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United States Supreme Court FOGARTY v. UNITED STATES(1950) No. 1669 Argued: October 10, 1950Decided: November 6, 1950 </s> In the circumstances of this case, held that the corporation of which petitioner is trustee in bankruptcy and which had contracts with the Navy Department for the production of war materials, did ... | 6 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court PURKETT v. ELEM(1995) No. 94-802 Argued: Decided: May 15, 1995 </s> PER CURIAM. </s> Respondent was convicted of second-degree robbery in a Missouri court. During jury selection, he objected to the prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges to strike two black men from the jury panel, an obje... | 1 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court ALOHA AIRLINES, INC. v. DIRECTOR OF TAXATION(1983) No. 82-585 Argued: October 4, 1983Decided: November 1, 1983 </s> A Hawaii statute imposes a tax on the annual gross income of airlines operating within the State, and declares that such tax is a means of taxing an airline's personal propert... | 9 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court SPINELLI v. UNITED STATES(1969) No. 8 Argued: Decided: January 27, 1969 </s> Petitioner was convicted of illegal interstate gambling activities despite his claim that the Commissioner's warrant authorizing the FBI search that uncovered evidence used at his trial violated the Fourth Amendmen... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court BOYNTON v. VIRGINIA(1960) No. 7 Argued: October 12, 1960Decided: December 5, 1960 </s> For refusing to leave the section reserved for white people in a restaurant in a bus terminal, petitioner, a Negro interstate bus passenger, was convicted in Virginia courts of violating a state statute m... | 1 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court MORISSETTE v. UNITED STATES(1952) No. 12 Argued: Decided: January 7, 1952 </s> 1. A criminal intent is an essential element of an offense under 18 U.S.C. 641, which provides that "whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts" property of the United States is punishable by fine... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. v. DURHAM COUNTY(1986) No. 85-1021 Argued: October 6, 1986Decided: December 9, 1986 </s> Appellant, a New Jersey corporation with its principal office and only manufacturing facilities located in North Carolina, blends tobacco imported from foreign countries with ... | 6 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court McADAMS v. McSURELY(1978) No. 76-1621 Argued: March 1, 1978Decided: June 26, 1978 </s> Certiorari dismissed. Reported below: 180 U.S. App. D.C. 101, 553 F.2d 1277. </s> Deputy Solicitor General Easterbrook argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Acting Solicitor Genera... | 8 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court MATSUSHITA ELEC. INDUSTRIAL CO. v. ZENITH RADIO(1986) No. 83-2004 Argued: November 12, 1985Decided: March 26, 1986 </s> Petitioners are 21 Japanese corporations or Japanese-controlled American corporations that manufacture and/or sell "consumer electronic products" (CEPs) (primarily televis... | 6 | 0 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court VAN LARE v. HURLEY(1975) No. 74-453 Argued: March 26, 1975Decided: May 19, 1975 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 74-5054, Taylor et al. v. Lavine, Commissioner, Department of Social Services of New York, et al., on certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. </... | 1 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court DeBACKER v. BRAINARD(1969) No. 15 Argued: Decided: November 12, 1969 </s> 1. Appellant juvenile's challenge in habeas corpus proceeding on ground that he was unconstitutionally deprived of his right to trial by jury is inappropriate for resolution by this Court since the hearing before a Ne... | 0 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. BANKS(2005) No. 03-892 Argued: November 1, 2004Decided: January 24, 2005 </s> Respondent Banks settled his federal employment discrimination suit against a California state agency and respondent Banaitis settled his Oregon state case against his former emp... | 10 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court BROWN v. GSA(1976) No. 74-768 Argued: Decided: June 1, 1976 </s> Section 717 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as added by 11 of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, proscribes federal employment discrimination and establishes an administrative and judicial enforcement system. The s... | 1 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court MICHAEL M. v. SONOMA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT(1981) No. 79-1344 Argued: November 4, 1980Decided: March 23, 1981 </s> Petitioner, then a 17 1/2-year-old male, was charged with violating California's "statutory rape" law, which defines unlawful sexual intercourse as "an act of sexual intercourse... | 1 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court STAFFORD v. BRIGGS(1980) No. 77-1546 Argued: April 24, 1979Decided: February 20, 1980 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 78-303, Colby, Director, Central Intelligence Agency, et al. v. Driver et al., on certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. </s> In No. 77-1... | 8 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court FORT STEWART SCHOOLS v. FLRA(1990) No. 89-65 Argued: January 10, 1990Decided: May 29, 1990 </s> During collective bargaining, petitioner schools, which are owned and operated by the Army at a military facility, declined to negotiate with respondent Fort Stewart Association of Educators (Uni... | 6 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court ALBRECHT v. U.S.(1947) No. 148-to-151 Argued: January 8, 1947Decided: February 3, 1947 </s> [329 U.S. 599, 600] Messrs. Richmond C. Coburn and Samuel M. Watson, both of St. Louis, Mo., for petitioners. Mr. Roger P. Marquis, of Washington, D.C., for respondent. </s> Mr. Justice BLACK deliv... | 1 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court COMMUNITY TELEVISION OF SO. CAL. v. GOTTFRIED(1983) No. 81-298 Argued: October 12, 1982Decided: February 22, 1983 </s> Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 provides that no otherwise qualified handicapped individual shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from particip... | 6 | 0 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court MINCEY v. ARIZONA(1978) No. 77-5353 Argued: February 21, 1978Decided: June 21, 1978 </s> During a narcotics raid on petitioner's apartment by an undercover police officer and several plainclothes policemen, the undercover officer was shot and killed, and petitioner was wounded, as were two ... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. A & P TRUCKING CO.(1958) No. 32 Argued: October 20, 1958Decided: December 8, 1958 </s> A partnership may be prosecuted as an entity under 222 (a) of the Motor Carrier Act for "knowingly and willfully" violating certification requirements and motor carrier regulations of the... | 6 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court IDAHO METAL WORKS v. WIRTZ(1966) No. 30 Argued: December 8, 1965Decided: February 24, 1966 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 31, Wirtz, Secretary of Labor v. Steepleton General Tire Co., Inc., et al., on certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. </s> In No. 30... | 6 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court ROCHELLE BROSSEAU v. KENNETH J. HAUGEN(2004) No. 03-1261 Argued: Decided: December 13, 2004 </s> Per Curiam. </s> Officer Rochelle Brosseau, a member of the Puyallup, Washington, Police Department, shot Kenneth Haugen in the back as he attempted to flee from law enforcement authorities in hi... | 6 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court WISSNER v. WISSNER(1950) No. 119 Argued: Decided: February 6, 1950 </s> An insured under a National Service Life Insurance policy, who was domiciled in California, as was his wife, designated his mother as principal beneficiary and his father as contingent beneficiary. Premiums on the polic... | 9 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court U.S. v. UNION CENTRAL LIFE INS. CO.(1961) No. 52 Argued: November 7, 1961Decided: December 18, 1961 </s> Because a Michigan statute then required that a notice of a federal tax lien must contain a description of the land upon which the lien was claimed and it was the practice of county offi... | 10 | 1 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court SPRINT COMMUNICATIONS CO., L. P., ET AL. v. APCC SERVICES, INC., ET AL.(2008) No. 07-552 Argued: April 21, 2008Decided: June 23, 2008 </s> A payphone customer making a long-distance call with an access code or 1-800 number issued by a long-distance carrier pays the carrier (which completes t... | 8 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court YATES v. AIKEN(1988) No. 86-6060 Argued: December 2, 1987Decided: January 12, 1988 </s> Petitioner was tried in state court on charges of murder and armed robbery stemming from a 1981 store robbery during which his accomplice and the storekeeper's mother were killed in a fight after petitio... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. ALLEN-BRADLEY CO.(1957) No. 78 Argued: December 13, 1956Decided: January 22, 1957 </s> Under 124 (f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, as amended, the War Production Board had authority to certify that only a part of the cost of essential wartime expansion of production... | 10 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court CHEMICAL WASTE MGMT., INC. v. HUNT(1992) No. 91-471 Argued: April 21, 1992Decided: June 1, 1992 </s> Petitioner, Chemical Waste Management, Inc., operates a commercial hazardous waste land disposal facility in Emelle, Alabama, that receives both in-state and out-of-state wastes. An Alabama ... | 6 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court BOYLE v. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP.(1988) No. 86-492 Argued: October 13, 1987Decided: June 27, 1988 </s> David A. Boyle, a United States Marine helicopter copilot, drowned when his helicopter crashed off the Virginia coast. Petitioner, the personal representative of the heirs and estate of B... | 6 | 0 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court JONES v. THOMAS(1989) No. 88-420 Argued: April 26, 1989Decided: June 19, 1989 </s> Respondent Thomas was convicted of both attempted robbery and first-degree felony murder arising out of the same incident and was sentenced to consecutive terms of 15 years for the attempted robbery and life ... | 0 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court ARNOLD TOURS v. CAMP(1970) No. 602 Argued: Decided: November 23, 1970 </s> Court of Appeals erred in dismissing complaint for lack of standing of petitioner travel agents seeking to invalidate respondent Comptroller of the Currency's ruling that national banks may provide travel services fo... | 8 | 1 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court SWANSON v. TRAER(1957) No. 149 Argued: March 27, 1957Decided: June 10, 1957 </s> This is a stockholders' derivative suit brought in a Federal District Court in Illinois on grounds of diversity of citizenship by citizens of Nevada against an Illinois corporation, certain individual citizens ... | 8 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT v. SHIRLEY A. BREEDEN(2001) No. 00-866 Argued: Decided: April 23, 2001 </s> Per Curiam. </s> Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 255, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §2000e-3(a), it is unlawful "for an employer to discriminate against any of his emplo... | 1 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court KARAHALIOS v. FEDERAL EMPLOYEES(1989) No. 87-636 Argued: January 17, 1989Decided: March 6, 1989 </s> Petitioner - a language instructor for the Defense Language Institute, a federal agency - was not a union member but was within a bargaining unit for which respondent union was the exclusive... | 8 | 0 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court CITY OF FRESNO v. CALIFORNIA(1963) No. 51 Argued: January 7, 1963Decided: April 15, 1963 </s> Claimants to water rights along the San Joaquin River below the Friant Dam in California brought suit against the United States, local officials of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, and a nu... | 6 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court BOARD OF EDUCATION, NEW YORK CITY v. HARRIS(1979) No. 78-873 Argued: Decided: November 28, 1979 </s> Section 702 (b) of the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA or Act) states that the Act's purpose is to provide federal financial assistance "to meet the special needs incident to the elimination ... | 1 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court LAKE COUNTRY ESTATES v. TAHOE PLANNING AGCY.(1979) No. 77-1327 Argued: December 4, 1978Decided: March 5, 1979 </s> California and Nevada entered into a Compact, later consented to by Congress, to create respondent Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) to coordinate and regulate development ... | 6 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court AMERICAN BROADCASTING COS. v. WRITERS GUILD(1978) No. 76-1121 Argued: December 5, 1977Decided: June 21, 1978 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 76-1153, Association of Motion Picture & Television Producers, Inc. v. Writers Guild of America, West, Inc., et al.; and No. 76-1162, National Labor... | 6 | 0 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. SHUBERT(1955) No. 36 Argued: Decided: January 31, 1955 </s> In a civil antitrust action brought by the Government to restrain alleged violations of 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, the complaint alleged, inter alia, that the defendants are engaged in the business of producing, b... | 6 | 1 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court BARTNICKI et al. v. VOPPER, aka WILLIAMS, et al.(2001) No. 99-1687 Argued: December 5, 2000Decided: May 21, 2001 </s> During contentious collective-bargaining negotiations between a union representing teachers at a Pennsylvania high school and the local school board, an unidentified person i... | 1 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court INSURANCE CORP. v. COMPAGNIE DES BAUXITES(1982) No. 81-440 Argued: March 23, 1982Decided: June 1, 1982 </s> Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(b)(2)(A) provides that a district court, as a sanction for failure to comply with discovery orders, may enter "[a]n order that the matters regarding... | 1 | 0 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. O'BRIEN(1968) No. 232 Argued: January 24, 1968Decided: May 27, 1968 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 233, O'Brien v. United States, also on certiorari to the same court. </s> O'Brien burned his Selective Service registration certificate before a sizable crowd in order to ... | 1 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court MARINE ENGINEERS v. INTERLAKE CO.(1962) No. 166 Argued: April 16, 1962Decided: June 11, 1962 </s> The two petitioner labor unions represented marine engineers employed on the Great Lakes and elsewhere. Respondents owned and operated a fleet of bulk cargo vessels on the Great Lakes, and the ... | 9 | 1 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court U.S. v. MANUFACTURERS NAT. BANK(1960) No. 350 Argued: March 31, 1960Decided: June 13, 1960 </s> In 1936, respondent's decedent divested himself of his rights in certain insurance policies on his own life by assigning them to his wife; but he continued to pay the premiums on them until he di... | 10 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court FARMERS RESERVOIR & IRRIGATION CO. V. MCCOMB(1949) No. 128 Argued: December 16, 1948Decided: June 27, 1949 </s> Rehearing Denied Oct. 10, 1949. See . [ Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co. v. McComb 337 U.S. 755 (1949) ] </s> [337 U.S. 755 , 756] </s> Messrs. John P. Akolt, Frank... | 6 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court HUGHEY v. UNITED STATES(1990) No. 89-5691 Argued: March 27, 1990Decided: May 21, 1990 </s> Pursuant to a plea agreement, petitioner Hughey pleaded guilty to using one unauthorized MBank credit card. Under the restitution provisions of the Victim and Witness Protection Act of 1982 (VWPA) - w... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court CARPENTERS LOCAL v. LABOR BOARD(1961) No. 68 Argued: Decided: April 17, 1961 </s> An employer entered into a contract with the Brotherhood of Carpenters to employ members of the union and to abide by the rules and regulations of the union applicable to the locality where work was done. Upon... | 6 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court CALIFORNIAET AL . v. DEEP SEA RESEARCH, INC., ET AL .(1998) No. 96-1400 Argued: December 1, 1997Decided: April 22, 1998 </s> </s> The S. S. Brother Jonathan and its cargo sank off the coast of Califor- </s> nia in 1865. Shortly after the disaster, five insurance companies paid claim... | 8 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court SULLIVAN v. LITTLE HUNTING PARK(1969) No. 33 Argued: October 13, 1969Decided: December 15, 1969 </s> Little Hunting Park is a Virginia nonstock corporation operating playground facilities and a community park for residents in an area in Fairfax County, Virginia. A membership share entitles ... | 1 | 1 | 4 |
United States Supreme Court U.S. v. SCHAEFER BREWING CO.(1958) No. 79 Argued: January 6, 1958Decided: April 7, 1958 </s> In respondent's suit against the Government in a Federal District Court for the recovery of money only, which was tried without a jury, the judge filed an opinion on April 14 granting respondent's m... | 8 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court CONNER v. SIMLER(1961) No. 685 Argued: Decided: June 12, 1961 </s> Rehearing and certiorari granted; judgment vacated; and case remanded. </s> Reported below: 282 F.2d 382. </s> Peyton Ford for petitioner. </s> John B. Ogden for respondent. </s> PER CURIAM. </s> The petition for rehearing ... | 0 | 0 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court CLINTON v. VIRGINIA(1964) No. 294 Argued: April 27, 1964Decided: May 4, 1964 </s> 204 Va. 275, 130 S. E. 2d 437, reversed. </s> Calvin H. Childress argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner. </s> D. Gardiner Tyler, Assistant Attorney General of Virginia, argued the cause for respond... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court LEHMAN BROTHERS v. SCHEIN(1974) No. 73-439 Argued: March 19, 1974Decided: April 29, 1974 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 73-440, Simon v. Schein et al., and No. 73-495, Investors Diversified Services, Inc., et al. v. Schein et al., also on certiorari to the same court. </s> Shareholders'... | 8 | 0 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. GAGNON(1985) No. 84-690 Argued: Decided: March 18, 1985 </s> At a recess during respondents' Federal District Court trial for participation in a cocaine distribution conspiracy, the bailiff informed the judge - in the presence of respondents, their respective counsel, and t... | 0 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL CO.(1972) No. 71-527 Argued: Decided: January 24, 1972 </s> Section 3 of the Sherman Act applies to the unorganized Territory of American Samoa. Cf. Puerto Rico v. Shell Co., 302 U.S. 253 . </s> 330 F. Supp. 371, reversed. </s> PER CURIAM. </s> The United St... | 6 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. SHEARER(1985) No. 84-194 Argued: February 25, 1985Decided: June 27, 1985 </s> Respondent's decedent, her son who was an Army private, was off duty at Fort Bliss and away from the base when he was kidnaped and murdered by another serviceman, who was convicted of the murder i... | 6 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court MILLS v. ELECTRIC AUTO-LITE(1970) No. 64 Argued: November 13, 1969Decided: January 20, 1970 </s> Petitioners, minority shareholders of respondent Electric Auto-Lite Co., brought this action derivatively and on behalf of minority shareholders as a class to set aside a merger of Auto-Lite and... | 5 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court ENTERGY CORP. v. RIVERKEEPER, INC., ET AL.(2009) No. 07-588 Argued: December 2, 2008Decided: April 1, 2009 </s> Petitioners' powerplants have "cooling water intake structures" that threaten the environment by squashing against intake screens ("impingement") or suctioning into the cooling sys... | 6 | 0 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court WAINWRIGHT v. TORNA(1982) No. 81-362 Argued: Decided: March 22, 1982 </s> Held: </s> The Federal District Court properly dismissed respondent state prisoner's habeas corpus petition asserting that he had been denied his right to the effective assistance of counsel because an application for... | 0 | 0 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court PUGACH v. DOLLINGER(1961) No. 111 Argued: January 16, 1961Decided: February 27, 1961 </s> A federal court may not enjoin the use in a criminal trial in a state court of evidence obtained by wire tapping in violation of 605 of the Federal Communications Act. Schwartz v. Texas, 344 U.S. 199... | 0 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court O'CONNOR v. ORTEGA(1987) No. 85-530 Argued: October 15, 1986Decided: March 31, 1987 </s> Respondent, a physician and psychiatrist, was an employee of a state hospital and had primary responsibility for training physicians in the psychiatric residency program. Hospital officials became conce... | 0 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court PORTLAND GOLF CLUB v. COMMISSIONER(1990) No. 89-530 Argued: April 17, 1990Decided: June 21, 1990 </s> As a nonprofit corporation that owns and operates a private social club, petitioner's income derived from membership fees and other receipts from members is exempt from income tax. However,... | 10 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court FEC v. NATIONAL CONSERVATIVE PAC(1985) No. 83-1032 Argued: November 28, 1984Decided: March 18, 1985 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 83-1122, Democratic Party of the United States et al. v. National Conservative Political Action Committee et al., also on appeal from the same court. </s> T... | 1 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court CLEVELAND BOARD OF EDUCATION v. LOUDERMILL(1985) No. 83-1362 Argued: December 3, 1984Decided: March 19, 1985 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 83-1363, Parma Board of Education v. Donnelly et al., and No. 83-6392, Loudermill v. Cleveland Board of Education et al., also on certiorari to the ... | 1 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court MILLER-EL v. DRETKE, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS DIVISION(2005) No. 03-9659 Argued: December 6, 2004Decided: June 13, 2005 </s> When Dallas County prosecutors used peremptory strikes against 10 of the 11 qualified black venire members during jury... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court CONCERNED CITIZENS v. PINE CREEK DISTRICT(1977) No. 76-667 Argued: Decided: February 22, 1977 </s> Where the District Court rejected all of appellants' challenges to the constitutionality of an Ohio statute establishing procedures for the organization and governance of conservancy districts... | 8 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. SOTELO(1978) No. 76-1800 Argued: February 22, 1978Decided: May 22, 1978 </s> Section 6672 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 provides that "[a]ny person required to collect, truthfully account for, and pay over" federal taxes who "willfully fails" to do so, shall be liabl... | 10 | 1 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court ELDER v. HOLLOWAY(1994) No. 92-8579 Argued: January 10, 1994Decided: February 23, 1994 </s> Petitioner Elder was arrested without a warrant after respondents, Idaho police officers, surrounded his house and ordered him to come out. Alleging that the arrest violated his Fourth Amendment righ... | 8 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court RYAN v. UNITED STATES(1964) No. 12 Argued: October 14, 1964Decided: November 23, 1964 </s> Government need not show probable cause for suspecting fraud in order to examine taxpayer's records for closed years. United States v. Powell, ante, p. 48, followed. P. 62. </s> 320 F.2d 500, affirme... | 10 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court GRAVEL v. UNITED STATES(1972) No. 71-1017 Argued: Decided: June 29, 1972 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 71-1026, United States v. Gravel, also on certiorari to the same court. </s> A United States Senator read to a subcommittee from classified documents (the Pentagon Papers), which he t... | 1 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court SCHWEIKER v. HOGAN(1982) No. 81-213 Argued: March 24, 1982Decided: June 21, 1982 </s> Section 1903(f) of the Social Security Act provides that federal reimbursement to States electing to provide Medicaid benefits to the "medically needy" is available only if the income of those persons, aft... | 1 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court CLEARY v. BOLGER(1963) No. 57 Argued: Decided: January 14, 1963 </s> While a state criminal prosecution and a state administrative proceeding for revocation of his license were pending against respondent, he brought this suit in a Federal District Court to enjoin a state officer and certain... | 8 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court HECKLER v. COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES(1984) No. 83-56 Argued: February 27, 1984Decided: May 21, 1984 </s> Under the Medicare program, providers of health care services are reimbursed for the reasonable cost of services rendered to Medicare beneficiaries and are required to submit annual cost... | 1 | 0 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court PICKELSIMER v. WAINWRIGHT(1963) No. 16 Argued: Decided: October 14, 1963 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 36, Misc., Mihelcich v. Wainwright, Corrections Director; No. 54, Misc., Cowan v. Wainwright, Corrections Director; No. 55, Misc., Dumond v. Wainwright, Corrections Director; No. 60, M... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court OREGON WASTE SYSTEMS v. ENVIRONMENTAL(1994) No. 93-70 Argued: January 18, 1994Decided: April 4, 1994 </s> [Footnote * Page I Together with No. 93-108, Columbia Resource Co. v. Environmental Quality Commission of the State of Oregon, also on certiorari to the same court. </s> Oregon imposes ... | 6 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court BABBITT v. SWEET HOME CHAP., COMS. FOR ORE.(1995) No. 94-859 Argued: April 17, 1995Decided: June 29, 1995 </s> As relevant here, the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or Act) makes it unlawful for any person to "take" endangered or threatened species, 9(a)(1)(B), and defines "take" to mea... | 6 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court KIMMELMAN v. MORRISON(1986) No. 84-1661 Argued: March 5, 1986Decided: June 26, 1986 </s> At respondent's bench trial in a New Jersey court resulting in his conviction of rape, a police officer testified that a few hours after the rape she accompanied the victim to respondent's apartment whe... | 0 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court KENTUCKY DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS v. THOMPSON(1989) No. 87-1815 Argued: January 18, 1989Decided: May 15, 1989 </s> Following the District Court's issuance of a consent decree settling a class action brought by Kentucky penal inmates under 42 U.S.C. 1983, the Commonwealth promulgated "Correction... | 1 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court VOLKSWAGENWERK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT v. SCHLUNK(1988) No. 86-1052 Argued: March 21, 1988Decided: June 15, 1988 </s> After his parents were killed in an automobile accident, respondent filed a wrongful death action in an Illinois court, alleging that defects in the automobile designed and sold ... | 1 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court ALLEGHENY COUNTY v. MASHUDA CO.(1959) No. 347 Argued: April 2, 1959Decided: June 8, 1959 </s> 1. A federal district court may not abstain from exercising its properly invoked diversity jurisdiction in a state eminent domain case in which the exercise of that jurisdiction would not entail th... | 8 | 1 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court ALLIED TUBE & CONDUIT CORP. v. INDIAN HEAD, INC.(1988) No. 87-157 Argued: February 24, 1988Decided: June 13, 1988 </s> The National Fire Protection Association - a private organization that includes members representing industry, labor, academia, insurers, organized medicine, firefighters, ... | 6 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court MOSELEY et al., dba VICTOR'S LITTLE SECRET v. V SECRET CATALOGUE, INC., et al.(2003) No. 01-1015 Argued: November 12, 2002Decided: March 4, 2003 </s> An army colonel sent a copy of an advertisement for petitioners' retail store, "Victor's Secret," to respondents, affiliated corporations that... | 6 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court CAMPBELL PAINTING CORP. v. REID(1968) No. 673 Argued: April 30, 1968Decided: June 10, 1968 </s> The Public Authorities Law of New York requires all contracts awarded by a public authority for work or services to provide that upon refusal of "a person" to testify before a grand jury, to answ... | 0 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court CURTIS v. LOETHER(1974) No. 72-1035 Argued: Decided: February 20, 1974 </s> The Seventh Amendment of the Constitution entitles either party to demand a jury trial in an action for damages in the federal courts under 812 of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which authorizes private plaintiffs to... | 0 | 1 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court TAYLOR v. McELROY(1959) No. 504 Argued: Decided: June 29, 1959 </s> Petitioner, a lathe operator and tool and die maker at a plant which manufactured aircraft for the Government, lost his job because of revocation of his security clearance in proceedings similar to those involved in Greene ... | 1 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court CITY OF MESQUITE v. ALADDIN'S CASTLE, INC.(1982) No. 80-1577 Argued: November 10, 1981Decided: February 23, 1982 </s> Section 6 of appellant Texas city's licensing ordinance governing coin-operated amusement establishments directs the Chief of Police to consider whether a license applicant ... | 1 | 0 | 4 |
United States Supreme Court WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES(1982) No. 80-2116 Argued: April 20, 1982Decided: June 29, 1982 </s> Title 18 U.S.C. 1014 makes it a crime to "knowingly mak[e] any false statement or report," or "willfully overvalu[e] any land, property or security," for the purpose of influencing the action of de... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. HOWARD P. FOLEY CO.(1946) No. 50 Argued: October 25, 1946Decided: November 25, 1946 </s> [329 U.S. 64, 65] Mr.A. Devitt Vaneck, of Washington, D.C., for petitioner. Mr. Alexander Heron, of Washington, D.C., for respondent. </s> Mr. Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of t... | 6 | 1 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court OSMAN v. DOUDS(1950) No. 12 Argued: Decided: June 5, 1950 </s> Section 9 (h) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, 61 Stat. 146, 29 U.S.C. 159 (h), pertaining to "non-Communist" affidavits, is valid under the Federal Constitution. American Communications Assn. v. Douds, 339 U.S... | 1 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court WILKINSON v. UNITED STATES(1961) No. 37 Argued: November 17, 1960Decided: February 27, 1961 </s> Summoned to testify before a Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, which was investigating Communist infiltration into basic industries in the South a... | 1 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court LEVINE v. UNITED STATES(1960) No. 164 Argued: March 22, 1960Decided: May 23, 1960 </s> Subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury, petitioner refused, on grounds of possible self-incrimination, to answer questions relevant to the grand jury's inquiry. The grand jury sought the aid of... | 0 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. BISCEGLIA(1975) No. 73-1245 Argued: Decided: February 19, 1975 </s> The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) held to have authority under 7601 and 7602 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to issue a "John Doe" summons to a bank or other depository to discover the identity of a p... | 10 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court SMITH v. BENNETT(1961) No. 174 Argued: March 28, 1961Decided: April 17, 1961 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 177, Marshall v. Bennett, Warden, also on certiorari to the same Court. </s> Iowa statutes that require an indigent prisoner of the State to pay a filing fee before his applicatio... | 1 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court OREGON v. MITCHELL(1970) No. 43 Argued: October 19, 1970Decided: December 21, 1970 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 44, Orig., Texas v. Mitchell, Attorney General, No. 46, Orig., United States v. Arizona, and No. 47, Orig., United States v. Idaho, also on bills of complaint. </s> These or... | 1 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court EVANSVILLE AIRPORT v. DELTA AIRLINES(1972) No. 70-99 Argued: Decided: April 19, 1972 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 70-212, Northeast Airlines, Inc., et al. v. New Hampshire Aeronautics Commission et al., on appeal from the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, argued February 24, 1972. </s> ... | 6 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court BARNHART, COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY v. PEABODY COAL CO. et al.(2003) No. 01-705 Argued: October 8, 2002Decided: January 15, 2003 </s> Under the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992 (Coal Act or Act), the Commissioner of Social Security "shall, before October 1, 1993," assig... | 1 | 1 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court EVOLA v. UNITED STATES(1963) No. 194 Argued: Decided: October 21, 1963 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 195, Santora v. United States; No. 196, Genovese v. United States; No. 197, Gigante v. United States; No. 79, Misc., DiPalermo v. United States; No. 80, Misc., DiPalermo v. United States... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court BURGER v. KEMP(1987) No. 86-5375 Argued: March 30, 1987Decided: June 26, 1987 </s> A Georgia trial court jury found petitioner guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. Both petitioner and a coindictee (Thomas Stevens) gave full confessions to the crime, and Stevens was tried later in a ... | 0 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court BULLINGTON v. MISSOURI(1981) No. 79-6740 Argued: January 14, 1981Decided: May 4, 1981 </s> Missouri law provides only two possible sentences for a defendant convicted of capital murder: (a) death, or (b) life imprisonment without eligibility for probation or parole for 50 years. Under state... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court ARAVE v. CREECH(1993) No. 91-1160 Argued: November 10, 1992Decided: March 30, 1993 </s> After respondent Creech pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for the brutal slaying of a fellow Idaho prison inmate, the state trial judge sentenced him to death based, in part, on the statutory aggrava... | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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