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· 3/29/1937

Wright v. Vinton Branch of Mountain Trust Bank of Roanoke

Citations

  • 300 U.S. 440
  • 57 S. Ct. 556
  • 81 L. Ed. 736
  • 1937 U.S. LEXIS 1179
  • 8 Ohio Op. 301
  • 112 A.L.R. 1455

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the second Frazer-Lemke Act, which was almost identical to the Act invalidated in Radford, was constitutional
  • “the amendment that Senator Hatch and I offer today is carefully crafted to hold corporate officer[s] responsible”
  • “the amendment that Senator Hatch and I offer today is carefully crafted to hold corporate officer[s] responsible”
  • “In law as in life . . . the same words, placed in different contexts, sometimes mean different things.”
  • “In law as in life . . . the same words, placed in different contexts, sometimes mean different things.”
  • affirming constitutionality of new Frazier-Lemke Act

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Judges: Brandeis

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