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Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause - State Statute Requiring Interstate Motor Carrier To Secure A Permit, Marvin O. Young S.Ed.
Constitutional Law - Commerce Clause - State Statute Requiring Interstate Motor Carrier To Secure A Permit, Marvin O. Young S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner brought an action in an Arkansas state court to enjoin enforcement of a state statute which required all contract carriers using the highways of the state to secure a permit from the state Public Service Commission. The Arkansas Supreme Court found that five driver-owners who had been arrested while transporting petitioner's product in interstate commerce without such a permit were "contract carriers" within the meaning of the statute. Neither petitioner nor any of the drivers had applied for a state permit. Under the terms of the statute, granting of the permit was contingent on certain factors, such as the …
Labor Law-State Regulation Of Recognition And Organizational Picketing, Richard D. Rohr S.Ed.
Labor Law-State Regulation Of Recognition And Organizational Picketing, Richard D. Rohr S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Just as the fixed circumference of spheres of influence tends to reduce clash and friction in world affairs, so peaceful industrial relations are fostered by definite legal rules of conduct. Recent litigation, both by its amount and variety of result, testifies to a continued uncertainty as to the permissible scope of peaceful, primary picketing. The major problems may be subsumed under the loose category of "stranger picketing," but a distinction of some legal significance has developed within this category between picketing by the non-representative union for recognition by the employer and picketing for organizational purposes, that is, to win the …
Negligence-Federal Employer's Liability Act-Extension Of The Safe Place To Work Doctrine, Charles E. Oldfather S.Ed.
Negligence-Federal Employer's Liability Act-Extension Of The Safe Place To Work Doctrine, Charles E. Oldfather S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a lumber inspector employed by the defendant railroad, was inspecting railroad ties on a dock owned by an independent lumber company. The employees of the lumber company had piled the ties so that the ends were either flush with or protruded over the edge of the dock. In order to inspect the ends, the plaintiff assumed a ''bent-over" position in which his right foot was on the edge of the dock, his left hand on the pile and his left foot suspended in the air. After losing his balance, he placed his left foot on the dock where it …