Watts v. Bayou Landing, Ltd.
Watts v. Bayou Landing, Ltd., dba Florida Book Mart
Watts v. Bayou Landing, Ltd., 439 U.S. 818 (1978)
Opinion of the Court
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied.
How later courts describe this case
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(holding discretionary decisions not to depart are not reviewable absent a finding of unconstitutional motive)
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(“[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”)
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(questioning vitality of Basurto in light of later Supreme Court decision)
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(grand jurors were aware that witness had perjured himself, and his testimony was not material to grand jury's consideration)
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(employee who refused to testify in support of union protected under the National Labor Relations Act)
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(discrimination established under § 8(a)(4) of NLRA although employee provided no information at all during agency proceeding)
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(defendants are not entitled to use bill of particulars to discover all overt acts that might be proved at trial)
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(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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