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Contracts - Interpretation - "Permanent Employment'', Michigan Law Review Dec 1936

Contracts - Interpretation - "Permanent Employment'', Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff, a consulting engineer, had developed a clientele affording him a weekly income of $200, and was considering Purdue University's attractive offer of an associate professorship. Knowing these facts, defendant corporation proposed by telephone that if plaintiff would reject the Purdue offer and agree to purchase the home of defendant's power superintendent, it would give plaintiff permanent employment at a salary of $600 per month. Relying thereon, plaintiff immediately accepted, rejecting the Purdue offer, contracting to purchase the home, and performing his duties under the employment contract for about twenty-two months, after which defendant discharged him without cause. In affirming …


Labor Law - Injunctions - Peaceful Picketing In The Absence Of A Strike, Milton Rabinowitz Dec 1936

Labor Law - Injunctions - Peaceful Picketing In The Absence Of A Strike, Milton Rabinowitz

Michigan Law Review

Defendant union picketed in an orderly manner to secure the cooperation of plaintiff's employees in the unionization of his open shop establishment. Plaintiff had apparently been unopposed to such unionization but, when his employees failed to respond to defendant's solicitations, had declined to encourage it in any way. Held, defendants, their agents, etc., enjoined from picketing plaintiff's place of business. Safeway Store, Inc. v. Retail Clerks' Union, 184 Wash. 322, 51 P. (2d) 372 (1935).


The Fiction Of Peaceful Picketing, Frank E. Cooper Nov 1936

The Fiction Of Peaceful Picketing, Frank E. Cooper

Michigan Law Review

Efforts of labor organizations during the past decade to secure the enactment of legislation guaranteeing strikers the privilege of peaceably picketing their employers' places of business, appear to have gained for union members no more than a Pyrrhic victory. Although at least nineteen states now have statutes intended to prohibit judicial interference with peaceful picketing, a review of recent cases in this ever timely field indicates that in general such laws have been construed to limit the privileges of pickets to activities so pusillanimous as to be of little aid to the strikers and of little annoyance to employers. In …


Constitutional Law - Minimum Wage Decision - Future Of Legislation By States Jun 1936

Constitutional Law - Minimum Wage Decision - Future Of Legislation By States

Michigan Law Review

The shadow of a thirteen-year old decision which many had hoped was laid forever again fell upon the field of minimum wage legislation as the Supreme Court invalidated the New York minimum wage law for women. With this holding, which came as a surprise to many, the issue of the constitutionality of minimum wage legislation was again thrust into the limelight, and with the two great political parties wrestling with the problem of party programs, the decision may have political repercussions, of a force as yet incalculable. Before considering the future of minimum wage legislation, let us take a brief …


Constitutional Law-Police Power -Validity Of Compulsory Unemployment Insurance Act Jun 1936

Constitutional Law-Police Power -Validity Of Compulsory Unemployment Insurance Act

Michigan Law Review

Complainants asked for a declaratory judgment that the New York Unemployment Insurance Act is unconstitutional. They contended that the law, providing for the payment of limited unemployment benefits out of a fund raised by a uniform payroll tax imposed on all employers, takes property without due process of law. Held, that the law is valid, violating neither the state nor the Federal Constitution. W. H. H. Chamberlain, Inc. v. Andrews, 271 N. Y. 1, 2 N. E. (2d) 22 (1936).