Eller v. Board of Education of Prince Georges County

How later courts describe this case

• pointing out that federal courts do not intervene in state election contests for the purpose of deciding issues of state law, if no federal constitutional question is involved
• expectation that bill of lading would be issued in accordance with standard form known to all shippers
• company which performed both stevedoring and terminal operating functions benefitted under clause extending carrier’s limitation to independent contractors
• wherein the Court stated that the U.S. Constitution confers upon the states the "power to control the disposition of contests over elections to ... state and local offices" (citation omitted)
• warrantless seizure justified by plain view doctrine