Callahan v. South Carolina

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating in dictum that irregularities must infect the proceedings of the grand jury, deprive defendants of a fundamental right or violate the paramount policy of the United States
• when the trial is “impeccably fair and just” an erroneous failure to recuse is harmless error
• when the trial is \impeccably fair and just\ an erroneous failure to recuse is harmless error
• to obtain a hearing, “the petition must be accompanied by a detailed and specific affidavit”
• “[i]t is not necessary for us ... to*agree with plaintiff’s interpretation [of the ‘sole and exclusive benefit’ of the employees requirement of Section 302(c)(5
• “Thus, the petition [2255] that was employed to support the claim that petitioners were entitled to a hearing was essentially predicated on conjecture and speculation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).