MCCULLEY, ADMINISTRATOR

v.

MITSUI O. S. K. LINES, LTD., ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• Kaiser Steel Corp. v. Mullins, 455 U.S. 72 (U.S. 1982)
  …etition for certiorari raising the question, among others, whether the Court of Appeals had [*77] properly foreclosed its defense based on the illegality of its promise to report and contribute in connection with coal purchased from other producers. 451 U. S. 969 (1981). We now reverse. II There is no statutory code of federal contract law, but our cases leave no doubt that illegal promises will not be enforced in cases controlled by the federal law. In McMullen v. Hoffman, 174 U. S. 639 (1899), two bidder…
• Capoeman v. Amos Reed, 754 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1985)
  …st. Bilbrey, 738 F. 2d at 1466. But see Wallace v. King, 626 F. 2d 1157, 1161 (4th Cir.1980) (immunity allowed where law not authoritatively decided by the Supreme Court, the “appropriate” court of appeals, or the highest state court), cert. denied, 451 U.S. 969, 101 S.Ct. 2045, 68 L.Ed.2d 348 (1981). The relevant decisional law at the time of the incident here favors Capoeman’s position. While early cases treated such prisoner claims as nearly frivolous, e.g., Proffitt v. Ciccone, 506 F. 2d 1020 (8th Cir.…
• Palmer Ramsey, Sr. v. Am. AIR Filter Co., Inc., 772 F.2d 1303 (7th Cir. 1985)
  …ill conclude that a district court improperly refused to enter judgment notwithstanding the verdict. McKinley v. Trattles, 732 F. 2d 1320, 1323-24 (7th Cir.1984); Clemons v. Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd., 596 F. 2d 746, 748 (7th Cir.1979), cert. denied, 451 U.S. 969, 101 S.Ct. 2044, 68 L.Ed.2d 347 (1981). Although plaintiff brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, rather than under Title VII, this court has acknowledged that the same standards that govern Title VII liability also govern section 1981 liability…