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The Johnson Amendment To The Judicial Code, Edwin C. Goddard
The Johnson Amendment To The Judicial Code, Edwin C. Goddard
Michigan Law Review
The so-called Johnson bill amending the Judicial Code was passed by Congress and signed by the President on May 14, 1934. The bill was the result of long agitation against the alleged pernicious interference by United States District Courts with rate regulations of the state utility commissions and the state courts. It was charged that the removal of cases from state to federal tribunals was burdening the District Courts and, what was far more serious, was favoring the public utilities and preventing their proper state regulation by submitting controversies to judges having life tenure and who were out of touch …
Administrative Tribunals-Notice And Hearing
Administrative Tribunals-Notice And Hearing
Michigan Law Review
The State Highway Commissioner proceeded against the defendant railroad under a Virginia statute empowering him to order the removal of any railroad grade crossing and the substitution of an elevated road when in his opinion public safety and convenience demanded it. No notice and hearing was given or required, and the only judicial recourse was an action in equity in the event of "arbitrary" action. Held, by a six-three decision, that although it is assumed that a state legislature might order the same action, it by no means follows that an administrative officer may be empowered to act with …
Bankruptcy-Debtor Proceedings-Power Of Court To Enjoin State Court Actions
Bankruptcy-Debtor Proceedings-Power Of Court To Enjoin State Court Actions
Michigan Law Review
A debtor proceeding was initiated in a Florida federal court and an ancillary proceeding was begun in a New York federal court. The latter court enjoined petitioner, who had obtained a tort judgment against the debtor in a New York state court, which judgment had been affirmed by the Appellate Division, from arguing the case as appellee in the New York Court of Appeals and from continuing to prosecute an action commenced by him (petitioner) against the sureties on an appeal bond filed by the debtor pending the appeal to the Appellate Division. Shares of stock had been pledged by …
Stare Decisis -The Retroactive Effect Of An Overruling Decision
Stare Decisis -The Retroactive Effect Of An Overruling Decision
Michigan Law Review
In 1923 the Supreme Court of Michigan ruled, in Kavanaugh v. Rabior, that property lying between the meander line and the waterline of the Great Lakes belonged to the State. The defendant, after this decision and upon the advice of the State Conservation Department, refused to pay rent to the plaintiff, the littoral proprietor. In 1930 the court, overruling the Kavanaugh case, held, in Hilt v. Weber, that such property belonged to the littoral proprietor. On the basis of this decision the plaintiff brought suit for use and occupation. Held, in the principal case, that the overruling …
Equity - Admissibility Of Evidence Arising Pendente Lite
Equity - Admissibility Of Evidence Arising Pendente Lite
Michigan Law Review
In equitable actions "the right to judgment is not limited to the facts as they existed at the commencement of the action, but the relief administered is such as the nature of the case, and the facts as they exist at the close of the litigation, demand." While this quotation may express the general rule regarding the admissibility of evidence arising pendente lite, the difficulties in its application are numerous.
Evidence - Admissibility Of Blood-Group Test
Evidence - Admissibility Of Blood-Group Test
Michigan Law Review
The old axiom, "blood will tell," has been given a new lease on life by the work of biochemists and hereditists in the last thirty years. At the beginning of the twentieth century a scientist, Karl Landsteiner, working on the means to make blood transfusions safe, discovered that the New Testament saying, the Almighty "hath made of one blood all nations of men," is not true. He found that human blood is divided into four groups, characterized by the possession or non-possession of certain substances in the serum and the corpuscles of the blood. If one puts a little blood …
Practice And Procedure - Power Of The Court To Increase Inadequate Verdict
Practice And Procedure - Power Of The Court To Increase Inadequate Verdict
Michigan Law Review
With the development of the remittitur in the case of excessive verdicts, one would naturally expect the development of an analogous device for cases wherein the verdicts are inadequate. When the plaintiff moves for a new trial because of an inadequate verdict, a denial of the motion on the condition that the defendant agree to a certain increase in the verdict is perfectly analogous to the remittitur in form. But this device has not received the same wide acceptance as its counterpart. In cases in which the plaintiff has appealed this device has been condemned, while it has been approved …
Federal Practice -Appeal And Error - Review Of Denial Of Motion For New Trial
Federal Practice -Appeal And Error - Review Of Denial Of Motion For New Trial
Michigan Law Review
The federal appellate courts have, in a great many decisions, refused to review the denial of a motion for a new trial made in a lower federal court. The very recent case of Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. once again presents the problem, and Justice Brandeis, writing the majority opinion, follows the prior holdings. In this very excellent opinion the learned Justice presents the reasons for the result generally reached, and enumerates some of the exceptions in a manner which should tend to clarify much of the doubt which has existed in this field of appellate jurisdiction.