FLORA

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116 (U.S. 1958)
  …istinguishable from Kent’s and dismissed the complaint. The Court of Appeals heard the two cases en banc and affirmed the District Court by a divided vote. 101 U. S. App. D. C. 278, 239, 248 F. 2d 600, 561. The cases are here on writ of certiorari. 355 U. S. 881. The Court first noted the function that the passport performed in American law in the case of Urtetiqui v. D’Arbel, 9 Pet. 692, 699, decided in 1835: “There is no law of the United States, in any manner regulating the issuing of passports, or dir…
• Flora v. United States, 357 U.S. 63 (U.S. 1958)
  …nth Circuit vacated the judgment and remanded with instructions to dismiss, holding that the complaint “failed to state a claim” because petitioner had not paid the entire assessment for the period in question. 246 F. 2d 929.1 We granted certiorari, 355 U. S. 881, to resolve the conflict between that decision and Bushmiaer v. United States, 230 F. 2d 146 (C. A. 8th Cir.).2 The pertinent jurisdictional statute, 28 U. S. C. § 1346 (a)(1), reads as follows: “(a) The district courts shall have original jurisdi…
• Treasure Salvors, Inc. v. The Unidentified Wrecked & Abandoned Sailing Vessel, 569 F.2d 330 (5th Cir. 1978)
  …lvage. He preferred “to consider the sovereign authority as holding such property in trust, to be surrendered to reasonable claims which may be presented.” 19 Fed.Cas. at p. 48. . Ervin v. Massachusetts Co., 95 So. 2d 902 (Fla. 1956), cert. denied, 355 U.S. 881, 78 S.Ct. 147, 2 L.Ed.2d 112 (1957). . “ . . . [I]t is somewhat difficult to assess the place of State ex rel. Ervin v. Massachusetts Co. in American law. In any event, in the federal courts it remains the settled rule that, after the original owne…