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Constitutional Law--The Guaranty Clause--Breach Thereof As Justification For Refusal To Pay Federal Taxes, Jack C. Burdett Dec 1931

Constitutional Law--The Guaranty Clause--Breach Thereof As Justification For Refusal To Pay Federal Taxes, Jack C. Burdett

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Amendments Proposed By The West Virginia Constitutional Commission, Kemble White Dec 1931

The Amendments Proposed By The West Virginia Constitutional Commission, Kemble White

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law--Immunity Of State Agency From Federal Taxation--Confused State Of The Decision, Henry P. Snider Dec 1931

Constitutional Law--Immunity Of State Agency From Federal Taxation--Confused State Of The Decision, Henry P. Snider

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law - Freedom Of The Press - Restraints On Publication, Maurice S. Culp Dec 1931

Constitutional Law - Freedom Of The Press - Restraints On Publication, Maurice S. Culp

Michigan Law Review

A recent Supreme Court decision establishes a new concept of freedom of the press, and adds new meaning to the liberty safeguarded by the Fourteenth Amendment. The defendant, Near, was enjoined from publishing his newspaper because it was alleged that the paper was largely devoted to the publication of malicious, scandalous, and defamatory articles about the grand jury, public officials, and others. The injunction was granted pursuant to a statute which made the publication of a malicious, scandalous, or defamatory newspaper, magazine, or periodical a nuisance subject to abatement by injunction. The Supreme Court of the United States decided that …


The Appointing And Removal Powers Of The President Under The Constitution Of The United States, Guy Despard Goff Nov 1931

The Appointing And Removal Powers Of The President Under The Constitution Of The United States, Guy Despard Goff

James Goold Cutler Lecture

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law--Compelling Witness Duty From Absent Nationals Nov 1931

Constitutional Law--Compelling Witness Duty From Absent Nationals

Michigan Law Review

One Blackmer, a citizen of the United States wanted as a witness in the prosecution of Fall and Sinclair, removed to France. Primarily for the purpose of compelling him to return as a witness, Congress enacted, in 1926, the statute commonly known as the Walsh Act. This act provides that whenever the Attorney General or any assistant or district attorney acting under him desires as a witness in a criminal action a person abroad who is a "citizen of the United States or domiciled therein," a subpoena may be issued addressed to a United States consul to be served by …


"Questions Of Law" In Lake Cargo Coal Rate Regulation, David F. Cavers Jun 1931

"Questions Of Law" In Lake Cargo Coal Rate Regulation, David F. Cavers

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Banks And Banking--Enforcement Of Stockholders' Double Liability, Robert E. Stealey Jun 1931

Banks And Banking--Enforcement Of Stockholders' Double Liability, Robert E. Stealey

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Police Power-Prohibition Of Manufacture Of Mattresses Of Shoddy Jun 1931

Constitutional Law-Police Power-Prohibition Of Manufacture Of Mattresses Of Shoddy

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Taxation Jun 1931

Constitutional Law-Taxation

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Infants-Liability On Tort Arising Out Of Contract Jun 1931

Infants-Liability On Tort Arising Out Of Contract

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff was the assignee of a conditional sales contract for an automobile purchased by defendant, a minor. The contract contained a provision that the car should not be used in connection with any violation of any state or federal law. The defendant was apprehended by federal officers while using the car for the illegal transportation of liquor. The car was seized and later forfeited, and the plaintiff brought a tort action for the conversion of the car. Held, the infancy of the conditional buyer was no defense to an action for conversion by a wilful, illegal use. Vermont Acceptance …


The Revival Of Natural Law Concepts, George Shipman Jun 1931

The Revival Of Natural Law Concepts, George Shipman

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Just Compensation Under The Fifth Amendment- Rights Of Russian Citizen Jun 1931

Constitutional Law-Just Compensation Under The Fifth Amendment- Rights Of Russian Citizen

Michigan Law Review

The petitioner was a corporation organized under the laws of the Russian Czarist government, and in January, 1917, became an assignee for value of contracts for the construction of two vessels. In August, 1917, the United States requisitioned these contracts, and the vessels being constructed thereunder, for use in the War. The requisition was made under an act of Congress of June 15, 1917, 40 Stat. 183, which provided for compensation as follows: "Whenever the United States shall * * * requisition any contract * * * or take over any ship, * * * in accordance with the provisions …


Constitutional Law-Bank Guaranty Funds Jun 1931

Constitutional Law-Bank Guaranty Funds

Michigan Law Review

The plaintiff state bank sued to enjoin collection of special assessments under a state bank guaranty law providing for assessments on every bank to establish a fund to protect depositors in failed banks, on the ground that the statute authorizing the assessments had become void as being confiscatory. At the time suit was instituted, the assessments totaled six-tenths of one per cent of average daily deposits, but after an appeal was taken from the decision of the state court, dismissing the injunction granted by the district court, a new act reduced the assessments to two-tenths of one per cent, limited …


Courts-Power To Direct Verdicts Where Forbidden By State Constitution Jun 1931

Courts-Power To Direct Verdicts Where Forbidden By State Constitution

Michigan Law Review

ln a suit for personal injuries the district court of the United States for the district of Arizona directed a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence. The constitution of Arizona, sec. 5, art. 18 provides: "The defense of contributory negligence or of assumption of risk shall, in all cases whatsoever, be a question of fact and shall, at all times, be left to the jury." Held, that this section is not binding on a federal court sitting in Arizona, and does not prevent such court from directing a verdict when …


Municipal Corporations-Constitutional Law May 1931

Municipal Corporations-Constitutional Law

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Former Jeopardy-As Bar To Civil Suit For Penalty Tax May 1931

Constitutional Law-Former Jeopardy-As Bar To Civil Suit For Penalty Tax

Michigan Law Review

The respondent had been convicted and punished in a criminal prosecution for dealing in intoxicating liquors. In a civil action for the collection of taxes imposed as a penalty for non-payment of taxes due because of those particular sales, held, the prior conviction of the defendant constituted a bar to this civil suit for a penalty as double jeopardy even under sec. 5 of the Willis Campbell Act. United States v. LaFranca, U. S. Sup. Ct. Feb. 24, 1931; Adv. Op. No. 74.


Constitutional Law-Municipal Corporations-Police Power May 1931

Constitutional Law-Municipal Corporations-Police Power

Michigan Law Review

The defendants circulated, on the streets of Milwaukee, hand bills which set forth the political and economic views of their group. An ordinance made it unlawful for any person "to circulate or distribute any circular, hand bills, cards, posters, dodgers, or other printed or advertising matter, * * * in or upon any sidewalk, street, * * * or other public place, park or ground within the City of Milwaukee." The defendants were arrested and convicted of violating this ordinance. There was no charge that the ordinance was enforced in any unreasonable or discriminatory manner, or that its purpose was …


Review: The Revival Of Natural Law Concepts, Fowler Vincent Harper May 1931

Review: The Revival Of Natural Law Concepts, Fowler Vincent Harper

Michigan Law Review

A Book Review of THE REVIVAL OF NATURAL LAW CONCEPTS By Charles Grove Haines.


Recognition Of Validity And Incidents Of Marriages Between Blacks And Whites, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Apr 1931

Recognition Of Validity And Incidents Of Marriages Between Blacks And Whites, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Powell Writings

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law--Legislative Regulation Of Fees Charged By Employment Agencies, Henry P. Snyder Apr 1931

Constitutional Law--Legislative Regulation Of Fees Charged By Employment Agencies, Henry P. Snyder

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law-Validity Of The Eighteenth Amendment Apr 1931

Constitutional Law-Validity Of The Eighteenth Amendment

Michigan Law Review

Defendants were indicted for violation of the National Prohibition Act, and on motion to quash they argued that the Eighteenth Amendment under which this statute was enacted conferred new direct powers upon the United States and, within the intent of Article V of the Constitution, could not be properly ratified except by convention. The lower court, on a theory of political interpretation, agreed; indictment quashed. On appeal to the Supreme Court it was held, that the Eighteenth Amendment was lawfully ratified by a method clearly and unequivocally left to the election of Congress. United States v. Sprague, U. …


Taxation-Excise Measured By Income From Copyrights Apr 1931

Taxation-Excise Measured By Income From Copyrights

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a New York corporation, brought a bill to enjoin the Attorney-General of New York and others from collecting under a New York statute a tax levied "for the privilege of exercising its franchise in this state in a corporate or organized capacity," and measured by "income from any source," which had been interpreted to include income derived from copyrights, on the ground that the statute, as applied, infringed the federal Constitution. Held, three judges dissenting, that the tax was an excise tax levied for the privilege of doing business in a corporate capacity and that a constitutionally permissible …


Trusts--Exercise Of A Power With Consent Of Trustee-Retroactive Federal Inheritance Tax Apr 1931

Trusts--Exercise Of A Power With Consent Of Trustee-Retroactive Federal Inheritance Tax

Michigan Law Review

A trust, established in 1908, reserved a power to the settlor to alter or amend the provisions of the trust, conditioned on the assent of the trustee. 26 U. S. C. A. sec. 1094 (d), Rev. Act (1926) sec. 302 (d), which applied to trusts subject at the date of death to any change through the exercise of a power either by the decedent alone or in conjunction with any person, to alter, amend or revoke, was made retroactive by clause (h) of the same section. Held, since the transfer was complete before the death of the settler, section …


Review: Cases On Constitutional Law, Thomas C. Lavery Apr 1931

Review: Cases On Constitutional Law, Thomas C. Lavery

Michigan Law Review

A Review of: CASES ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW By Dudley O. McGovney.


Constitutional Law-Banks And Banking Mar 1931

Constitutional Law-Banks And Banking

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Intoxicating Liquors-Liability Of Purchaser To Federal Prosecution Mar 1931

Intoxicating Liquors-Liability Of Purchaser To Federal Prosecution

Michigan Law Review

Considering the tremendous amount of public interest evinced in all cases arising under the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act, it seems strange, at first glance, that more attention has not been paid by the courts to the purchaser of intoxicating beverages. Since the passage of the National Prohibition Act the dockets have been crowded with cases dealing with the sale, manufacture, and transportation of intoxicants, but it was not until ten years after the passage of the Act that the United States Supreme Court was asked to consider the legality of the purchase of liquor as such. The question …


Constitutional Law-Due Process-Reasonableness Of Police Regulation Mar 1931

Constitutional Law-Due Process-Reasonableness Of Police Regulation

Michigan Law Review

The New York Agriculture and Markets Law, (Cons. Law, c. 69), sec. 252, 253, required an annual license of all persons or corporations gathering milk from producers for manufacture or resale. This was to be issued only upon execution of a bond for at least $2,000, conditioned upon the compliance with this law and the prompt payment to producers for milk or cream bought by the gatherer. The commission, however, could by formal order relieve the gatherer from having to file this bond if satisfied as to the gather's solvency and probable ability to pay for milk purchased. In case …


Constitutional Law-Due Process-Police Power-Junk Yards Mar 1931

Constitutional Law-Due Process-Police Power-Junk Yards

Michigan Law Review

The City of Ashland, Kentucky, acting under a specific power to license and regulate junk yards granted to it by the legislature under section 3058-2 Ky. Stat. (Carroll, 1922) passed an ordinance requiring applicants for licenses to operate junk yards within the city of Ashland. "to make and execute with the Clerk of the City of Ashland, Kentucky, a permit signed by the applicant providing that the Police Department * * * may inspect and search the said shop or place of business." The appellant complied with all other requirements, but refused to execute the permit: Because the clerk would …


Constitutional Law-Due Process-Revocationof Driver's License Mar 1931

Constitutional Law-Due Process-Revocationof Driver's License

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner's license was suspended under a statute which provided that if a judgment for personal injuries or property damage resulting from the ownership or operation of an automobile remained unpaid fifteen days after it became final, the driver's license should be revoked or suspended until payment and until proof offered of ability to pay future claims. Arrested and jailed for driving without a license, petitioner sought release by writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the statute was unconstitutional. Held, that the operation of the statute was discriminatory and based on an unnatural classification; petitioner discharged. Ex parte …