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...plaintiffs in the case are Negro workers who have brought action to enjoin the defendant corporation from discriminating at its housing development, and to prohibit the defendant Federal agencies, the FBA ad VA, from guaranteeing purchase mortgages in the project as long as the discrimination continues...
Judge Meyer pointed out that Government workers, by specific law, must be fired if they resort to the Fifth Amendment. "It would be an anomalous result," he said, "if . . . those not in public service could enjoin or recover damages from" firms which merely adopt the Government's rule to their own business. The Judge concluded that the movie industry and the public would be entitled to draw "unfavorable inferences" from the plaintiffs' refusal to testify. Said he: "It would be unrealistic to say that the . . . employers, who are dependent upon the public for the continuance of their businesses...
...shooting because of the novel's anti-fox hunting message. In 1950, dissatisfied with the finished product, Producer David O. Selznick (who got the western-hemisphere rights to the picture in return for allowing wife Jennifer Jones to appear in it) sued London Films Producer Alexander Korda to enjoin release of the film overseas. A British law court decided against Selznick. Last year Selznick hired Director Rouben Mamoulian to reshoot almost a third of the picture in Hollywood for U.S. release...
Pine: Do you mean that if the President empowered Mr. Sawyer to take you into custody and execute you, you'd have no power to enjoin...
...Cowardly & Illogical." Taft called such a notion "cowardly, pusillanimous and illogical." His own proposition would cross the t's and dot the i's: in the event of peril to the nation, the President should be permitted to enjoin strikers and/or seize plants for a period of 60 days. Hard-pressed Majority Leader Lucas tried to win last-minute friends to the Administration's Thomas bill giving the President power to seize plants (usually a more potent weapon against management than labor). Florida's Spessard Holland wanted an amendment to do just the opposite and permit...