DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

v.

LITTLE

Citator

Cited By

• Dist. of Columbia v. Little, 339 U.S. 1 (U.S. 1950)
  …S. App. D. C. 242, 178 F. 2d 13. The case raises important questions concerning legal provisions for protecting the health of the people by special and periodic inspection [*3] and elimination of potential sources of disease. We granted certiorari, 338 U. S. 866. In this Court the constitutional arguments have extended far beyond the comparatively narrow issues involved in the particular case. At one extreme the District argues that the Fourth Amendment has no application whatever to inspections and invest…
• Wilko v. Swan, 201 F.2d 439 (2d Cir. 1953)
  …asonably made in settlement of an existing claim, seems persuasive. See Callen v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 332 U.S. 625, 68 S.Ct. 296, 92 L.Ed. 242; Krenger v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 2 Cir., 174 F. 2d 556, certiorari denied Pennsylvania R. Co. v. Krenger, 338 U.S. 866, 70 S.Ct. 140, 94 L.Ed. 531; Boyd v. Grand Trunk Western R. Co., 338 U.S. 263, 70 S.Ct. 26, 94 L.Ed. 55. Because I believe important rights under this notable first of a series of famous Acts for the benefit of the investing public should not be ca…
• Cent. Contracting Co. v. Md. Cas. Co., 367 F.2d 341 (3d Cir. 1966)
  …83 Mass. 19, 66 N.E. 425, 60 [*345] L.R.A. 812 (1903), had come to this view, but they were generally rejected until Chief Judge Learned Hand’s concurring opinion in Krenger v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 174 F. 2d 556, 560-561 (2 Cir. 1949), cert. denied, 338 U.S. 866, 70 S.Ct. 140, 94 L. Ed. 531 (1949). This opinion gave the impetus to the view that there should be no “absolute taboo against'such contracts” and that the test of their validity should be their reasonableness. The early cornmon law rule had been…