BELL

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Bell v. United States, 349 U.S. 81 (U.S. 1955)
  …th decisions of other lower federal courts, but a contrary holding by the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in Robinson v. United States, 143 F. 2d 276, raised a square conflict for settlement by this Court. This led us to bring the case here. 348 U. S. 895. The punishment appropriate for the diverse federal offenses is a matter for the discretion of Congress, subject only to constitutional limitations, more particularly the Eighth Amendment. Congress could no doubt make the simultaneous transportatio…
• Lewyt Corp. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 349 U.S. 237 (U.S. 1955)
  …s 1945 excess profits tax liability. The Commissioner disallowed the deduction and the Tax Court sustained the Commissioner. 18 T. C. 1245. The Court of Appeals affirmed. 215 F. 2d 518. The case is here on a petition for certiorari which we granted (348 U. S. 895) to resolve the conflict with the Olympic Radip case. Our views, as expressed in the latter case, coincide with those of the Court of Appeals. Accordingly, we affirm that part of the judgment. There is present in this case a point not involved in t…