Texas Petroleum Co. v. Compania Pelineon De Navegacion, S. A.

How later courts describe this case

• holding that the prevention of a chilling effect on the First Amendment has little application where actual malice, the New York Times v. Sullivan standard, has been shown
• noting that “[c]onciliation rather than formal court proceedings remains the preferred method of settling [discrimination] disputes”
• upholding the exercise of personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state magazine publisher without mention of the first amendment
• affirming without discussion the district court's calculation of back pay award which had deducted unemployment insurance
• affirming judgment for section 1983 plaintiff based upon beatings by police officer.
• "... a non-tenured teacher has no 'expectancy' of continued employment, whatever may be the policies of the institution, where there exists a statutory tenure system."
• damages suffered when barge negligently severed power line to factory measured by value of lost production less saved expenses
• nontenured teacher has no expectancy of continued employment where there exists a statutory tenure system