Oregon Minimum Wage Cases. Brief for the Oregon Industrial Welfare Commission, Defendants in Error, before the Supreme Court of the United States. By Felix Frankfurter and Josephine Goldmark. (New York: National Consumers' League. 1917. Pp. vi, 837.)

1917 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 784-785
Author(s):  
Robert E. Cushman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Industrial Welfare

International Tin Council v. Amalgamet Inc.

1988 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 837-840
Author(s):  
Steven R. Ratner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Arbitration Clause ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
York County

Petitioner, International Tin Council (ITC), brought an action to stay an American Arbitration Association arbitration that was initiated by respondent, Amalgamet Inc., and that arose out of petitioner’s refusal to honor three contracts for the purchase of tin from respondent. Petitioner claimed that it was immune from suit in the United States by virtue of its status as an international organization under British law, and, in the alternative, that the arbitration clause in its contract with respondent was unenforceable. The Supreme Court of New York County (per Parness, J.) dismissed the petition, and held that petitioner lacked any basis under U.S. law for immunity from legal process and that petitioner had consented to the arbitration clause providing for arbitration in New York.

Constitutional Law in 1936–37: The Constitutional Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in the October Term, 1936

1938 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Cushman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Political History ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Constitutional Decisions

The 1936 term of the Supreme Court will probably be rated a notable one. This is due both to the Court's own work, and to certain extraneous occurrences which could hardly fail to have some impact upon it. In any attempt to evaluate the work of this term, one should bear in mind the following facts: First, a month after the Court convened President Roosevelt was reëlected by one of the most impressive popular and electoral majorities in our political history. Second, in February the President submitted to Congress his proposal for the reorganization of the Supreme Court, including the enlargement of its membership by the addition, up to fifteen, of a new justice for every one remaining on the Court beyond the age of seventy. This proposal aroused violent opposition, the debates on it continued for many months, and ultimately the plan was defeated largely through the efforts of the President's own party. The discussions on this proposal were going on during much of the time in which the Court was sitting. Third, in every case in which New Deal laws were attacked, they were held valid. These results were accomplished in many instances by five-to-four margins, and in the Minimum Wage Case by a five-to-four reversal of a previous five-to-three decision.

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