Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Clamp-All Corp. v. Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute

Clamp-All Corp. v. Cast Iron Soil Pipe Inst., 488 U.S. 1007 (1989)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1989-01-09
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • concluding the government cannot adjudge one “guilty of a criminal offense without convincing a proper factfinder of his guilt with utmost certain ty.”
  • discussing the parties’ respective burdens in litigating the qualified immunity issue
  • public employee's allegations of corruption were not genuine and as such did not touch upon matter of public concern
  • objection to reasonable doubt instruction in state court sufficient to exhaust constitutional claim premised on same issue
  • The use of identical price lists by competitors in a concentrated industry does not show a price-fixing agreement.
  • state employee did not have constitutional right to a specific outcome following investigation of her complaint of sexual harassment

Citator

UpLaw has not yet analyzed Clamp-All Corp. v. Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.

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C. A. 1st Cir. Certiorari denied.