Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Doherty v. District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Board

Doherty v. D.C. Unemployment Comp. Bd., 406 U.S. 932 (1972)

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.