WHITNEY STORES, INC., ET AL.

v.

SUMMERFORD ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (11 total)

• Lynch v. Household Fin. Corp., 405 U.S. 538 (U.S. 1972)
  …Mfg. Co., 176 U. S. 68. The appellees also rely on two recent affirmances, without opinion, of decisions by three-judge district courts dismissing § 1343 (3) suits on the ground that the rights allegedly infringed were proprietary. Hornbeak v. Hamm, 393 U. S. 9, aff’g 283 F. Supp. 549 (MD Ala. 1968); Abernathy v. Carpenter, 373 U. S. 241, aff’g 208 F. Supp. 793 (WD Mo. 1962). All of these cases involved constitutional challenges to the collection of state taxes. Congress has treated judicial interference…
• Carter v. Stanton, 405 U.S. 669 (U.S. 1972)
  …. Contrary to the State’s view, our jurisdiction of this [*671] appeal under 28 U. S. C. § 1253 is satisfactorily established. Sullivan v. Alabama State Bar, 394 U. S. 812, aff’g 295 F. Supp. 1216 (MD Ala. 1969); Whitney Stores, Inc. v. Summerford, 393 U. S. 9, aff’g 280 F. Supp. 406 (SC 1968). Also, the District Court plainly had jurisdiction of this case pursuant to 42 U. S. C. § 1983 and 28 U. S. C. § 1343. Damico v. California, 389 U. S. 416 (1967). Damico, an indistinguishable case, likewise establis…
• Browning-Ferris Indus. of Vt., Inc. v. Kelco Disposal, Inc., 492 U.S. 257 (U.S. 1989)
  …h penalties by the Excessive Fines Clause. See Whitney Stores, Inc. v. Summerford, 280 F. Supp. 406, 411 (SC) (three-judge court) (entertaining Eighth Amendment challenge by corporation to fine for violation of Sunday closing laws), summarily aff’d, 393 U. S. 9 (1968). pH HH Language in Ingraham v. Wright, 430 U. S. 651 (1977), and Ex parte Watkins, 7 Pet. 568 (1833), suggests that the entire Eighth Amendment is confined to criminal prosecutions and punishments. But as the Court correctly acknowledges [*…