Word: enjoins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...restraining order by issuing a temporary injunction. Final hearing on a permanent injunction would be held later. Thoroughly vexed at this stubborn obstacle in their path, Government attorneys pondered whether to make one more attempt to win Judge Gibson over; to try to get the Manhattan Court to enjoin him; or to appeal the case to a higher Federal Court...
...arose in the U. S. in 1822 when a man named Swan crashed his balloon on a Mr. Guille's farm in New York State. Crowds rushed in, spoiled Guille's flowers and the court ordered Swan to pay damages. In 1930, Frederick & Raymond Swetland tried to enjoin Curtiss Airports Corp. of Cleveland from infringing on their property rights, claiming that low-flying Curtiss planes disturbed them, by their noise and by dropping leaflets. The court ordered the airmen to cease dropping things. In 1934, on the other hand, Clovis Thrasher sued the city of Atlanta, Ga., charging...