BARRETT, DBA BARRETT OUTDOOR COMMUNICATIONS

v.

BURNS, COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION OF CONNECTICUT

Citator

Cited By

• Jerome B. Grubart, Inc. v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., 513 U.S. 527 (U.S. 1995)
  …aritime shipping and commerce”; “the desirability of a uniform national rule to apply to such matters”; and “the need for admiralty ‘expertise’ in the trial and decision of the case”), cert. denied sub nom. Columbus-McKinnon, Inc. v. Gearench, Inc., 493 U. S. 1003 (1989). Although they point out that Sisson disapproved the use of four-factor or seven-factor tests “where all the relevant entities are engaged in similar types of activity,” this rule implicitly left the matter open for cases like this one, whe…
• United States v. Harris, 959 F.2d 246 (D.C. Cir. 1992)
  …246, 250, 72 S.Ct. 240, 243, 96 L.Ed. 288 (1952). Accordingly, we said recently: “absent evidence of a contrary legislative intent, courts should presume mens rea is required.” United States v. Nofziger, 878 F. 2d 442, 452 (D.C.Cir.), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 1003, 110 S.Ct. 564, 107 L.Ed.2d 559 (1989). In addition to this presumption in favor of mens rea, appellants’ argument is supported by another canon of statutory construction, the rule of lenity: “ ‘ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes sh…
• Coughlin v. LEE, 946 F.2d 1152 (5th Cir. 1991)
  …at 147-48, 103 S.Ct. at 1690. . Pickering v. Board of Educ., 391 U.S. 563, 568, 88 S.Ct. 1731, 1734-35, 20 L.Ed.2d 811 (1968). . Connick, 461 U.S. at 152, 103 S.Ct. at 1692-93; Moore v. City of Kilgore, 877 F. 2d 364, 372 (5th Cir.), cert. denied 493 U.S. 1003, 110 S.Ct. 562, 107 L.Ed.2d 557 (1989). . 429 U.S. 274, 97 S.Ct. 568, 50 L.Ed.2d 471 (1977). . Id. at 287, 97 S.Ct. at 576. . Id. . Kirkland v. Northside Indep. School Dist., 890 F. 2d 794, 798 (5th Cir.1989), cert. denied — U.S. -, 110 S.Ct. 26…