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· 12/5/1949

Boyd v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad

Citations

  • 338 U.S. 263
  • 70 S. Ct. 26
  • 94 L. Ed. 2d 55
  • 1949 U.S. LEXIS 1737

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  • \The purpose of Section 55 is to insure that the employee is compensated to the full extent of his loss.\
  • “Congress wanted Section 5 to have the full effect that its comprehensive phraseology implies.”
  • “Taken at its literal and explicit import, the Court's broad constitutional ruling cannot be sustained. So taken, it would require oral argument upon every question of law…This would be regardless of whether the legal question were substantial or insubstantial[.]

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Judges: Frankfurter, Jackson, Pennsylvania, Cir, Douglas, Minton

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