Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Wasoff v. American Automobile Insurance

Wasoff v. Am. Auto. Ins., 404 U.S. 911 (1971)

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.