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2 | Petitioner, a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, was denied classification as a conscientious objector under 6 (j) of the Universal Military Training and Service Act. He appealed. After the usual investigation, the Department of Justice admitted his sincerity but recommended to the Appeal Board that classification as a con... |
8 | Certiorari dismissed. Reported below: 906 F.2d 624.Raymond J. LaJeunesse, Jr., argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Hugh L. Reilly and Herbert R. Kraft.Barry Richard argued the cause and filed briefs for respondents.* [Footnote *] Anthony T. Caso and Ronald A. Zumbrun filed a brief for the Pacif... |
0 | The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is not violated when a state prosecutor carries out a threat made during plea negotiations to have the accused reindicted on more serious charges on which he is plainly subject to prosecution if he does not plead guilty to the offense with which he was originally charg... |
7 | [Footnote *] No. 778, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. et al. v. United States et al.; No. 779, Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. United States et al.; No. 830, Oscar Gruss & Son v. United States et al.; No. 831, New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. First Mortgage 4% Bondholders Committee et al. v. United States et ... |
7 | Rehearing Denied May 31, 1949. [ People of State of California v. Zook ], 726] Mr. John L. Bland, of Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioner. Mr. D. M. Manning, of Los Angeles, Cal., for respondents. Mr. Justice MURPHY delivered the opinion of the Court. A California statute prohibits the sale or arrangement of any transport... |
1 | At least as applied in this case to a native-born citizen of the United States who did not voluntarily relinquish or abandon his citizenship or become involved in any way with a foreign nation, 401 (g) of the Nationality Act of 1940, as amended, which provides that a citizen "shall lose his nationality" by "deserting t... |
3 | The Illinois Driver Licensing Law authorizes the Secretary of State of Illinois to suspend or revoke a driver's license without preliminary hearing upon a showing by his records or other sufficient evidence that the driver's conduct falls into any of 18 enumerated categories, one of which is that the driver has been re... |
7 | Section 303 of the Clean Water Act requires each State, subject to federal approval, to institute comprehensive standards establishing water quality goals for all intrastate waters, and requires that such standards "consist of the designated uses of the navigable waters involved and the water quality criteria for such ... |
7 | The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) brought this action, claiming that petitioners solicited investments in and operated a fraudulent scheme involving transactions in foreign currency options in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and CFTC regulations. Petitioners allegedly engaged in the transact... |
0 | Respondent was charged with and convicted of felony theft. Based on two prior convictions, he was also charged as a habitual offender. Under Texas' habitual offender statute, a defendant convicted of a felony is subject to a sentence of 2 to 20 years if (1) he has two prior felony convictions, and (2) the conviction fo... |
1 | When the National Government ordered its contractor, respondent Knolls, to reduce its work force, Knolls had its managers score their subordinates on "performance," "flexibility," and "critical skills"; these scores, along with points for years of service, were used to determine who was laid off. Of the 31 employees le... |
0 | Respondent state prisoner, while attempting to escape after receiving treatment at a local dentist's office, shot and killed the resident of a nearby house with a stolen pistol when, at the moment the resident slammed the front door as respondent demanded the key to the resident's car, the pistol fired and a bullet pie... |
7 | Section 3 (a) of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (Act) prohibits any company from acquiring control of a bank without prior approval by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board). Under 3 (c) of the Act, the Board must disapprove a transaction that would, inter alia, generate anticompetitive effe... |
7 | Petitioner, Hana Financial, Inc., and respondent Hana Bank both provide financial services to individuals in the United States. When Hana Financial sued Hana Bank for trademark infringement, Hana Bank invoked in defense the tacking doctrine, under which lower courts have provided that a trademark user may make certain ... |
5 | In a proceeding instituted in 1950, a lawyer was disbarred by a State Supreme Court in 1954 for forging a promissory note in 1935, when he concededly was suffering from a degree of insanity which resulted in his confinement in an insane asylum for several years thereafter. After release from the asylum, he had practice... |
0 | Counsel of RecordFor Petitioner Roper:Stephen D. Hawke Assistant Attorney General Jefferson City, MO For Respondent Simmons:Jennifer Herndon St. Louis, MO At age 17, respondent Simmons planned and committed a capital murder. After he had turned 18, he was sentenced to death. His direct appeal and subsequent petitions f... |
1 | Claiming to be disabled from performing her automobile assembly line job by carpal tunnel syndrome and related impairments, respondent sued petitioner, her former employer, for failing to provide her with a reasonable accommodation as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 42 U. S. C. §12112(b)(... |
7 | Section 102 (2) (C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) requires environmental impact statements (EIS's) to be included in recommendations or reports of federal agencies on "proposals for legislation and other major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment." Conte... |
0 | Petitioner's complaint alleged that respondent agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, acting under color of federal authority, made a warrantless entry of his apartment, searched the apartment, and arrested him on narcotics charges. All of the acts were alleged to have been done without probable cause. Petitioner's... |
8 | In two cases set for argument in October, laws of Kansas and South Carolina providing for racial segregation in public schools were challenged as violative of the Fourteenth Amendment. In another case raising the same question with respect to laws of Virginia, appellants had filed a statement of jurisdiction and a moti... |
9 | By the Federal Tobacco Inspection Act, Congress provided for the establishment of uniform standards of classification and inspection of tobacco for the protection of interstate commerce and authorized the Secretary of Agriculture "to establish standards for tobacco by which its type, grade, size, condition, or other ch... |
7 | Petitioner Sereboffs are beneficiaries under a health insurance plan administered by respondent Mid Atlantic and covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The plan provides for payment of covered medical expenses and has an "Acts of Third Parties" provision. This provision requires a benef... |
7 | Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York. Mr. Philip B. Perlman, Sol. Gen., of Washington, D.C., for appellant. [ United States v. South Buffalo Ry. Co. ], 772] Mr. Bruce Bromley, of New York City, for appellees. Mr. Justice JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court. The... |
0 | After officers stopped a car to check its registration without reason to believe it was being operated unlawfully, one of them recognized petitioner Brendlin, a passenger in the car. Upon verifying that Brendlin was a parole violator, the officers formally arrested him and searched him, the driver, and the car, finding... |
1 | Petitioners, qualified Negro voters of a Texas County, sued to determine the legality of their being excluded, solely because of their race and color, from voting in elections held by an Association consisting of all qualified white voters in the County. The Association held an election in each election year to select ... |
0 | In a Washington State Court, petitioner was tried on a charge of robbery, convicted and sentenced to imprisonment. Over his timely objection, there was admitted in evidence a written confession obtained after he had been held incommunicado for 16 hours and had been told that he could not call his wife until he had sign... |
3 | After several applications by respondent Dumschat, a life inmate in a Connecticut state prison, for commutation of his life sentence had been rejected by the Connecticut Board of Pardons without explanation, he sued the Board in Federal District Court under 42 U.S.C. 1983, seeking a declaratory judgment that the Board'... |
7 | A voluntary plan of reorganization submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission under 11 (e) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, which would enable a registered holding company to comply with 11 (b) of the Act by converting itself into an investment company, was approved by the Commission. The Com... |
7 | Appeal from the Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of New jersey. [ Independent Warehouses v. Scheele ], 71] Mr. Duane E. Minard, of Newark, N.J., for appellants. Messrs. Harry Lane, of Jersey City, N.J., and Ralph W. Chandless, of Hackensack, N.J., for appellees. Mr. Justice RUTLEDGE delivered the opinion of the... |
11 | An individual taxpayer received a salary from a closely held corporation and reported it in full in his income tax return for the year in which it was received. In a subsequent year, it was determined that the salary was excessive and the taxpayer was required as transferee to make payments on tax deficiencies of the c... |
0 | Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of California. Mr. David Reich, of Washington, D.C., for appellant. Mr. David Ginsburg, of Washington, D.C., for appellee. Mr. Justice RUTLEDGE delivered the opinion of the Court. Section 8 of the Immigration Act of 1917 provides:'That any pe... |
2 | California filed a complaint against a nurse charging him with murdering 12 patients by administering massive doses of the heart drug lidocaine. The Magistrate granted the defendant's motion to exclude the public from the preliminary hearing on the complaint under a California statute that requires such proceedings to ... |
0 | Under the facts of this case, a defendant in a state criminal contempt proceeding who vilified the judge during the course of the defendant's trial in the state court and was sentenced by that judge to 11 to 22 years for the contempt, was entitled under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to a public tri... |
8 | Per Curiam. The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.NIKE, INC., et al., PETITIONERS v. MARC KASKYon writ of certiorari to the supreme court of california[June 26, 2003] Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Ginsburg joins, and with whom Justice Souter joins as to Part III,concurring. Beginning in 1996... |
1 | An alien who had been ordered deported was convicted of violating 20 (c) of the Immigration Act of 1917, as amended, by "willfully" (1) failing to depart from the United States, and (2) failing to make timely application for travel or other documents necessary to his departure, within six months from the date of the fi... |
0 | Petitioner's death sentence for murder cannot be carried out where one prospective juror was excluded from the jury for cause for merely expressing scruples against the death penalty, rather than being irrevocably committed to vote against it. Witherspoon v. Illinois, . Certiorari granted; 236 Ga. 804, 225 S. E. 2d 241... |
8 | Certiorari dismissed. Reported below: 750 F.2d 205 and 758 F.2d 46.Michael F. Close argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief was George J. Calcagnini.George Russell Miller argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.* [Footnote *] Solicitor General Fried, Assistant Attorney General Willard, Deputy ... |
7 | The FTC filed a complaint against respondent, the country's second largest shoe manufacturer, under 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, charging unfair trade practices by the use of a "Franchise Stores Program" through which respondent sells its shoes to more than 650 retail stores. In return for special benefits fr... |
0 | Per Curiam. This case turns on the Fourth Amendment rule that a confession "obtained by exploitation of an illegal arrest" may not be used against a criminal defendant. Brown v. Illinois, 422 U. S. 590, 603 (1975). After a 14-year-old girl disappeared in January 1999, the Harris County Sheriff's Department learned she ... |
8 | A Federal District Court issued a temporary restraining order restraining the Governor and other officials of Michigan from continuing with proceedings under state law for the removal of certain municipal officers for alleged misfeasance in office. Without passing on the merits of the complaint or a motion to dismiss i... |
2 | Appeal from the Court of Special Sessions of the City of New York, State of New York. Mr. Arthur N. Seiff, of New York City, for appellant. Mr. Whitman Knapp, of New York City, for appellee. [ Winters v. People of State of New York ], 508] Mr. Justice REED delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellant is a New York Cit... |
6 | A labor dispute arose between petitioner railroad and respondent railroad union over petitioner's proposal to establish new "out-lying work assignments" away from its principal yard. There was nothing in the collective-bargaining agreement that prohibited such assignments. The union filed a notice under 6 of the Railwa... |
7 | The incidence of state and local sales taxes falls upon appellant national bank as purchaser and not upon vendors, and therefore the national bank is exempt from the taxes under former 12 U.S.C. 548 (1964 ed.), which was in effect at the time here pertinent. 49 Cal. App. 3d 778, 123 Cal. Rptr. 160, reversed.PER CURIAM.... |
1 | The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against any employee or potential employee between the ages of 40 and 70 on the basis of age, except "where age is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular busi... |
5 | In 1954 the Committee of Bar Examiners of California refused to certify petitioner to practice law in that State, though he had satisfactorily passed the bar examination, on the grounds that he had failed to prove (1) that he was of good moral character, and (2) that he did not advocate forcible overthrow of the Govern... |
7 | Appellee owns and operates a pipe line from its refinery in Oklahoma to its terminals in other States. It uses the pipe line solely to carry its own refined petroleum products. No other pipe line or refiner has connections with appellee's line, and no other refiner has ever shipped products through it. At each of its t... |
11 | Airline pilot taxpayer is not entitled under 262 of the Internal Revenue Code to an exclusion from "personal" expenses for the costs of commuting by car from his home to his place of employment because by happenstance he must carry incidentals of his occupation with him. Certiorari granted; 472 F.2d 561, affirmed.PER C... |
0 | A sheriff, acting on a tip, made a complaint before a magistrate charging that petitioner and another individual on the date and at the place named "did then and there unlawfully break and enter into [the described] locked ... building," and a warrant was issued. A police radio bulletin named and described the two pers... |
8 | Petitioner mine operator's nonunion work force designated two employees of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) to serve as miners' representatives under 30 U.S.C. 813(f). Claiming that the designations compromised its rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), petitioner refused to post information abo... |
7 | Petitioner, a retailer of burial monuments and bronze grave markers, brought suit for damages and injunctive relief under 4 and 16 of the Clayton Act, alleging that respondents had violated 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act by conspiring to monopolize and monopolizing the manufacture and sale of bronze grave markers. After ex... |
1 | Respondent, who is not an Indian, operates a general store in Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation under a license required by federal statute. He brought this action in an Arizona state court against petitioners, a Navajo Indian and his wife who live on the Reservation, to collect for goods sold to them there on c... |
1 | Petitioners, Negro citizens of Montgomery, Ala., brought this class action in 1958 to desegregate the city's public parks, and in 1959 the District Court ordered the parks desegregated. The Court of Appeals affirmed, and ordered the District Court to retain jurisdiction. Thereafter, however, segregated recreational pro... |
1 | A three-judge District Court's judgment upholding the constitutionality of a Connecticut statute that requires the mother of an illegitimate child receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) assistance to disclose the putative father's name and imposing a criminal sanction for noncompliance, and concluding... |
8 | Petitioner company, an Alabama corporation, entered into a dealership agreement to market copier products of respondent, a nationwide manufacturer with its principal place of business in New Jersey. The agreement contained a clause providing that any dispute arising out of the contract could be brought only in a court ... |
7 | Isolated, personal act of negligence by a fellow longshoreman resulting in injury to petitioner did not make shipowner liable on ground of unseaworthiness of vessel, as injury was not caused by ship's condition, appurtenances, cargo, or crew. There is a "complete divorcement of unseaworthiness liability from concepts o... |
11 | Respondent mines cement rock and manufactures it into Portland cement. Section 611 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 allows respondent, as a miner, to deduct from its taxable income a percentage of its gross income from mining as a recoupment of capital investment in the depleting mineral. Because respondent, as... |
1 | Under New York law, the State may terminate, over parental objection, the rights of parents in their natural child upon a finding that the child is "permanently neglected." The New York Family Court Act ( 622) requires that only a "fair preponderance of the evidence" support that finding. Neglect proceedings were broug... |
2 | Petitioner's 15-second "human cannonball" act, in which he is shot from a cannon into a net some 200 feet away, was, without his consent, videotaped in its entirety at a county fair in Ohio by a reporter for respondent broadcasting company and shown on a television news program later the same day. Petitioner then broug... |
7 | Respondent Carol Sachs, a California resident, purchased a Eurail pass over the Internet from a Massachusetts-based travel agent. While using that pass to board a train in Austria operated by petitioner OBB Personenverkehr AG (OBB), the Austrian state-owned railway, Sachs fell to the tracks and suffered traumatic perso... |
3 | Finding that the imminent departure of respondent taxpayer Samuel Shapiro (hereinafter respondent) for Israel under an extradition order to stand trial there on criminal charges jeopardized the collection of income taxes claimed owed by respondent for 1970 and 1971, petitioner Commissioner of Internal Revenue made a je... |
0 | Having, as a result of a previous check of respondent's operator's permit, probable cause to arrest respondent for driving while his license was revoked, a police officer made a full-custody arrest of respondent for such offense. In accordance with prescribed procedures, the officer made a search of respondent's person... |
0 | Pursuant to a Texas statute a district judge issued a warrant describing petitioner's home and authorizing the search and seizure there of "books, records, pamphlets, cards, receipts, lists, memoranda, pictures, recordings and other written instruments concerning the Communist Party of Texas." Officers conducted a sear... |
8 | After the United States Tax Court sustained the Commissioner of Internal Revenue's determination that there was a deficiency in respondent's federal estate tax, respondent appealed to the Court of Appeals but did not file the appeal bond required by the Internal Revenue Code to stay the assessment and collection of the... |
7 | Petitioner shippers brought class action in Federal District Court against respondent motor carriers and respondent ratemaking bureau, alleging that during the years 1966 through 1981 respondents engaged in a conspiracy, in violation of the Sherman Act, to fix rates for transporting freight between the United States an... |
0 | Respondent Ice twice entered an 11-year-old girl's residence and sexually assaulted her. For each of the incidents, an Oregon jury found Ice guilty of first-degree burglary for entering with the intent to commit sexual abuse; first-degree sexual assault for touching the victim's vagina; and first-degree sexual assault ... |
3 | Per Curiam. Petitioner, William Fiore, was convicted of violating a Pennsylvania statute prohibiting the operation of a hazardous waste facility without a permit. After Fiore's conviction became final, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court interpreted the statute for the first time, and made clear that Fiore's conduct was not... |
7 | The Federal Power Act (FPA) authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to regulate "the sale of electric energy at wholesale in interstate commerce," including both wholesale electricity rates and any rule or practice "affecting" such rates. 16 U. S. C. §§824(b), 824d(a), 824e(a). But it places beyond F... |
2 | Appellants, to protest racial voting discrimination and encourage Negro registration, picketed the Forrest County, Mississippi, voting registration office in the county courthouse each weekday from January 23 to May 18, 1964, walking in a "march route" set off by the sheriff with barricades to facilitate access to the ... |
8 | [Footnote *] Together with No. 75-109, Hunerwadel v. Baird et al., also on appeal from the same court. A 1974 Massachusetts statute governs the type of consent, including parental consent, required before an abortion may be performed on an unmarried woman under the age of 18. Appellees, an abortion counseling organizat... |
8 | This Court granted certiorari to consider petitioner's claim that his organization had been denied federal constitutional rights and that the New York State courts had ruled adversely on this claim in sustaining dismissal of his suit. Upon reargument, it appeared that petitioner's pleadings had failed to lay a sufficie... |
7 | Petitioner, an aerospace engineer employed at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, a facility operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), made a number of public statements to the news media highly critical of the Center. Subsequently, respondent Director of the Center demoted petitione... |
8 | Section 13a (1) of the Interstate Commerce Act does not require a railroad seeking to discontinue its segment of a through passenger train that is operated in conjunction with another railroad to give notice of the proposed discontinuance in States served only by the connecting line. Nos. 386, 387, 396, and 410, 312 F.... |
1 | Larry Collins, an employee in respondent city's sanitation department, died of asphyxia after entering a manhole to unstop a sewer line. Petitioner, his widow, brought this action under 42 U.S.C. 1983, alleging, inter alia, that Collins had a right under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment "to be free fr... |
8 | Petitioner was discharged from his position in the Regional Office of the Veterans' Administration in New Orleans and this action was sustained by the Civil Service Commission in Washington. He brought suit in a federal district court in Louisiana against the Manager of the Regional Office and the Civil Service Commiss... |
8 | Petitioner, who had twice been warned to stop handbilling on an exterior sidewalk of a shopping center against American involvement in Vietnam and threatened with arrest by police if he failed to do so, and whose companion continued handbilling and was charged with violating the Georgia criminal trespass law, brought a... |
2 | Respondent sued petitioners, the city of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power (DWP), in Federal District Court, alleging, inter alia, a violation of its rights under the First Amendment by reason of (1) the city's refusal to grant respondent a cable television franchise on the ground that respondent had fa... |
7 | Alleging that they were defrauded by misrepresentations in a registration statement and prospectus for certain securities, purchasers of such securities brought a class action in Federal District Court against most of the participants in the offering, seeking recovery under 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ... |
7 | Petitioner is a wholesale purchasing cooperative whose membership consists of office supply retailers in the Pacific Northwest States. Non-member retailers can purchase supplies from petitioner at the same price as members, but since petitioner annually distributes its profits to members in the form of a percentage reb... |
9 | In 1980, appellant Hillsborough County adopted ordinances and promulgated implementing regulations governing blood plasma centers within the county. One ordinance requires that blood donors be tested for hepatitis, that they donate at only one center, and that they be given a breath-analysis test for alcohol content be... |
9 | Florida's Unemployment Compensation Law, as applied by the State Industrial Commission's holding that petitioner was disqualified for unemployment compensation solely because she filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board, held invalid as violating the Supremacy Clause of the Constitu... |
2 | While petitioner Milkovich was a high school wrestling coach, his team was involved in an altercation at a match with another high school's team. Both he and School Superintendent Scott testified at an investigatory hearing before the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA), which placed the team on probation. Th... |
1 | The appeal, involving the issue whether a Connecticut statutory requirement that tenants wishing to appeal from an eviction judgment must post a bond offends the Due Process or Equal Protection Clause if applied to foreclose appellate review for indigent tenants, is dismissed, as the record is ambiguous regarding the u... |
0 | Where, prior to any declaration of guilt or innocence, the District Court dismissed an information against petitioner on the ground that it failed to state an offense, the Government's appeal from the dismissal was barred by the Double Jeopardy Clause. Certiorari granted; 548 F.2d 822, vacated and remanded.PER CURIAM.I... |
1 | Certiorari granted; vacated and remanded.Allison W. Brown, Jr., Robert M. Alexander, Jack Greenberg, and James M. Nabrit III for petitioners.John Chas. Harris for respondents.PER CURIAM.The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted and the judgment is vacated. The case is remanded to the Supreme Court of Appeals of ... |
0 | After petitioner was convicted of two capital murders and other crimes, he was sentenced to death. The Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed on direct appeal and later dismissed petitioner's state habeas corpus petition. He then sought federal habeas relief, requesting, among other things, an evidentiary hearing on three ... |
1 | Respondents, Negro and Mexican-American residents of Dallas, Tex., brought this action for injunctive and declaratory relief against petitioners, the Mayor and members of the Dallas City Council, alleging that the City Charter's at-large system of electing council members unconstitutionally diluted the vote of racial m... |
8 | Respondent Driehaus, a former Congressman, filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission alleging that petitioner Susan B. Anthony List (SBA) violated an Ohio law that criminalizes certain false statements made during the course of a political campaign. Specifically, Driehaus alleged that SBA violated the law wh... |
8 | Under 8c of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, the Secretary of Agriculture promulgated an order regulating the marketing of milk in the Boston area. As amended in 1941, the order provided for fixing uniform prices to be paid to all producers and required that, in computing such uniform prices, certain a... |
8 | A Federal District Court sitting in admiralty has no power to order the taking of oral depositions for the purpose of discovery only; and Rule 32 of the Admiralty Rules of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, purporting to authorize the taking of such depositions, is invalid for want of authority i... |
4 | Appellees, state-employed health professionals and private nonprofit corporations providing abortion services, brought suit in the District Court for declaratory and injunctive relief challenging the constitutionality of a Missouri statute regulating the performance of abortions. The statute, inter alia: (1) sets forth... |
1 | Arizona prisoners may raise claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel only in state collateral proceedings, not on direct review. In petitioner Martinez's first state collateral proceeding, his counsel did not raise such a claim. On federal habeas review with new counsel, Martinez argued that he received ineffe... |
0 | Held: Where the Florida Supreme Court's reversal of petitioner's murder and rape convictions at a jury trial was based on the weight of the evidence, a retrial is not barred by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment as made applicable to the States by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Pp. 3... |
7 | Decision of Federal Communications Commission refusing to renew radio station's license because station's general manager appeared on behalf of station of various hearings before Federal Radio Commission and Federal Communications Commission and furnished false testimony, so as to conceal holdings of one stockholder, c... |
8 | 1. In a suit in a Federal District Court against respondent in his official capacity as Paymaster General of the Navy, petitioner obtained a judgment directing respondent to pay her the death gratuity provided by 34 U.S.C. 943 for the widow of a member of the naval service. After respondent had retired and his successo... |
0 | Subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury which was investigating possible violations of Part II of the Interstate Commerce Act, petitioner refused, on grounds of possible self-incrimination, to answer questions which were concededly relevant to the grand jury's inquiry. The grand jury sought the aid of the dis... |
4 | After petitioner Doe filed a black lung benefits claim with the Department of Labor, the agency used his Social Security number to identify his claim on official agency documents, including a multicaptioned hearing notice that was sent to a group of claimants, their employers, and lawyers. Doe and other black lung clai... |
7 | From its Seattle Regional Office the Government Services Administration (GSA) invited bids to supply motor fuel for use by government agencies in Idaho and other States. Utah Oil Refining Company (Utah Oil) made bids from its Salt Lake City offices including two bids for supplying gasoline to the Atomic Energy Commissi... |
7 | Respondent trade association was charged with violating, inter alia, 18 U. S. C. §201(c)(1)(A), which prohibits giving "anything of value" to a present, past, or future public official "for or because of any official act performed or to be performed by such public official." Count One of the indictment asserted that re... |
7 | During a tender-offer campaign, respondent bought more than 10% of the outstanding stock of petitioner's predecessor (Old Kern). Respondent was blocked in its takeover efforts by a defensive merger between Old Kern and Tenneco, in which Old Kern stockholders were to receive new Tenneco stock on a share-for-share basis.... |
0 | After petitioners, Los Angeles police officers, were acquitted on state charges of assault and excessive use of force in the beating of a suspect during an arrest, they were convicted under C. Section(s) 242 of violating the victim's constitutional rights under color of law. Although the applicable United States Senten... |
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