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Show Frankfurter, Murphy Dissent . j Supreme Court 0!:ehs 'Quickie' Divorces disputM onr the pUc tor holdlnt trials under the antltrtnt act should not b permitted. Such triali, he said, ordinarily run from three to five rears before they Are concluded. Rutledge added: "To Inject Into this overlength-ened overlength-ened procedure what would amount to additional preliminary trial and review upon the convenience con-venience of the forum could not but add approximately another year or longer to the time ein-tial ein-tial for disposing of the eases indeed for reaching the merits of them)." Other corporations named in the government complaint, and their principal places of business, are National City Lines, Inc., Chicago; American City Lines, In&, Chi-cago; Chi-cago; Pacific City Lines, In&, Oakland, Oak-land, CaL; Federal Engineering Corp, San Francisco; Phillips Petroleum Pe-troleum Co, Bartlesvllle, Okla. Kills Ordinance The supreme court struck down by a 5-4 vote a Lock port, N. Y, ordinance which forbids use of sound trucks except on permit from the chief of police. Speaking for the majority, Justice Jus-tice Douglas held the ordinance unconstitutional because It placet too much power in the hands of WASHINGTON, June 7 The supreme court Monday upheld "quickie" divorces provided both man and wife have full chance to argue questions of legal residence in the divorce court' , A 7-2 ruling was given In a case where Massachusetts courts invalidated invali-dated a divorce decree obtained by Margaret E. Sherrer in Florida. : Chief Justice Vinson wrote the majority opinion. He said Margaret's Marga-ret's husband, Edward C Sherrer, bad full opportunity in a Florida state court to argue that the Sher-rers Sher-rers were not residents of Florida. The Florida court overruled the husband's contentions in granting the divorce. Vinson ssid this Florida court action was binding on the Massachusetts Massa-chusetts courts. ; Frankfarter Dissents ' Justice Frankfurter wrote a dissent, dis-sent, in . which Justice Murphy Joined, The court also split 7-2 In settling set-tling another matter of conflict between state divorce practices. A decision by Justice Douglas held that Nevada divorces do not permit per-mit two ex-husbands to stop male-ink male-ink alimony payments previously ordered by New York courts under separation decrees. In the New York cases Frankfurter Frank-furter was Joined by Jackson in dissenting. Of Vinson's opinion regarding re-garding the Florida divorce. Frankfurter Frank-furter said the decision "is calculated, calcu-lated, however unwittingly, to promote pro-mote perjury without otherwise appreciably affecting the existing disharmonies among the 48 states in relation to divorce." . Vinson ssid the majority based their decision on the federal constitution's con-stitution's requirement that each state .must give full fslth and credit to the official acta of sister states. ' Directs Trial In another 7-2 decision the court directed trial in the Los Angeles federal court of government charges thst nine corporations conspired to get control of many local bus companies in various cities." The nine companies had eon-tended eon-tended the trial should be held in Chicago. They Include General Motors, Standard Oil Co. of California, Cali-fornia, Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. and Maek Manufacturing Corp. Justice Rutledge delivered the majority decision. Justice Frankfurter Frank-furter wrote a dissent. In which Justice Burton joined, . The government filed suit under un-der the Sherman antitrust act In the federal court In Los Angeles. The Los Angeles federal court agreed with the firms named that California was not a convenient place for the defendants to present pre-sent their case. The Justice department depart-ment appealed this ruling to the supreme court. Court Sidea With U. S. The court majority sided with the government Rutledge ssid Justices Jackson, Frankfurter, Reed and Burton dissented. Jackson Jack-son said Douglaft' ruling is "neither Judicious nor sound." Overtime pay claims of New York longshoremen were upheld 5-3 by the court The majority denied that the claims amount to "overtime on overtime." It described them rather rath-er as overtime on premium pay tor work at inconvenient hours. The case goes back to the U. S. district court in New York, which must determine the method of computation. ' Justice Reed delivered a 10,500-word 10,500-word opinion explaining the majority's ma-jority's view. Justice Frankfurter wrote a 6500-word dissent in which Justices Jackson and Burton agreed. Justice Douglas took no part The longshoremen's claims were opposed by the justice department It said the government as wartime war-time operator of all ships, faced a huge liability If "overtime on overtime" over-time" back pay claims were upheld. up-held. The pay claims were made by longshoremen working the port of New York under an Industry-wide bargaining agreement effective there. |