Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interested Judge. When G. M. got Circuit Judge Edward D. Black of Flint to issue an injunction last fortnight ordering Flint sit-downers to evacuate the two local Fisher Body plants, they hooted down the sheriff who tried to read it to them. Last week General Martin scored by asserting that Judge Black owned 3,665 shares of G. M. stock worth $219,900, petitioning the Michigan Legislature to impeach him for violation of a State law forbidding a judge to sit in any case "in which he is a party or in which he is interested." Judge Black admitted...
...Collier's and American Magazine, and including TIME. First suit to get a court decision was against Crowell, asking $75,000. A U. S. District Court threw this suit out on the ground that the advertisement was "not libelous." But Justice Learned Hand of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals decreed...
...Circuit Judge William Richardson Hunter, 79, of Kankakee, Ill. has been a -member of the Bar for 55 years, a judge for only three. During the three he has built up a State-wide reputation for unusual decisions. Last year, for example, he recommended the re-establishment of the whipping post for wife-beaters and gun-toters. Last week he made a stir with one more resounding decision: that a person on roller skates is a "vehicle." Up before peppery Judge Hunter came the case of 12-year-old James Maas, crippled by the car of one J. O. Workman...
...glad to find an obscure test case which might entitle them to millions of dollars worth of free news. First Federal District Court in Washington to examine the case figured out that KVOS was not "unfairly competing" with A. P., refused to grant the injunction. When a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this decision, the National Association of Broadcasters decided it had had enough and withdrew. Carrying on by himself, sturdy Rogan Jones retained Lawyer William H. Pemberton of 'Olympia, carried the case to the U. S. Supreme Court when the A. P. asked for temporary...
...annual stockholders' meeting in 1934, however, Harry Sinclair showed his ace. He announced that a deal was on with Henry L. Doherty to buy Richfield jointly. Same day, in California, Cities Service as one of Richfield's principal bondholders started an appeal in U. S. Circuit Court against the Richfield-Standard deal on the ground that the amount offered was grossly inadequate under California...