District of Columbia Minimum Wage Cases: Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, October Term, 1920, No. 3438 and No. 3467 : the Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia, a Corporation Appellant, Vs. Jesse C. Adkins, Ethel M. Smith, Joseph A. Berberich, Constituting the Minimum Wage Board of the District of Columbia : Willie A. Lyons, Appellant, Vs. Jesse C. Adkins ... Constituting the Minimum Wage Board of the District of Columbia : Brief for Appellees

Sampul Depan
Chas. P. Young Company, 1920 - 453 halaman
 

Halaman terpilih

Istilah dan frasa umum

Bagian yang populer

Halaman 200 - No vacancy in the Commission shall impair the right of the remaining Commissioners to exercise all the powers of the Commission.
Halaman 199 - If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.
Halaman 277 - No provision of this constitution shall be construed as a limitation upon the authority of the legislature to confer upon the railroad commission additional powers of the same kind or different from those conferred herein which are not inconsistent with the powers conferred upon the railroad commission in this constitution...
Halaman xxxi - It is legitimate only in the last resort, and as a necessity in the determination of real, earnest and vital controversy between individuals. It never was the thought that, by means of a friendly suit, a party beaten in the legislature could transfer to the courts an inquiry as to the constitutionality of the legislative act.
Halaman 216 - ... adopted at the Sixteenth Legislative Session of this state. Section 13. Any person who violates any of the foregoing provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) Dollars nor more than one hundred ($100.00) Dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than three months or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
Halaman lvii - It is more consonant to the true philosophy of our historical legal institutions to say that the spirit of personal liberty and individual right, which they embodied, was preserved and developed by a progressive growth and wise adaptation to new circumstances and situations of the forms and processes found fit to give, from time to time, new expression and greater effect to modern ideas of self-government. This flexibility and capacity for growth and adaptation is the peculiar boast and excellence...
Halaman xxviii - In answering that question we must be cautious about pressing the broad words of the Fourteenth Amendment to a drily logical extreme. Many laws which it would be vain to ask the court to overthrow could be shown, easily enough, to transgress a scholastic interpretation of one or another of the great guarantees in the Bill of Rights. They more or less limit the liberty of the individual or they diminish property to a certain extent.
Halaman 208 - The findings of fact made by the commission acting within its powers shall, in the absence of fraud, be conclusive...
Halaman 192 - ... to compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt, as in the case of disobedience of the...
Halaman vii - One branch of the government [the judiciary] cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule.

Informasi bibliografi