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STANDARD DREDGING CO. v. MURPHY

No. 722.

319 U.S. 306 (1943)

STANDARD DREDGING CORPORATION v. MURPHY, ACTING INDUSTRIAL COMMISSIONER, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 24, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Cletus Keating, with whom Messrs. H. Maurice Fridlund and Charles S. Cunningham were on the brief, for appellant in No. 722; and Mr. Robert B. Lisle, with whom Messrs. Arthur E. Goddard and Jules Haberman were on the brief, for appellant in No. 723.

Mr. Orrin G. Judd, Solicitor General of New York, with whom Messrs. Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney General, William Gerard Ryan, and Francis R. Curran, Assistant Attorneys General, were on the brief, for appellees.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed by Mr. Matthew S. Gibson on behalf of the Gulf Oil Corporation, urging reversal; and by Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Samuel O. Clark, Jr., and Messrs. Sewall Key, Robert L. Stern, and Jack B. Tate on behalf of the United States, urging affirmance.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

The issue in these cases is whether the New York Unemployment Insurance tax may be collected from employers of certain employees engaged in maritime employment on the wages of those employees. The New York Act levies a payroll tax on all employers of four or more persons, with exceptions not here material, and the sum thus collected is paid into a general fund for the benefit of all unemployed persons covered....

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