography | 513 |
# Folk-Lore/Volume 2/An Explanation

AN EXPLANATION.
IN Mr. E. S. Hartland’s report on "Folk-tale Research" (supra, p. 99), reference was made to charges that had been formulated against Dr. E. Veckenstedt with regard to the authenticity of certain Lithuanian myths, märchen, and legends published by him. The Council of the International Folk-lore Congress called Dr. Veckenstedt’s attention to these charges, and demanded some explanation before they could proceed to nominate Dr. Veckenstedt on the International Folk-lore Council. At the same time the pages of Folk-lore were thrown open to any defence Dr. Veckenstedt might desire to offer to charges repeated in its pages. A paper was ultimately sent by Dr. Veckenstedt which was felt to be unsatisfactory, and in Dr. Veckenstedt’s interest was returned to him with a request for further details on various points. This was sent with the required modifications and additions, and was put up in type in the original German for the present number of Folk-lore. Proof was sent early in October to Dr. Veckenstedt, with request for its speedy return. No answer was given to this, and as the time of publication of Folk-lore drew near. Dr. Veckenstedt was requested by telegraph to return the proof corrected. A letter dated Nov. 27th, which reached the editor’s hands Nov. 29th, absolutely refused permission to publish the defence, on the ostensible ground that he had intended it to appear before the Congress, which was already over more than six weeks. If that had been Dr. Veckenstedt’s intention, he should surely have communicated it as soon as he received the proof of his article, and his omission to do so was a grave infraction of the laws of courtesy.
​Dr. Veckenstedt may possibly be acting in his own best interest in thus arbitrarily withdrawing his defence. Certainly our readers have not lost much by its withdrawal, except so far as it has caused some delay in the issue of the present number. But we desire to put on record that the pages of this review have been duly thrown open to a defence to charges made in it, and that after that favour had been accepted at the hands of the incriminated party, it was ungraciously refused at the last and most inconvenient moment. Every folk-lorist will be easily able to put his own construction on Dr. Veckenstedt's action.
# General Motors Corp. v. Appeal Board of Michigan Employment Security Commission/Opinion of the Court

* Court Documents
* Case Syllabus
* Per Curiam Opinion of the Court
United States Supreme Court
385 U.S. 373
General Motors Corp. v. Appeal Board of Michigan Employment Security Commission
The motions to dismiss are granted and the appeal is dismissed for want of a substantial federal question.

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# General Motors Corporation v. District of Columbia

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United States Supreme Court
380 U.S. 553
General Motors Corporation v. District of Columbia
Argued: March 10, 1965. --- Decided: April 27, 1965
Donald K. Barnes, Detroit, Mich., for petitioner.
Henry E. Wixon, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# General Motors Corporation v. Washington

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## Dissenting Opinions

    Brennan
    Goldberg
United States Supreme Court
377 U.S. 436
General Motors Corporation v. Washington
Argued: Feb. 26, 1964. --- Decided: June 8, 1964
See 85 S.Ct. 14.
Donald K. Barnes, Detroit, Mich., for appellant.
John W. Riley and Timothy R. Malone, Olympia, Wash., for appellees.
Mr. Justice CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# General Motors Corp. v. Appeal Board of Michigan Employment Security Commission

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United States Supreme Court
385 U.S. 373
General Motors Corp. v. Appeal Board of Michigan Employment Security Commission
Aloysius F. Power, for appellant.
Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen. of Michigan, Robert A. Derengoski, Sol. Gen., and George M. Bourgon and Edward J. Setlock, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellees Appeal Board of Michigan Employment Security Commission and others.
Abraham L. Zwerdling, Bruce A. Miller and Sheldon L. Klimist, for appellees Stinson and others.
PER CURIAM.

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# Folk-Lore/Volume 27/Obituary/Sir George Laurence Gomme

SIR GEORGE LAURENCE GOMME.
1853-1916.
My friendship with Sir Laurence Gomme dates from 1878, the year of the foundation of the Folk-Lore Society. For myself, the happy result was association with one of kindred tastes, cemented ​by social intercourse with an amiable and gifted man. It was his reward to see the Society in whose creation he and W. J. Thoms (he died in 1885) took the leading part advance from strength to strength, become the medium of collection of material of incalculable value for study of social evolution (including in the term social, matters intellectual and spiritual) and give the impetus to the foundation of kindred societies in Europe and America.
As manifest in his article on "Folklore" contributed to Dr. Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, he had firm grasp and correct sense of proportion in handling his subject, but when "the fields are white to harvest," the reaper must hasten each to his own plot. And Gomme's interest mainly centred round the study of material, traditional and documentary, bearing on the origin and development of village and municipal life. And this as no dryasdust antiquary, but as one revelling in the evidence of continuity in institutions linking the customs of to-day with a remote past. Some of the theories which he formulated were bound to be open to question, because of the uncertainty as to the exact meaning of the materials on which they were based, and the absence of full proof of the racial intercourse on which he laid stress. But so much in so many things is still in the melting-pot, and differences of interpretation in no whit diminish the value of Gomme's work in its suggestiveness. As the eye runs down the list of the books which he has written, and of his miscellaneous contributions to Folk-Lore and other scientific journals, all the outcomes, not of learned leisure, but of margins of time wrung from strenuous official duties, the comment is, "Well done, good and faithful servant." In the larger margin which was afforded by his retirement from the high position of Clerk of the London County Council, he had looked forward to completing work interest in which grew with advancing years. Dis aliter visum. But, happily for us mortals, they cannot efface what has been accomplished, and for all that Sir Laurence Gomme did in service to the science of folklore we hold him in affectionate and grateful memory.
Edward Clodd.
# Folk-Lore/Volume 27/The Worship of the God Obalufou: Cursing to Obtain a Blessing

The Worship of the God Obalufon: Cursing to Obtain a Blessing.
The eve of the annual celebration of Obalufon (deity) known as Gbolodo came off on the night of Saturday, the 16th instant. Great importance is attached to the worship of this deity, being the only Orisa in Egbaland, upon whose altar human life was formerly sacrificed annually. Its worship is confined to the township of Ikereku, and is regarded by them as of national importance. Thanks to the influence of the British Government, the barbarous custom of offering human life has long since become a thing of the past. The most curious part of the ceremonies is, that before this Orisa, every worshipper must curse instead of blessing himself; for it is their belief that it gives the opposite of what a man asks. Thus a man who wants wealth will ask for poverty, etc., etc.—Nigeria Pioneer, 22nd September 1916.
The above extract has been kindly forwarded by Sir James Frazer, who remarks: "The custom of cursing as a mode of securing a blessing is so comparatively rare that this instance from West Africa deserves a record in Folk-Lore."
# Folk-Lore/Volume 28

FOLK-LORE
A QUARTERLY REVIEW
OF
MYTH, TRADITION, INSTITUTION, & CUSTOM
BEING
The Transactions of the Folk-Lore Society
And Incorporating The Archæological Review and The Folk-Lore Journal
VOL. XXVIII.—1917
Alter et Idem
LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BY
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD., 3 ADAM ST., ADELPHI, W.C.
1917
[LXXVII.]
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.
CONTENTS.
# Folk-Lore/Volume 27/Marriage Customs in Cromarty

Marriage Customs in Cromarty.
All friends of the bride give her presents of bedclothes, it being an honour or mark of superiority to have many pairs of blankets. All those bidden to the "Bedding," as it is called, have to heap their gifts on the bed, and in the end there is quite an erection. Most of it however is removed the night of the wedding.
The bridegroom has to supply the bride's boots and shoes for her trousseau, and all clothes, save underwear.
The bride has to have her feet washed the day before, money put in the water in which this is done, and when the bride sits with her feet in the basin or tub, her girl friends scramble for the coin, with which they buy sweets.
The top portion of the wedding cake is kept for the christening of the first-born child.
Collected neighbourhood of Cromarty, N.B., 1914.
L. E. Ashton-Rigby.
# Flint and Feather (1914)/Part 1/The Vagabonds

THE VAGABONDS
What saw you in your flight to-day, Crows, awinging your homeward way?
Went you far in carrion quest, Crows, that worry the sunless west?
Thieves and villains, you shameless things! Black your record as black your wings.
Tell me, birds of the inky hue, Plunderous rogues—to-day have you
Seen with mischievous, prying eyes Lands where earlier suns arise?
Saw you a lazy beck between Trees that shadow its breast in green,
Teased by obstinate stones that lie Crossing the current tauntingly?
Fields abloom on the farther side With purpling clover lying wide—
Saw you there as you circled by, Vale-environed a cottage lie,
Girt about with emerald bands, Nestling down in its meadow lands?
Saw you this on your thieving raids? Speak—you rascally renegades!
Thieved you also away from me Olden scenes that I long to see?
If, O! crows, you have flown since morn Over the place where I was born,
Forget will I, how black you were Since dawn, in feather and character;
Absolve will I, your vagrant band Ere you enter your slumberland.
# Flint and Feather (1914)/Part 1/The Camper

THE CAMPER
Night 'neath the northern skies, lone, black, and grim: Naught but the starlight lies 'twixt heaven, and him.
Of man no need has he, of God, no prayer; He and his Deity are brothers there.
Above his bivouac the firs fling down Through branches gaunt and black, their needles brown.
Afar some mountain streams, rockbound and fleet, Sing themselves through his dreams in cadence sweet,
The pine trees whispering, the heron's cry, The plover's passing wing, his lullaby.
And blinking overhead the white stars keep Watch o'er his hemlock bed—his sinless sleep.
# Flint and Feather (1914)/Part 1/The Idlers

THE IDLERS
The sun's red pulses beat, Full prodigal of heat, Full lavish of its lustre unrepressed; But we have drifted far From where his kisses are, And in this landward-lying shade we let our paddles rest.
The river, deep and still, The maple-mantled hill, The little yellow beach whereon we lie, The puffs of heated breeze, All sweetly whisper—These Are days that only come in a Canadian July.
So, silently we two Lounge in our still canoe, Nor fate, nor fortune matters to us now: So long as we alone May call this dream our own, The breeze may die, the sail may droop, we care not when or how.
Against the thwart, near by, Inactively you lie,
And all too near my arm your temple bends. Your indolently crude, Abandoned attitude, Is one of ease and art, in which a perfect languor blends.
Your costume, loose and light, Leaves unconcealed your might Of muscle, half suspected, half defined; And falling well aside, Your vesture opens wide, Above your splendid sunburnt throat that pulses unconfined.
With easy unreserve, Across the gunwale's curve, Your arm superb is lying, brown and bare; Your hand just touches mine With import firm and fine, (I kiss the very wind that blows about your tumbled hair).
Ah! Dear, I am unwise In echoing your eyes Whene'er they leave their far-off gaze, and turn To melt and blur my sight; For every other light Is servile to your cloud-grey eyes, wherein cloud shadows burn.
But once the silence breaks, But once your ardour wakes
To words that humanize this lotus-land; So perfect and complete Those burning words and sweet, So perfect is the single kiss your lips lay on my hand.
The paddles lie disused, The fitful breeze abused, Has dropped to slumber, with no after-blow; And hearts will pay the cost, For you and I have lost More than the homeward blowing wind that died an hour ago.
# Flint and Feather (1914)/Part 1/The Song my Paddle Sings

THE SONG MY PADDLE SINGS
West wind, blow from your prairie nest, Blow from the mountains, blow from the west. The sail is idle, the sailor too; O! wind of the west, we wait for you. Blow, blow! I have wooed you so, But never a favour you bestow. You rock your cradle the hills between, But scorn to notice my white lateen.
I stow the sail, unship the mast: I wooed you long but my wooing's past; My paddle will lull you into rest. O! drowsy wind of the drowsy west, Sleep, sleep, By your mountain steep, Or down where the prairie grasses sweep! Now fold in slumber your laggard wings, For soft is the song my paddle sings.
August is laughing across the sky, Laughing while paddle, canoe and I, Drift, drift, Where the hills uplift On either side of the current swift.
The river rolls in its rocky bed; My paddle is plying its way ahead;
Dip, dip, While the waters flip In foam as over their breast we slip.
And oh, the river runs swifter now; The eddies circle about my bow. Swirl, swirl! How the ripples curl In many a dangerous pool awhirl!
And forward far the rapids roar, Fretting their margin for evermore. Dash, dash, With a mighty crash, They seethe, and boil, and bound, and splash.
Be strong, O paddle! be brave, canoe! The reckless waves you must plunge into. Reel, reel. On your trembling keel, But never a fear my craft will feel.
We've raced the rapid, we're far ahead! The river slips through its silent bed. Sway, sway, As the bubbles spray And fall in tinkling tunes away.
And up on the hills against the sky, A fir tree rocking its lullaby, Swings, swings, Its emerald wings, Swelling the song that my paddle sings.
THE SONG MY PADDLE SINGS.
# Flint and Feather (1914)/Part 1/The Happy Hunting Grounds

THE HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS
Into the rose gold westland, its yellow prairies roll, World of the bison's freedom, home of the Indian's soul. Roll out, O seas! in sunlight bathed, Your plains wind-tossed, and grass enswathed.
Farther than vision ranges, farther than eagles fly, Stretches the land of beauty, arches the perfect sky, Hemm'd through the purple mists afar By peaks that gleam like star on star.
Fringing the prairie billows, fretting horizon's line, Darkly green are slumb'ring wildernesses of pine, Sleeping until the zephyrs throng To kiss their silence into song.
Whispers freighted with odour swinging into the air, Russet needles as censers swing to an altar, where The angels' songs are less divine Than duo sung twixt breeze and pine.
Laughing into the forest, dimples a mountain stream, Pure as the airs above it, soft as a summer dream,
O! Lethean spring thou'rt only found Within this ideal hunting ground.
Surely the great Hereafter cannot be more than this, Surely we'll see that country after Time's farewell kiss. Who would his lovely faith condole? Who envies not the Red-skin's soul,
Sailing into the cloud land, sailing into the sun, Into the crimson portals ajar when life is done? O! dear dead race, my spirit too Would fain sail westward unto you.