Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Watts v. Bayou Landing, Ltd.
58 L. Ed. 2d 109
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1978-10-02
- Topic
- general
holding discretionary decisions not to depart are not reviewable absent a finding of unconstitutional motive | “[cjoercing employees to give untrue testimony just as surely undermines the integrity of Board proceedings as does coercing employees to give no testimony at ah” | questioning vitality of Basurto in light of later Supreme Court decision | grand jurors were aware that witness had perjured himself, and his testimony was not material to grand jury's consideration | grand jurors were aware that witness had perjured himself, and his testimony was not material to grand jury’s consideration | employee who refused to testify in support of union protected under the National Labor Relations Act | discrimination established under § 8(a)(4) of NLRA although employee provided no information at all during agency proceeding | defendants are not entitled to use bill of particulars to discover all overt acts that might be proved at trial | no error in admitting testimony of co-defendant where remaining defendants failed to demonstrate some “actual prejudice resulting from [the co-defendant’s] supposed knowledge of defense strategy, or that [he] communicated such knowledge to the Government”
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.