Volume 337 — United States Reports

Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a "breach of peace" ordinance of the City of Chicago that banned speech that "stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about a condition of unrest, or creates a disturbance" was unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.

Held: “It is settled that the general legislation of Congress in respect to public lands does not extend to tide lands. There is nothing in the act authorizing the Valentine scrip, or in the circumstances which gave occasion for its passage, to make an exception to the general rule.” P. 284.

Held: to require that , the harm suffered from the employer’s negligence must be confined to that inflicted by “external, violent and accidental” mearis or be an “accidental injury,” as respondent’s narrow view of the statute’s coverage • seems to. contemplate.

Held: with regard to an order denying trial by jury, that by analogy to practice at common law the order was one granting"an injunction within the meaning of § 129. The coalescing of law and equity procedure was completed, in 1938, with the adoption of the Rules of Civil Procedure.

Held: however, that WJR’s claim of objectionable interference with its broadcast signal presented a question of law and, by a closely divided vote, in the broad language quoted *272 ■;above, 6 that, concerning the merits of that question, the Fifth Amendment assured to WJR the right of oral argument before the Commission.

Standard Oil Co. v. United States, 337 U.S. 293 (1949), more commonly referred to as the Standard Stations case to distinguish it from a 1911 case with the same caption, Standard Oil Co. v. United States, is a 1947 decision of the United States Supreme Court in which requirements contracts for gasoline stations (Standard Stations) were held to violate section 3 of the Clayton Act.

United States v. Cors, 337 U.S. 325 (1949), was a United States Supreme Court case interpreting the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 and the Takings Clause of the 5th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Commissioner v. Wodehouse, 337 U.S. 369 (1949), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that lump sums paid in advance by publications to non-resident aliens are taxable income under the Revenue Act and are indistinguishable from "royalties" paid over time within the meaning of that Act. The Wodehouse involved in the case was the British author P. G. Wodehouse, at that time resident in the United States.

United States v. Interstate Commerce Commission, 337 U.S. 426 (1949), is a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States addressing several issues, including the judicial standard of one party's inability to sue itself, the ability of the United States government specifically to sue federally affiliated departments, and the ability of courts to determine legislative intent. While this decision did not have many broad implications, it did offer a more "common-sense" understanding of determining what constitutes a justiciable controversy.

Held: used, administered, liquidated, sold, or otherwise dealt with in the interest of and for the benefit of the United States, and such designated, agency or person may perform any and all acts incident to the accomplishment or furtherance of these purposes; See Clark v. Uebersee Finanz-Korp., 332 U. S. 480 .. 8 Compare Great Northern R. Co. v. Sutherland, 273 U. S. 182 , where the Custodian vested in himself by order…

Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & Warehouse Co., 337 U.S. 530 (1949), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that federal courts sitting in diversity should begin the running of the statute of limitations for a claim according to state law instead of according to the federal rules of civil procedure. The court reasoned that a claim could not be given longer life in federal court than it would have had in a state court while being consistent with the holding in Erie Railroad v. Tompkins.

Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court in the wake of the decision in Guaranty Trust Co. v. York that signified a high deference to state law in choice of law issues for federal courts sitting in diversity.

Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander, 337 U.S. 562 (1949), was a United States Supreme Court case in which two out-of-state corporations objected to ad valorem taxes imposed upon accounts receivable derived from goods manufactured in Ohio, though these accounts were not used in conducting business in Ohio. The court ruled that the tax violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

National Mutual Insurance Company v. Tidewater Transfer Company, 337 U.S. 582 (1949), was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of 28 U.S.C. §1332(e). §1332(e) treats citizens of United States territories as citizens of a state for the purpose of establishing diversity jurisdiction.

Held: however, that all of the company’s employees were exempt under .§ 13 (a) (6) as persons “employed in agriculture.” This second hold *758 ing was reversed, as to the field employees, by the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 2 one judge dissenting, and, in No. 128, we granted the company’s petition for certiorari on the exemption issue. The Court oí Appeals did not pass on the bookkeeper’s status.

Held: as a matter of law, that before the Clarification Act a seaman under the Jones Act could recover for a tort against a service agreement general agent, as an employer. The court did not perceive how the Clarification Act changed this liability. 169 F.. 2d 4 ,8.

Held: McAllister, supra, to be insufficient to establish liability on the part of the general agent. Nos. 860 and 430 affirmed. Mr. Justice Black,.