United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 473U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 |
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... Civil Procedure 68 , which provides that if a timely pretrial offer of settlement is not accepted and " the judgment finally obtained by the offeree is not more favorable than the offer , the offeree must pay the costs incurred after ...
... Civil Procedure 68 , which provides that if a timely pretrial offer of settlement is not accepted and " the judgment finally obtained by the offeree is not more favorable than the offer , the offeree must pay the costs incurred after ...
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... civil rights suits ; Rule 68 simply encourages settlements . Pp . 7-11 . 720 F. 2d 474 , reversed . BURGER , C. J. , delivered the opinion of the Court , in which WHITE , POWELL , REHNQUIST , STEVENS , and O'CONNOR , JJ . , joined ...
... civil rights suits ; Rule 68 simply encourages settlements . Pp . 7-11 . 720 F. 2d 474 , reversed . BURGER , C. J. , delivered the opinion of the Court , in which WHITE , POWELL , REHNQUIST , STEVENS , and O'CONNOR , JJ . , joined ...
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... Civil Liberties Union et al . by Roger Pascal , Burt Neuborne , E. Richard Larson , and Harvey Grossman ; for the Lawyers ' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law by Fred N. Fish- man , Robert H. Kapp , Norman Redlich , William L ...
... Civil Liberties Union et al . by Roger Pascal , Burt Neuborne , E. Richard Larson , and Harvey Grossman ; for the Lawyers ' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law by Fred N. Fish- man , Robert H. Kapp , Norman Redlich , William L ...
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... Civil Procedure 68 , which shifts to the plaintiff all " costs " incurred subse- quent to an offer of judgment not exceeded by the ultimate recovery at trial . Petitioners argued that attorney's fees are part of the " costs " covered by ...
... Civil Procedure 68 , which shifts to the plaintiff all " costs " incurred subse- quent to an offer of judgment not exceeded by the ultimate recovery at trial . Petitioners argued that attorney's fees are part of the " costs " covered by ...
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... Civil Procedure 68 were fully aware of these exceptions to the American Rule . The Advisory Committee's Note to Rule 54 ( d ) , 28 U. S. C. App . , p . 621 , contains an extensive list of the federal statutes which allowed for costs in ...
... Civil Procedure 68 were fully aware of these exceptions to the American Rule . The Advisory Committee's Note to Rule 54 ( d ) , 28 U. S. C. App . , p . 621 , contains an extensive list of the federal statutes which allowed for costs in ...
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Page 381 - No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.
Page 367 - Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Page 95 - Provided, That this paragraph shall not impair the right of a labor organization to prescribe its own rules with respect to the acquisition or retention of membership therein...
Page 313 - First, the private interest that will be affected by the official action; second, the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such interest through the procedures used, and the probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards; and finally, the Government's interest, including the function involved and the fiscal and administrative burdens that the additional or substitute procedural requirement would entail.
Page 86 - ... to threaten, coerce, or restrain any person engaged in commerce or in an industry affecting commerce, where in either case an object thereof is — • • • • • "(B) forcing or requiring any person to cease using, selling, handling, transporting, or otherwise dealing in the products of any other producer, processor, or manufacturer, or to cease doing business with any other person...
Page 41 - The Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States in its second preliminary draft of proposed amendments to the Rules of Criminal Procedure for the United States District Courts...
Page 101 - ... Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities...
Page 25 - All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property.
Page 95 - This section makes it an unfair labor practice for a union "to restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 157 of this title".
Page 56 - Any claim arising in respect of the assessment or collection of any tax or customs duty, or the detention of any goods or merchandise by any officer of customs or excise or any other law-enforcement officer.