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3,200 | 1994_94-562 | Werner A. Powers argued the cause for respondents.With him on the brief was Charles C. Keeble, Jr. *JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. This case asks whether the discretionary standard set forth in Brillhart v. Excess Ins. Co. of America, 316 U. S. 491 (1942), or the "exceptional circumstances" test d... | OCTOBER TERM, 1994SyllabusWILTON ET AL. v. SEVEN FALLS CO. ET AL.CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUITNo. 94-562. Argued March 27, 1995-Decided June 12, 1995Petitioner underwriters refused to defend or indemnify respondents under several commercial liability insurance policies in litiga... |
3,201 | 1974_73-1531 | MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.This case concerns the application of 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1), permitting defendants in state cases to remove the proceedings to the federal district courts under certain conditions, in the light of Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, § 101(a), 82 Stat. 73, 18 U.S.C... | U.S. Supreme CourtJohnson v. Mississippi, 421 U.S. 213 (1975)Johnson v. MississippiNo. 73-1531Argued February 26, 1975Decided May 12, 1975421 U.S. 213SyllabusPetitioners, six Negroes, who had been picketing and urging boycott of certain business establishments in Vicksburg, Miss., because of their alleged racial discri... |
3,202 | 1995_95-5661 | JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the opinion of the Court.The issue here is whether a Government motion attesting to the defendant's substantial assistance in a criminal investigation and requesting that the district court depart below the minimum of the applicable sentencing range under the Sentencing Guidelines also permits ... | OCTOBER TERM, 1995SyllabusMELENDEZ v. UNITED STATESCERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUITNo.95-5661. Argued February 27, 1996-Decided June 17, 1996After agreeing with others to buy cocaine, petitioner was charged with a conspiracy violative of 21 U. S. C. § 846, which carries a statutory... |
3,203 | 1976_75-746 | MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.The issue in these cases is whether, consistent with the Seventh Amendment, Congress may create a new cause of action in the Government for civil penalties enforceable in an administrative agency where there is no jury trial.IAfter extensive investigation, Congress c... | U.S. Supreme CourtAtlas Roofing Co., Inc. v. Occupational Safety Comm'n, 430 U.S. 442 (1977)Atlas Roofing Co., Inc. v. Occupational Safety and Health CommissionNo. 75-746Argued November 29, 1976Decided March 23, 1977*430 U.S. 442SyllabusUpon finding that the existing state statutory remedies and common law actions for ... |
3,204 | 1973_72-1603 | MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN announced the judgment of the Court and an opinion in which the CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE WHITE, and MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST join.This case presents the issue of the legality, under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, of a warrantless seizure of an automobile and the examination of its exterior at... | U.S. Supreme CourtCardwell v. Lewis, 417 U.S. 583 (1974)Cardwell v. LewisNo. 72-1603Argued March 18, 1974Decided June 17, 1974.417 U.S. 583SyllabusOn July 24, 1967, law enforcement officers interviewed respondent in connection with a murder that had occurred five days before and viewed his automobile, which was thought... |
3,205 | 1981_80-415 | JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion for the Court.In March 1975, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Co. (Rock Island) petitioned the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois for reorganization under § 77 of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898, as added, 47 Stat. 1474, and amended, 11 U.S... | U.S. Supreme CourtRailway Labor Executives' Assn. v. Gibbons, 455 U.S. 457 (1982)Railway Labor Executives' Assn. v. GibbonsNo. 8015Argued December 2, 1981Decided March 2, 1982*455 U.S. 457SyllabusIn 1975, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Co. (Rock Island) petitioned the District Court for reorganization un... |
3,206 | 1976_74-1263 | MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.An Iowa trial jury found the respondent, Robert Williams, guilty of murder. The judgment of conviction was affirmed in the Iowa Supreme Court by a closely divided vote. In a subsequent habeas corpus proceeding, a Federal District Page 430 U. S. 390 Court ruled th... | U.S. Supreme CourtBrewer v. Williams, 430 U.S. 387 (1977)Brewer v. WilliamsNo. 74-1263Argued October 4, 1976Decided March 23, 1977430 U.S. 387SyllabusRespondent was arrested, arraigned, and committed to jail in Davenport, Iowa, for abducting a 10-year-old girl in Des Moines, Iowa. Both his Des Moines lawyer and his la... |
3,207 | 1994_93-981 | quiring proof of such an act at trial, and it noted that the latter cases "stand on weak ground." Id., at 1420. Nevertheless, the court felt bound by precedent and attempted to reconcile the two lines of cases. The Court of Appeals reasoned that, although the Government must prove at trial that the defendant has commit... | OCTOBER TERM, 1994SyllabusUNITED STATES v. SHABANICERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUITNo.93-981. Argued October 3, 1994-Decided November 1,1994Respondent Shabani was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in violation of 21 U. S. C. § 846 after the District Court refused to inst... |
3,208 | 1973_73-190 | MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.The question presented in this case is whether a partner in a small law firm may invoke his personal privilege against self-incrimination to justify his refusal to comply with a subpoena requiring production of the partnership's financial records. Page 417 U. S. 8... | U.S. Supreme CourtBellis v. United States, 417 U.S. 85 (1974)Bellis v. United StatesNo. 73-190Argued February 25, 1974Decided May 28, 1974417 U.S. 85SyllabusFifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination held not available to member of dissolved law partnership who had been subpoenaed by a grand jury to produce t... |
3,209 | 1977_76-1427 | MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion in which MR. JUSTICE POWELL, MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, and MR. JUSTICE STEVENS joined.The question presented by this appeal is whether a Tennessee statute barring "Minister[s] of the Gospel, or priest[s] of any denomination whatever" fro... | U.S. Supreme CourtMcDaniel v. Paty, 435 U.S. 618 (1978)McDaniel v. PatyNo. 76-1427Argued December 5, 1977Decided April 19, 1978435 U.S. 618SyllabusAppellee Paty, a candidate for delegate to a Tennessee constitutional convention, sued in the State Chancery Court for a declaratory judgment that appellant, an opponent who... |
3,210 | 1973_72-1470 | MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court.This case and Commissioner v. "Americans United" Inc., post, p. 416 U. S. 752, involve the application of the Anti-Injunction Page 416 U. S. 727 Act, § 7421(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (the Code), 26 U.S.C. § 7421(a), to the ruling letter program of the... | U.S. Supreme CourtBob Jones Univ. v. Simon, 416 U.S. 725 (1974)Bob Jones University v. SimonNo. 72-1470Argued January 7, 1974Decided May 15, 1974416 U.S. 725SyllabusPetitioner, a private university, was notified by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), pursuant to a newly announced policy of denying tax-exempt status for... |
3,211 | 1998_97-1235 | (b) Del Monte Dunes' § 1983 suit is an action at law for Seventh Amendment purposes. Pp.708-711.(1) That Amendment applies not only to common-law causes of action but also to statutory causes of action analogous to common-law causes of action ordinarily decided in English law courts in the late 18th century, as opposed... | OCTOBER TERM, 1998SyllabusCITY OF MONTEREY v. DEL MONTE DUNES AT MONTEREY, LTD., ET AL.CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUITNo. 97-1235. Argued October 7, 1998-Decided May 24,1999After petitioner city imposed more rigorous demands each of the five times it rejected applications to devel... |
3,212 | 1998_97-7597 | neither Knowles' consent nor probable cause to conduct the search. He relied on Iowa law dealing with such searches.Iowa Code Ann. § 321.485(1)(a) (West 1997) provides that Iowa peace officers having cause to believe that a person has violated any traffic or motor vehicle equipment law may arrest the person and immedia... | OCTOBER TERM, 1998SyllabusKNOWLES v. IOWACERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF IOWANo. 97-7597. Argued November 3, 1998-Decided December 8,1998An Iowa policeman stopped petitioner Knowles for speeding and issued him a citation rather than arresting him. The officer then conducted a full search of the car, without either K... |
3,213 | 1988_87-1815 | MARSHALL, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which BRENNAN and STEVENS, JJ., joined,, post, p. 490 U. S. 465.JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court.In this case, we consider whether Kentucky prison regulations give state inmates, for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment, a liberty interest in receiving ... | U.S. Supreme CourtKy. Dept. of Corrections v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454 (1989)Kentucky Department of Corrections v. ThompsonNo. 87-1815Argued January 18, 1989Decided May 15, 1989490 U.S. 454SyllabusFollowing the District Court's issuance of a consent decree settling a class action brought by Kentucky penal inmates under 4... |
3,214 | 1956_37 | MR. JUSTICE BURTON delivered the opinion of the Court.In this case, a Federal District Court convicted an attorney of criminal contempt on three specifications for disobeying subpoenas duces tecum, and imposed a general sentence of imprisonment for a year and a day. Since the Government has abandoned two of the specif... | U.S. Supreme CourtNilva v. United States, 352 U.S. 385 (1957)Nilva v. United StatesNo. 37Argued November 8, 13, 1956Decided February 25, 1957352 U.S. 385SyllabusIn connection with a trial for conspiracy to violate the Federal Slot Machine Act, the court issued subpoenas duces tecum directing a corporation owned by one ... |
3,215 | 1972_72-694 | MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court.These cases raise a challenge under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the constitutionality of a recently enacted New York law which provides financial assistance, in several ways, to nonpublic elementary and secondary schools in that State. The ca... | U.S. Supreme CourtCommittee for Public Education v. Nyquist, 413 U.S. 756 (1973)Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. NyquistNo. 72-694Argued April 16, 1973Decided June 25, 1973*413 U.S. 756SyllabusAmendments to New York's Education and Tax Laws established three financial aid programs for nonpublic ele... |
3,216 | 1967_149 | MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.Petitioners, Wayne Dyke, Ed McKinney, and John Blackwell, were found guilty of criminal contempt by the Chancery Court of McMinn County, Tennessee. All three were given the maximum sentence authorized by statute, 10 days in jail and a $50 fine. [Footnote 1] The Ten... | U.S. Supreme CourtDyke v. Taylor Implement Mfg. Co., Inc., 391 U.S. 216 (1968)Dyke v. Taylor Implement Manufacturing Co., Inc.No. 149Argued January 18, 1968Decided May 20, 1968391 U.S. 216SyllabusIn connection with a labor dispute, a Tennessee county chancery court issued an injunction which, inter alia, barred inflict... |
3,217 | 1979_78-6621 | MR. JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.We granted certiorari to decide the following question:"May a sentence of death constitutionally be imposed after a jury verdict of guilt of a capital offense when the jury was not permitted to consider a verdict of guilt of a lesser included noncapital offense, an... | U.S. Supreme CourtBeck v. Alabama, 447 U.S. 625 (1980)Beck v. AlabamaNo. 78-6621Argued February 20, 1980Decided June 20, 1980447 U.S. 625SyllabusUnder Alabama law, felony murder is a lesser included offense of the capital crime of robbery-intentional killing. Under the Alabama death penalty statute, the trial judge is... |
3,218 | 1982_81-2245 | JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.In 1913, the United States sued to adjudicate water rights to the Truckee River for the benefit of the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation and the planned Newlands Reclamation Project. Thirty-one years later, in 1944, the United States District Court for the District of... | U.S. Supreme CourtNevada v. United States, 463 U.S. 110 (1983)Nevada v. United StatesNo. 81-2245Argued April 27, 1983Decided June 24, 1983*463 U.S. 110SyllabusIn 1913, the United States sued in Federal District Court, in what is known as the Orr Ditch litigation, to adjudicate water rights to the Truckee River for the ... |
3,219 | 1986_85-2116 | JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.This case requires that we reconsider the holding of Kentucky v. Dennison, 24 How. 66 (1861), that federal courts Page 483 U. S. 221 have no power to order the Governor of a State to fulfill the State's obligation under the Extradition Clause of the Constitution, Art.... | U.S. Supreme CourtPuerto Rico v. Branstad, 483 U.S. 219 (1987)Puerto Rico v. BranstadNo. 85-2116Argued March 30, 1987Decided June 23, 1987482 U.S. 219SyllabusRespondent Ronald Calder, who had been released on bail after being arraigned in a Puerto Rico court on felony charges, was declared a fugitive from justice when ... |
3,220 | 1995_95-244 | Syllabus(c) Applying Burford to this case, the federal interests are pronounced, as Allstate's motion to compel arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act implicates a substantial federal concern for the enforcement of arbitration agreements. With regard to the state interests, the case appears at first blush to pre... | OCTOBER TERM, 1995SyllabusQUACKENBUSH, CALIFORNIA INSURANCE COMMISSIONER v. ALLSTATE INSURANCE CO.CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUITNo. 95-244. Argued February 20, 1996-Decided June 3, 1996Petitioner California Insurance Commissioner, as trustee over the assets of the Mission Insuran... |
3,221 | 1981_80-2070 | CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court.We granted certiorari to decide whether Article VIII(1) of the Friendship, Commerce and Navigation Treaty between Page 457 U. S. 178 the United States and Japan provides a defense to a Title VII employment discrimination suit against an American subsidiary of a Ja... | U.S. Supreme CourtSumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. Avagliano, 457 U.S. 176 (1982)Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. AvaglianoNo. 80-2070Argued April 26, 1982Decided June 15, 1982*457 U.S. 176SyllabusPetitioner Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc., is a New York corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of a Japanese general tradin... |
3,222 | 1957_481 | MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.This case concerns two applications for passports, denied by the Secretary of State. One was by Rockwell Kent, who desired to visit England and attend a meeting of an organization known as the "World Council of Peace" in Helsinki, Finland. The Director of the Pas... | U.S. Supreme CourtKent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116 (1958)Kent v. DullesNo. 481Argued April 10, 1958Decided June 16, 1958357 U.S. 116SyllabusAt a time when an Act of Congress required a passport for foreign travel by citizens if a state of national emergency had been declared by the President, and when the Proclamation nece... |
3,223 | 1971_71-227 | MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.In 1969, the Interstate Commerce Commission promulgated two "car service rules" that would have the Page 406 U. S. 743 general effect of requiring that freight cars, after being unloaded, be returned in the direction of the lines of the road owning the cars. Sev... | U.S. Supreme CourtUnited States v. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp., 406 U.S. 742 (1972)United States v. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp.No. 71-227Argued March 27, 1972Decided June 7, 1972406 U.S. 742Syllabus1. Two "car service rues" promulgated by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), requiring generally that unloaded fre... |
3,224 | 1968_776 | MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.This is before us on appellant's motion to dismiss its appeal under Rule 60. Ordinarily, parties may by consensus agree to dismissal of any appeal pending before this Court. [Footnote 1] However, there is an exception where the dismissal implicates a mandate... | U.S. Supreme CourtUtah Pub. Svc. Comm'n v. El Paso Nat. Gas Co., 395 U.S. 464 (1969)Utah Public Service Commission v. El Paso Natural Gas Co.No. 776Argued April 29, 1969Decided June 16, 1969395 U.S. 464SyllabusIn United States v. El Paso Natural Gas Co., 376 U. S. 651 (1964), this Court ordered that appellee El Paso Na... |
3,225 | 1968_574 | MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.This case involves the application of § 811(c)(1)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 to a so-called "reciprocal trust" situation. [Footnote 1] After Joseph P. Grace's Page 395 U. S. 318 death in 1950, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue determined that the ... | U.S. Supreme CourtUnited States v. Estate of Grace, 395 U.S. 316 (1969)United States v. Estate of GraceNo. 574Argued April 22, 1969Decided June 2, 1969395 U.S. 316SyllabusIn 1931 decedent, Joseph Grace, executed a trust instrument providing for payment of income to his wife, Janet, for her life, with payment to her of ... |
3,226 | 1967_335 | MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.Hanover Shoe, Inc. (hereafter Hanover) is a manufacturer of shoes and a customer of United Shoe Machinery Corporation (hereafter United), a manufacturer and distributor of shoe machinery. In 1954, this Court affirmed the judgment of the District Court for the Distri... | U.S. Supreme CourtHanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe Machinery Corp., 392 U.S. 481 (1968)Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe Machinery Corp.No. 335Argued March 5, 1968Decided June 17, 1968*392 U.S. 481SyllabusFollowing this Court's affirmance of a district court judgment in a civil action against United Shoe Machinery Cor... |
3,227 | 1975_74-712 | MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.The False Claims Act provides that the United States may recover from a person who presents a false claim or causes a false claim to be presented to it a forfeiture of $2,000 plus an amount equal to double the amount of damages that it sustains by reason of the fal... | U.S. Supreme CourtUnited States v. Bornstein, 423 U.S. 303 (1976)United States v. BornsteinNo. 74-712Argued October 8, 1975Decided January 14, 1976423 U.S. 303SyllabusA prime contractor (Model) had a contract with the Government to provide radio kits containing electron tubes meeting certain specifications. A subcontr... |
3,228 | 1972_71-1134 | MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of of the Court.The question presented in this case is whether the seizure of allegedly obscene material, contemporaneous with and as an incident to an arrest for the public exhibition of such material in a commercial theater, may be accomplished without a warrant.On Septe... | U.S. Supreme CourtRoaden v. Kentucky, 413 U.S. 496 (1973)Roaden v. KentuckyNo. 71-1134Argued November 14, 1972Decided June 25, 1973413 U.S. 496SyllabusA county sheriff viewed a sexually explicit film at a local drive-in theater. At the conclusion of the showing, he arrested petitioner, the theater manager, for exhibit... |
3,229 | 1962_529 | MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.This case involves the interpretation and application of the "Wunderlich Act," 68 Stat. 81, 41 U.S.C. §§ 321-322, [Footnote 1] Page 373 U. S. 710 an Act designed to permit judicial review of decisions made by federal departments and agencies under standard "disputes... | U.S. Supreme CourtUnited States v. Carlo Bianchi & Co., Inc., 373 U.S. 709 (1963)United States v. Carlo Bianchi & Co., Inc.No. 529Argued April 29, 1963Decided June 3, 1963373 U.S. 709SyllabusThe so-called "Wunderlich Act" of May 11, 1954, 68 Stat. 81, provides, in substance, that a departmental decision on a question o... |
3,230 | 2002_01-1572 | jury and that blameless or unknowing taxpayers will be unfairly taxed for the wrongdoing of local officials. Neither of these concerns is serious in FCA cases. The presumption against punitive damages thus brings only limited vigor to the County's aid. Working against the County's position, however, is a different pres... | OCTOBER TERM, 2002SyllabusCOOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS v. UNITED STATES EX REL. CHANDLERCERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUITNo. 01-1572. Argued January 14, 2003-Decided March 10,2003Under the False Claims Act (FCA), "[a]ny person" who, inter alia, "knowingly presents, or causes to be presen... |
3,231 | 1983_83-747 | JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.Section 4(a) of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA or Act), 44 Stat. (part 2) 1426, 33 U.S.C. § 904(a), makes general contractors responsible for obtaining workers' compensation coverage for the employees of subcontractors under certain cir... | U.S. Supreme CourtWash. Metro. Area Transit v. Johnson, 467 U.S. 925 (1984)Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. JohnsonNo. 83-747Argued April 24, 1984Decided June 26, 1984467 U.S. 925SyllabusSection 4(a) of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA or Act) provides that "[e]very employ... |
3,232 | 1980_79-1794 | JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.As Detroit police officers were about to execute a warrant to search a house for narcotics, they encountered respondent descending the front steps. They requested his assistance in gaining entry, and detained him while they searched the premises. After finding narcot... | U.S. Supreme CourtMichigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692 (1981)Michigan v. SummersNo. 79-1794Argued February 25, 1981 -- Decided June 22, 1981452 U.S. 692SyllabusWhen police officers executing a warrant to search a house for narcotics encountered respondent descending the front steps, they requested his assistance in gainin... |
3,233 | 1984_83-1878 | JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.This case presents the question of the extent to which a decision of an administrative agency to exercise its "discretion" not to undertake certain enforcement actions is subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. § 501 et seq. (APA).... | U.S. Supreme CourtHeckler v. Chaney, 470 U.S. 821 (1985)Heckler v. ChaneyNo. 83-1878Argued December 3, 1984Decided March 20, 1985470 U.S. 821SyllabusRespondent prison inmates were convicted of capital offenses and sentenced to death by lethal injection of drugs. They petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ... |
3,234 | 1989_88-1076 | Justice BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.The question presented is the constitutionality of a federal "rails-to-trails" statute, under which unused railroad rights-of-way are converted into recreational trails notwithstanding whatever reversionary property interests may exist under state law. Petitioners con... | U.S. Supreme CourtPreseault v. ICC, 494 U.S. 1 (1990)Preseault v. Interstate Commerce CommissionNo. 88-1076Argued Nov. 1, 1989Decided Feb. 21, 1990494 U.S. 1SyllabusBecause preexisting federal law failed to deal adequately with the national problem of shrinking rail trackage, Congress enacted the National Trails System... |
3,235 | 1980_79-6740 | JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court.Stroud v. United States, 251 U. S. 15 (1919), concerned a defendant who was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced Page 451 U. S. 432 to life imprisonment, and who then obtained, upon confession of error by the Solicitor General, a reversal of his conviction a... | U.S. Supreme CourtBullington v. Missouri, 451 U.S. 430 (1981)Bullington v. MissouriNo. 79-6740Argued January 14, 1981Decided May 4, 1981451 U.S. 430SyllabusMissouri law provides only two possible sentences for a defendant convicted of capital murder: (a) death, or (b) life imprisonment without eligibility for probatio... |
3,236 | 1974_73-1734 | MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.Mississippi imposes a 5% sales tax upon the "gross proceeds of the retail sales" of tangible personal property, including gasoline. Miss.Code Ann. § 27-65-17 (Supp. 1974). [Footnote 1] Petitioner operates as a sole proprietorship from West Memphis, Ark. He owns ... | U.S. Supreme CourtGurley v. Rhoden, 421 U.S. 200 (1975)Gurley v. RhodenNo. 73-1734Argued March 18, 1975Decided May 12, 1975421 U.S. 200SyllabusMississippi imposes a 5% sales tax upon the "gross proceeds" of retail sales of tangible personal property, including gasoline, and such gross proceeds are computed without dedu... |
3,237 | 1968_199 | MR. JUSTICE FORTAS delivered the opinion of the Court.This case presents the question whether state prisoners who have commenced habeas corpus proceedings in a federal district court may, in proper circumstances, utilize the instrument of interrogatories for discovery purposes.IPetitioner is the Chief Judge of the Unit... | U.S. Supreme CourtHarris v. Nelson, 394 U.S. 286 (1969)Harris v. NelsonNo.199Argued December 9, 1968Decided March 24, 1969.394 U.S. 286SyllabusA state prisoner filed a habeas corpus petition in the Federal District Court, alleging that the admission of certain evidence at his trial was improper because the evidence had... |
3,238 | 1967_56 | MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.Appellants are an exhibitor and the distributor of a motion picture named "Viva Maria," which, pursuant to a city ordinance, the Motion Picture Classification Board of the appellee City of Dallas classified as "not suitable for young persons." A county court uphe... | U.S. Supreme CourtInterstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas, 390 U.S. 676 (1968)Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of DallasNo. 56Argued January 15-16, 1968Decided April 22, 1968*390 U.S. 676SyllabusAppellee, the City of Dallas, enacted an ordinance establishing a Motion Picture Classification Board to classify films as... |
3,239 | 2001_01-417 | right to appeal from an action that finally disposes of one's rights has a statutory basis. 28 U. S. C. § 1291. pp. 11-14.265 F.3d 195, reversed and remanded.O'CONNOR, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which REHNQUIST, C. J., and STEVENS, SOUTER, GINSBURG, and BREYER, JJ., joined. SCALIA, J., filed a dissentin... | CASES ADJUDGEDIN THESUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATESATOCTOBER TERM, 2001SyllabusDEVLIN v. SCARDELLETTI ET AL.CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUITNo. 01-417. Argued March 26, 2002-Decided June 10,2002Petitioner retiree participates in a defined benefits pension plan (Plan) that was... |
3,240 | 1985_85-390 | JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court.Respondent Preferred Communications, Inc., sued petitioners City of Los Angeles (City) and the Department of Water and Power (DWP) in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The complaint alleged a violation of respondent's rights un... | U.S. Supreme CourtLos Angeles v. Preferred Communications, 476 U.S. 488 (1986)City of Los Angeles v. Preferred Communications, Inc.No. 85-390Argued April 29, 1986Decided June 2, 1986476 U.S. 488SyllabusRespondent sued petitioners, the city of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power (DWP), in Federal District ... |
3,241 | 1977_76-1137 | MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.The question presented in this case is the validity of the provision of Treas.Reg. § 1.562-1(a), 26 CFR § 1.562-1(a) (1977), that a personal holding company's distribution of appreciated property to its shareholders results, under § 561 and 562 of the Internal Reve... | U.S. Supreme CourtFulman v. United States, 434 U.S. 528 (1978)Fulman v. United StatesNo. 76-1137Argued November 29, 1977Decided February 22, 1978434 U.S. 528SyllabusThe provision of Treas.Reg. § 1.562-1(a) that a personal holding company's distribution of appreciated property to its shareholders results, under §§ 561 a... |
3,242 | 1994_94-3 | Ohio held that, despite Bendix, Ohio's tolling law continues to apply to tort claims that accrued before that decision. This holding, in our view, violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause. We therefore reverse the Ohio Supreme Court's judgment.The accident that led to this case, a collision between a car and a truc... | OCTOBER TERM, 1994SyllabusREYNOLDSVILLE CASKET CO. ET AL. v. HYDECERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO No. 94-3. Argued February 27, 1995-Decided May 15, 1995More than three years after respondent Hyde was in an accident in Ohio with a truck owned by a Pennsylvania company, she filed suit in an Ohio county court agai... |
3,243 | 1996_96-110 | Syllabusthe medical profession's integrity and ethics and maintaining physicians' role as their patients' healers; protecting the poor, the elderly, disabled persons, the terminally ill, and persons in other vulnerable groups from indifference, prejudice, and psychological and financial pressure to end their lives; and... | OCTOBER TERM, 1996SyllabusWASHINGTON ET AL. v. GLUCKSBERG ET AL.CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUITNo. 96-110. Argued January 8, 1997-Decided June 26,1997It has always been a crime to assist a suicide in the State of Washington.The State's present law makes "[p]romoting a suicide atte... |
3,244 | 1993_93-518 | CounselDeputy Solicitor General Kneedler argued the cause for the United States as amicus curiae urging affirmance. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Days, Acting Assistant Attorney General Schiffer, James E. Brookshire, and Martin W Matzen. **Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for the America... | OCTOBER TERM, 1993SyllabusDOLAN v. CITY OF TIGARDCERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OREGON No. 93-518. Argued March 23, 1994-Decided June 24,1994The City Planning Commission of respondent city conditioned approval of petitioner Dolan's application to expand her store and pave her parking lot upon her compliance with de... |
3,245 | 1964_399 | MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court.In this case, we review for the first time a conviction under § 504 of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, which makes it a crime for a member of the Communist Party to serve as an officer or (except in clerical or custodial positions) a... | U.S. Supreme CourtUnited States v. Brown, 381 U.S. 437 (1965)United States v. BrownNo. 399Argued March 29, 1965Decided June 7, 1965381 U.S. 437SyllabusRespondent was convicted under §504 of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, which makes it a crime for one who belongs to the Communist Party or wh... |
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