Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Doherty v. District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Board

406 U.S. 932

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1972-05-15
Topic
employee-benefits-and-executive-compensation

How later courts describe this case

  • stating that “[i]t is also permissible for a jury, as here, to render a partial verdict; a court may accept a jury’s verdict as to one count and declare a mistrial as to another upon which no agreement has been reached”
  • trial court returned the jury to jury room to write out a verdict on one count of the indictment to which they had agreed
  • manipulation is “the creation of an artificial price by planned action, whether by one man or a group of men”
  • Courts should defer to union’s interpretation of the constitution unless it is not fair and reasonable.
  • task of defining manipulation or attempted manipulation “has fallen to case-by-case judicial development”

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Ct. App. D. C. Motion to dispense with printing petition granted. Cer-tiorari denied.