Volume 299 — United States Reports

Valentine v. United States, 299 U.S. 5 (1936), is known in the study of international criminal law for its contribution to the concept that while it is permissible for the United States to receive an accused without a treaty-based extradition, the United States itself will not extradite without authority found in statute or treaty.

Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co., 299 U.S. 65 (1936), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that an inquiry into indispensability would be unnecessary where the complaint did not state a cause of action.

Held: any rule of court to the contrary notwithstanding.” How a suit shall be begun, whether by writ or by informal notice, is a question of the practice of the state or of its forms and modes of proceeding. Amy v. Watertown, No. 1, 130 U. S. 301 , 304.

Held: Although governmental agencies are named defendants, the suit is in fact one against the United States; § 5, Act of July 3, 1930, 46 Stat. 1017 , 38 U. S. C., § lid, permits allowance of interest against the United States, but costs should not have been allowed. 3 32 Stat. 564 . 24 U. S. C., § 139. 4 21 Stat. 350 .

KVOS v. Associated Press, 299 U.S. 269 (1936), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held an association of newspapers cannot sue collectively to raise their projected damages above the minimum damages required for federal jurisdiction when only individual newspapers are parties to unfair competition.

United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp., 299 U.S. 304 (1936), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning foreign affairs, in which the Supreme Court held that the President has primacy with respect to, and that federal government has broad authority over, foreign affairs.

De Jonge v. Oregon, 299 U.S. 353 (1937), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause applies the First Amendment right of freedom of assembly to the individual U.S. states. The Court found that Dirk De Jonge had the right to speak at a peaceful public meeting held by the Communist Party, even though the party generally advocated an industrial or political change in revolution. However, in the 1950s with the fear of communism on the rise, the Court ruled in Dennis v. United States (1951) that Eugene Dennis, who was the leader of the Communist Party, violated the Smith Act by advocating the forcible overthrow of the United States government.

Held: treated and governed as an adjunct of the canal. 37 Stat. 564 , § 7; 48 U. S. C. § 1307 . Later legislation authorizes the President to make rules and regulations in matters of health, etc., and imposes penalties for their violation. 48 U. S. C. § 1310 . The President is also given broad powers of police within the Zone. 48 U. S. C. §§ 1312 , 1313, 1314. We need not particularize further.

Held: and the majority of the Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, that their scope was restricted to claims provable as a result of judicial decision and did not extend to claims made provable by legislation. The language used does not so limit them. The most that can be said is that there was serious question whether such claims could be proved under the law as it stood when the agreements were executed.