THOMPSON

v.

COASTAL OIL CO.

Citator

Cited By

• The State of Fla. ex rel. Virgil D. Hawkins v. Bd. OF Control, 93 So. 2d 354 (Fla. 1957)
  …rnative, to recall and amend the mandate was denied by the United States Supreme Court for the reason that the decision above referred to, 90 S.E. 2d 849, “leaves the case devoid of a properly presented federal question.” Ham Say Naim v. Naim, 1956, 350 U.S. 985, 76 S.Ct. 472, 100 L.Ed. 852. A fortiori, we cannot assume that the Supreme Court intended to deprive the highest court of an independent sovereign state of one of its traditional powers, that is, the right to exercise a sound judicial discretion a…
• Reid v. Covert, 354 U.S. 1 (U.S. 1957)
  …olding that “a civilian is entitled to a civilian trial” the District Court held that Mrs. Covert could not be tried by court-martial and ordered her released from custody. The Government appealed directly to this Court under 28 U. S. C. § 1252. See 350 U. S. 985. In No. 713 Mrs. Dorothy Smith killed her husband, an Army officer, at a post in Japan where she was living with him. She was tried for murder by a court-martial and despite considerable evidence that she was insane was found guilty and sentenced t…
• Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, 515 U.S. 200 (U.S. 1995)
  …pt appeals from the decree on which the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals relied in Loving. See Naim v. Naim, 197 Va. 80, 87 S. E. 2d 749, vacated and remanded, 350 U. S. 891 (1955), reinstated and aff’d, 197 Va. 734, 90 S. E. 2d 849, appeal dism’d, 350 U. S. 985 (1956). Naim expressed the state court’s view of the legislative purpose served by the Virginia law: “to preserve the racial integrity of [Virginia’s] citizens”; to prevent “the corruption of blood,” “a [*273] mongrel breed of citizens,” and “the ob…