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Albert A. Carmichael vs. Southern Coal Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5349

Scope and Contents

Carmichael vs. Southern Coal Company: Albert A. Carmichael, as Attorney General for the State of Alabama, et. al., Appellants vs. The Southern Coal and Coke Company, Appellee and Albert A. Carmichael as Attorney General for the State of Alabama, et. al. Appellants vs. Gulf States Paper Corporation. This case before the U.S. Supreme Court tested the constitutionality of state unemployment insurance laws of the pooled type. The issue was: was the legislature arbitrary and unreasonable in assessing some employers in order to pay benefits to workers who were employed by others.

Dates

  • 1936

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

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Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

Carmichael vs. Southern Coal Company: Albert A. Carmichael, as Attorney General for the State of Alabama, et. al., Appellants vs. The Southern Coal and Coke Company, Appellee and Albert A. Carmichael as Attorney General for the State of Alabama, et. al. Appellants vs. Gulf States Paper Corporation.

This case before the U.S. Supreme Court tested the constitutionality of state unemployment insurance laws of the pooled type. The issue was: was the legislature arbitrary and unreasonable in assessing some employers in order to pay benefits to workers who were employed by others.

Extent

0.5 cubic feet

Abstract

Carmichael vs. Southern Coal Company: Albert A. Carmichael, as Attorney General for the State of Alabama, et. al., Appellants vs. The Southern Coal and Coke Company, Appellee and Albert A. Carmichael as Attorney General for the State of Alabama, et. al. Appellants vs. Gulf States Paper Corporation.

Quantity:

0.5 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Records (documents).

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
Compiled by:
Kheel Staff, November 02, 2005
EAD encoding:
Kheel Staff, March 11, 2019
Title
Albert A. Carmichael vs. Southern Coal Company Records
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Kheel Staff
Date
March 11, 2019
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853