Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Wasoff v. American Automobile Insurance

404 U.S. 911

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1971-10-26
Topic
commercial

How later courts describe this case

  • due process requires that a district court’s findings to support a preliminary injunction must be based upon something more than a one-sided presentation of the evidence.
  • "In any other manner” language in injunction is overbroad restriction on protected speech.
  • where the record presented a “strong” case, the trial lasted more than seven weeks and “instances of erroneous comments occupy only brief momerits in the overall proceedings,” the jury had not been improperly influenced
  • dismissing challenge to Michigan election law as without merit

Citator

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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.