Volume 321 — United States Reports

Snowden v. Hughes, 321 U.S. 1 (1944), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution does not protect rights pertinent solely to state citizenship, and that the equal protection clause does not protect citizens from unfair applications of fair state laws where purposeful discrimination is absent.

Held: and consistently so, that the carrier which exercised direction and control of the actual motor-vehicle operations and assumed responsibility therefor to shippers and to the general public was the one who was in “operation” during the specified period as a “common carrier by motor vehicle” within the meaning of the grandfather clause. §206 (a).

Held: would give The Transport Company, and through it Kuhn, Loeb and Company, 6,877 shares of Associated’s preferred and 67,167 of Associated’s common, a total of 13 per cent and 9.53 per cent, respectively, of the preferred and common stocks expected to be outstanding at the conclusion of the transactions. 6 Kuhn, Loeb and Company is represented on the boards of directors of several railroads *73 and for years has had…

Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158 (1944), was a Supreme Court of the United States case which held that the government has broad authority to regulate the actions and treatment of children. Parental authority is not absolute and can be permissibly restricted if doing so is in the interests of a child's welfare. While children share many of the rights of adults, they face different potential harms from similar activities.

Held: “In view of the authoritative and explicit requirement of the statute and of its application to these cases, the petitions for rehearing are severally denied.” While it appears that we have a number of times granted certiorari to review decisions in cases originating with the *229 Tax Court after once denying the petitions, Duquesne Steel Foundry Co. v. Burnet, certiorari denied, 282 U. S. 878 , certiorari granted,…

Held: also, that the recovery was taxable as ordinary income, despite taxpayer’s contention that it should be taxed as capital gain under § 117 of the Internal Revenue Code. This contention, the petition says, presents questions of law to be determined by this Court, rather than of fact finally to be determined by the Tax Court.

Held: 263 U. S. at 289-290 , that publication of notice of the proceeding in a newspaper at the state capital was sufficient notice to absent depositors to meet due process requirements.

JI Case Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, 321 U.S. 332 (1944), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the employer and the union are always free to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement as a set of minimum requirements, which individual contracts between an employee and the employer may exceed. Workers at the company's factory had voted to unionize, but J.I. Case Company had refused to negotiate with the new union, and tried to enforce old contracts instead. The court upheld the NLRB's decision that they'd violated the National Labor Relations Act but said that the NLRB had to re-word the order it had issued.

Held: that, as it appears from the record that similar spotting service is being rendered at competing plants, the Commission’s order compels appellees to discriminate against Staley, contrary to §§ 2 and 3 (1). This argument ignores the nature of the present proceeding which is to enforce § 6 (7), not §§ 2 and 3 (1).

Yakus v. United States, 321 U.S. 414 (1944), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court which upheld congressional power to fetter judicial review and to delegate broad and flexible law-making power to an administrative agency in this constitutional challenge to the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942. The wartime anti-inflation measure, intended to expedite price control enforcement, conferred on the federal district courts jurisdiction over violations of Office of Price Administration (OPA) regulations made under the act. But judicial power to consider the constitutionality of such regulations was excepted.

Held: that petitioner was inducted when the oath was read to him and he was told that he was in the Army. At that time he had been placed under guard and was retained against his will. But the argument is that the military has authority to exercise force for the purpose of inducting selectees into the service.

Follett v. Town of McCormick, 321 U.S. 573 (1944), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that people who earn their living by selling or distributing religious materials should not be required to pay the same licensing fees and taxes as those who sell or distribute non-religious materials.

Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. v. Muscoda Local No. 123, 321 U.S. 590 (1944), was an important decision of the United States Supreme Court with regard to the interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This set a precedent for an expansive construction of the language of the FLSA.

Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court with regard to voting rights and, by extension, racial desegregation. It overturned the Texas state law that authorized parties to set their internal rules, including the use of white primaries. The court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the state to delegate its authority over elections to parties in order to allow discrimination to be practiced. This ruling affected all other states where the party used the white primary rule. The Democratic Party had effectively excluded minority voter participation by this means, another device for legal disenfranchisement of blacks across the South beginning in the late 19th century.

Held: petitioner conducted an aggressive campaign against the Union, even to the extent of threatening to close its factory if the Union won the election. Thereupon the Union withdrew its petition for an election, and filed charges with the Board alleging that petitioner had engaged in unfair labor practices.