without sufficient cause
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 281 U.S. 52 - Collie v. Fergusson · 1930Most cited · 312 citing opinions
The words 'refuses or neglects to make payment * * * without sufficient cause' connote, either conduct which is in some sense arbitrary or willful, or at least a failure not attributable to impossibility of payment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “without sufficient cause”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “without sufficient cause” — 490 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1930–1935
The words 'refuses or neglects to make payment without sufficient cause' connote, either conduct which is in some sense arbitrary or willful, or at least a failure not attributable to impossibility of payment. The statute thus confers no right to recover double wages where the delay in payment of wages due was not in some sense arbitrary, willful, or unreasonable.