Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Falcon Insurance Co. v. Eli Lilly & Co.
93 L. Ed. 2d 990
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1987-01-20
- Topic
- general
weighing competing interests in determining validity of time, place and manner restrictions on speech | weighing competing interests in determining validity of time, place and manner restrictions on speech | “Indiana ... has a strong additional interest [in the insurance coverage dispute] because it is [the insured’s] principal place of business and place of incorporation.” | a corporation is “doing business" under § 1391(c) whenever the Constitution would permit a state to require a foreign corporation to comply with a licensing scheme | policy ambiguous if reasonable persons may honestly differ as to meaning of policy language | “[T]he Supremacy Clause, standing alone, secures federal rights only in the sense that it establishes federal-state priorities; it does not create individual rights, nor does it secure such rights within the meaning of 42 U.S.C.S. § 1983.”
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied.
Justice Scalia took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.