Word: enjoin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court's ruling put an end to a suit begun in 1922 in the lower Federal courts by Samuel W. Lambert, learned physician of Manhattan, who sought to enjoin the Prohibition Unit from enforcing the provision concerning whiskey prescriptions. Justice Brandeis' opinion was upheld by Chief Justice Taft and associate Justices Holmes, Sanford, Van Devanter...
...rights of preferred stockholders under the charter and by-laws of all companies and the statutes of all states. In this connection, it is interesting to note that already a suit has been commenced by, among others, the trustees of the Langhorne estate in Richmond, Va., to enjoin the directors of the Southern Railway from paying further dividends on the common stock of that company until preferred stockholders have been paid all dividends in arrears...
Juan J. Tomadelli, inventor and owner of "bottled sunshine" (TIME, Mar. 10), whom the Attorney General of New York State sought to enjoin from selling capital stock in his scientifically-suspected, self-feeding lamp, was upheld by ex-Supreme Court Justice New-burger, who, as referee, dismissed the proceedings. The opinion held that, although two illuminating experts had declared (without examination) that Tomadelli's lamp violated well-known scientific principles, the burden of proof was on the plaintiff (the Attorney General) to show that the representations of the promoter were consciously false and made with intent to deceive...
Complaints have poured in to Federal authorities that the chicken market has been rigged (or, to use a politer term current in the money market, "stabilized" by the Association. U. S. District Attorney Haywood has consequently filed a petition to enjoin the continuance of present practices of the Association...
...transparent fact: " I give to my nephew, Guy Estell Morley, all my correspondence, diaries and written fragments, to be dealt with as he may think fit, at his own discretion. And, as it is possible that some person may desire to write a memoir of my life, I enjoin upon my executors and each of them to refuse to aid or encourage any such designs and not allow any such person to have access to any of my papers, whether personal or acquired in the course of official duty, either for perusal or otherwise...