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1955_351 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/351 | MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. The sole question in the case is whether the cause of action alleged comes within the admiralty jurisdiction of the District Court. The District Court held that this was an action on a maritime contract, within the admiralty jurisdiction, 129 F. Supp. 410. The Cou... |
A libel in admiralty alleged that petitioners paid moneys to respondent for transportation to Europe on respondent's vessel, and that respondent breached the contract by abandonment of the voyage. The libel further alleged that respondent wrongfully appropriated the passage money to his own use and committed other f... | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 116 | 2 |
1955_49 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/49 | MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. This suit, removed from a Vermont court to the District Court on grounds of diversity of citizenship, was brought for damages for the discharge of petitioner under an employment contract. At the time the contract was made, petitioner was a resident of New York. Re... |
Petitioner's action against respondent in a Vermont state court, for damages for the discharge of petitioner under an employment contract, was removed to the Federal District Court on grounds of diversity of citizenship. The contract had been made in New York, where both parties resided at the time, and provided tha... | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0.666667 | 3 | 151 | 3 |
1955_110 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/110 | MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. 18 U.S.C. § 401(2) empowers a court of the United States to punish as contempt "Misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions. . . ." |
A lawyer is not the kind of "officer" who can be tried summarily for contempt under 18 U.S.C. § 401(2), which empowers a court of the United States to punish as contempt "[m]isbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions." .
(a) This section derives from the Contempt Act of March 2, 1831, 4 Stat. 4... | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 6 |
1955_76 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/76 | MR. JUSTICE BURTON delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a multiple claims action in which the District Court entered a judgment disposing of but one claim. Pursuant to Rule 54(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended in 1946, that court expressly determined that there was no just reason for delay,... |
In a multiple claims action, the Federal District Court, pursuant to Rule 54(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended in 1946, expressly determined that there was no just reason for delay and expressly directed entry of judgment on one of the claims. The unadjudicated claim was a counterclaim arising i... | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0.777778 | 2 | 177 | 7 |
1955_442 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/442 | Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, announced by MR. JUSTICE BURTON. This case presents the question of the meaning of the term "national security" as used in the Act of August 26, 1950, giving to the heads of certain departments and agencies of the Government summary suspension and unreviewable dismissal power... |
The Act of August 26, 1950, gave to the heads of certain departments and agencies of the Government summary suspension and unreviewable dismissal powers over their civilian employees, when deemed necessary "in the interest of the national security," and its provisions were extended to "all other departments and agenc... | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.666667 | 1 | 320 | 8 |
1955_523 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/523 | MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court. Adolphus Henry Collins was killed in an accident near Ehrenburg, Arizona, on September 30, 1953. The accident resulted from the blowout of a tire on an American Buslines' vehicle which Collins was driving on a regular run from Phoenix to Los Angeles. Collins h... |
The widow and child of a bus driver applied for compensation under the Arizona Workmen's Compensation Act for his accidental death while driving an interstate bus in Arizona. He was a resident of California, and was covered by the California Workmen's Compensation Act. The bus line operated exclusively in interstat... | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 121 | 9 |
1955_373 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/373 | MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. This case involves the federal income tax liability of respondent LoBue for the years 1946 and 1947. From 1941 to 1947, LoBue was manager of the New York Sales Division of the Michigan Chemical Corporation, a producer and distributor of chemical supplies. In 1944, t... |
In recognition of his "contribution and efforts in making the operation of the Company successful," a corporation gave an employee options to purchase stock in the corporation. The options were nontransferable, and were contingent upon continued employment. After some time had elapsed and the value of the shares ha... | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0.777778 | 2 | 240 | 10 |
1955_286 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/286 | MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court. The Southwest Exploration Co., respondent in No. 286, contracted to develop certain oil deposits lying off the coast of California by whipstock drilling from sites located on the property of adjacent upland owners. Southwest agreed to pay to such owners 24 1/2% of t... |
A drilling company contracted to develop certain oil deposits lying off the coast of California by slant drilling from sites located on the property of adjacent upland owners. State law permitted such offshore oil to be extracted only by drilling from upland drill sites or filled land, and no filled lands were avail... | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0.875 | 3 | 198 | 11 |
1955_48 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/48 | MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court. This case is here to review the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirming an order of the Subversive Activities Control Board that petitioner register with the Attorney General as a "Communist action" organization, as required by ... |
An order of the Subversive Activities Control Board that petitioner register with the Attorney General as a "Communist action" organization, as required by the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, was appealed by petitioner to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. While the appeal was pending, pet... | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.666667 | 1 | 403 | 12 |
1955_20 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/20 | MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court. This case concerns the tax treatment to be accorded certain transactions in commodity futures. In the Tax Court, petitioner Corn Products Refining Company contended that its purchases and sales of corn futures in 1940 and 1942 were capital asset transactions under ... |
Petitioner's purchases and sales of corn futures in 1940 and 1942, which, though not "true hedges," were an integral part of its manufacturing business, held not capital asset transactions under § 117(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, and gains and losses therefrom gave rise to ordinary income and ordinary ded... | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 369 | 13 |
1955_380 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/380 | MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. The application of Article VII-A, Title 3, of the New York Tax Law to the mentally incompetent ward of appellant is challenged as being repugnant to the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The statute, in § 165 et seq., provi... |
Under Article VII-A, Title 3, of the New York Tax Law, a town proceeded to foreclose a lien for delinquent taxes on the real estate of a long-time resident. In accordance with the statute, the taxpayer was given no notice except by mail, posting notice at the post office, and publication in two local newspapers. Sh... | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0.888889 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
1955_342 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/342 | Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, announced by MR. JUSTICE BURTON. Czaplicki was injured in 1945 while working as a longshoreman on the "SS Hoegh Silvercloud," a vessel owned by the Norwegian Shipping and Trade Mission and operated by the Kerr Steamship Company. The injury occurred when some steps, constructe... |
Petitioner, a longshoreman, was injured in 1945 while working on a ship when steps built by a contractor collapsed, causing him to fall. Shortly thereafter, he elected to accept compensation under the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, and an award was made by a Deputy Commissioner. Payments there... | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 116 | 16 |
1955_529 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/529 | Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, announced by MR. JUSTICE BURTON. The present Copyright Act provides for a second 28-year copyright after the expiration of the original 28-year term, if application for renewal is made within one year before the expiration of the original term. This right to renew the copyri... |
The Copyright Act grants to the author, "or the widow, widower, or children of the author, if the author be not living," the right of renewal of a copyright for a further 28-year term after the expiration of the original 28-year term.
Held:
1. After the author's death, the widow and children of the author succeed to ... | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 129 | 17 |
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