Word: sues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sergeant gave chase, begged him to "act like a gentleman." "Take off your glasses and draw your gun," cried Marion Zioncheck. In the ensuing scuffle the sergeant suffered a sprained finger, facial bruises. Capitol police joined the fray, helped hustle Representative Zioncheck into the guard room. Swearing he would sue the police department for false arrest, he finally agreed to go to court. With the courtroom jammed, Representative Zioncheck, acting as his own attorney, pleaded guilty to the speeding charge but insisted that he had not been properly notified when or where to appear for trial. Judge Casey withdrew...
...pounded Ethiopia's second position just as hard. Finally the Imperial Guard broke and ran for its collective lives. Haile Selassie with only a fistful of followers streaked off toward Dessye, while the Roman Press burgeoned with reports that the Conquering Lion of Judah was about ready to sue for peace...
...awaited hour had come. The crowd craned their necks to catch every word. The Chief Justice spoke with unusual deliberation, pausing now & then to peer at his audience. The first question, he explained, was whether the property of the minority stockholders was endangered, whether they had a right to sue. He declined to let any technicality stand in the way of their right to sue, declaring: "We should not seek to find means of avoiding ruling on a constitutional question." The second question, he declared, was whether Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals (whence the debated power line leads) was legally...
When Mr. Hughes finished, Justice Brandeis read a concurring opinion in which he and Justices Roberts, Stone & Cardozo agreed with the Chief Justice, except that they did not believe that the preferred stockholders of Alabama Power Co. should even have been allowed to sue. Justice McReynolds, arch-Conservative of the Court, was all alone in a dissenting belief that TVA was unconstitutional...
...Commissioner of Internal Revenue that he had neither passed the tax back to the producer nor on to the consumer. Few processors would even attempt to prove any such thing. They might, however, argue that if AAA was illegal, so were its amendments. On this basis they could sue the Government for a tax return just as the Government has been sued for collecting excess income taxes and excess War-profit taxes. Because the meat-packing business is so large and so concentrated, the four big packers made large recoveries on the AAA decision. Their refunds were reliably estimated...