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...abused the power to restrain unions, recent Federal legislation has treated U. S. District judges like problem children. In most labor disputes. Federal injunctions are forbidden by the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The Wagner Act routes , appeals from NLRB decisions direct to U. S. Circuit Courts, forbids lower courts to enjoin the Board, in general assumes that the less District judges have to say about labor cases the better...
...Court today set the seal of approval on New York Officials' censorship of the Czechoslovakian film, "Ecstasy." The Court dismissed the appeal of Eureka Productions, Inc., from a Southern New York Federal District Court decision refusing to enjoin authorities from interfering with exhibition of the film, which shows a beautiful woman swimming without a swimming suit...
Justice Reed did not of course take part in a unanimous and significant decision that was promptly handed down. Written by Justice Brandeis it held that Federal District Courts were without power to enjoin the National Labor Relations Board. The case involved Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. and Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Said Justice Brandeis: "Since the procedure before the Board is appropriate and the judicial review . . . is adequate, Congress had power to vest exclusive jurisdiction in the Board and the Circuit Court of Appeals...
Last week's test case arose out of an unenforced order issued by the California Railroad Commission in 1933 directing the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to reduce its gas rates by $1,744,681 a year. The company got a three-judge Federal court to enjoin enforcement of the order on the ground that the commission had not properly considered the cost of reproduction in setting the rates. When the injunction was appealed to the Supreme Court last term it was upheld by a 4-to-4 decision, Justice Sutherland not voting. But after Hugo Black succeeded Willis...
Further skittish developments include sequences in which Morgan, hell-bent on revenge, tries to enjoin Wendy from appearing in Curson's dress show; a ballroom scene where Wendy wins the prize with a Curson creation, having effectively removed her nearest rival by unraveling her dress; a grand finale in which Curson, using the sets from his wife's bankrupt stage show, puts on a musical dress revue which snatches his own business from disaster's verge...