Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Williams v. United States

459 U.S. 835

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1982-10-04
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • denying petitioner’s claim that a 30 day comment period was unreasonable, notwithstanding petitioner’s complaint that the rule was a novel proposition
  • declining to apply per se rule to World, Boxing Council suspension practices
  • "[T]he plain error doctrine, especially in civil cases, should be applied only where the ‘error [is] so serious and flagrant that it goes to the very integrity of the trial.’ ”
  • agency need not republish for notice and comment rules that follow logically from, or that reasonably develop, the rule as originally proposed
  • Rule 51 requires party to object before jury retires to preserve jury instruction challenge
  • group boycott claim not subjected to per se analysis

Citator

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C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.