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Like the fisherman in The Arabian Nights, Detroit's Federal Judge Frank A. Picard had unwittingly let the terrifying genie of portal-to-portal pay out of the bottle. By last week, as union claims swelled up to a terrifying $5 billion, Judge Picard set valiantly to work to lure the genie back in-or at least cut him down to a manageable size...
...when the case reached the Supreme Court, the genie suddenly grew to enormous size. The Court held that Judge Picard was wrong, that all makeready and walking time on company property had to be paid for. Suddenly, the genie of portal-to-portal pay hovered, mountain high, not only over small Mt. Clemens Pottery, but over all industry. The oracular Court gave a hint, however, on how the monster might be lured back into the bottle. Under the legal doctrine of de minimis ("the law does not concern itself with trifles"), all small amounts of makeready time were...
WASHINGTON, February 3--A proposal by Rep. Walter (D-Pa.) that the Supreme Court recall the master portal pay case and "lay down a clear-cut yard-stick" for such claims marked the start today of House hearings on the $5,000,000,000 problem...
...Supreme Court decision involving employees of the Mt. Clemens, Mich., Pottery Co., has led to the filing of some $5,000,000,000 in portal suits...
Milton A. Smith, assistant General Counsel of the Chamber, said portal suits "pose a threat of bankruptcy to concerns which are the backbone of the American economic system...