Prosecution of Claims Against the United States by Former Government Employees: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session on H.R. 7076. July 20, August 10 and 11, 1921 |
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Page 8 - Departments, to act as counsel, attorney or agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States, which was pending in either of said Departments while he was such officer, clerk, or employee, nor in any manner, nor by any means, to aid in the prosecution of any such claim, within two years next after he shall have ceased to be such officer, clerk, or employee.
Page 8 - It shall not be lawful for any person appointed after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, as an officer, clerk, or employee in any of the Departments, to act as counsel, attorney, or agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States which was pending in either of said Departments while he was such officer, clerk, or employee...
Page 27 - ... shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than two years; and shall, moreover, thereafter be incapable of holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the Government of the United States.
Page 28 - It is apparent that the mere fact of classification is not sufficient to relieve a statute from the reach of the equality clause of the fourteenth amendment, and that in all cases it must appear, not only that a classification has been made, but also that it is one based upon some reasonable ground — some difference which bears a just and proper relation to the attempted classification, and is not a mere arbitrary selection.
Page 28 - I hold that the liberty of pursuit — the right to follow any of the ordinary callings of life — is one of the privileges of a citizen of the United States.
Page 28 - By class legislation, we understand such legislation as denies rights to one which are accorded to others, or inflicts upon one individual a more severe penalty than is imposed upon another, in like case, offending.
Page 29 - This power is possessed by all courts which have authority to admit attorneys to practice. But the power can only be exercised where there has been such conduct on the part of the parties complained of as shows them to be unfit to be members of the profession.
Page 29 - Before a judgment disbarring an attorney is rendered he should have notice of the grounds of complaint against him and ample opportunity of explanation and defense. This is a rule of natural justice, and should be equally followed when proceedings are taken to deprive him of his right to practice his profession, as when they are taken to reach his real or personal property.
Page 29 - ... of the United States laid claim to land in the State of New York, devised to it, the Supreme Court held that the devise was void, because a statute of New York forbade land in that State being, devised except to natural persons, and to such corporations as were created under the laws of the State. Mr. Justice Field, delivering the opinion of the Court, said: " The power of the State to regulate the tenure of real property within her limits, and the modes of its acquisition and transfer, and the...
Page 28 - These courts are the courts of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims...