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United States Supreme Court ELLIS v. UNION PAC. R. CO.(1947) No. 320 Argued: Decided: February 3, 1947 </s> Mr. George Mecham, of Omaha, Neb., for petitioner. Mr. Robert B. Hamer, of Omaha, Neb., for respondent. </s> Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner was crushed between a moving rai... | 6 | 1 | 4 |
United States Supreme Court GREENE v. UNITED STATES(1959) No. 134 Argued: January 13, 1959Decided: January 26, 1959 </s> Petitioner was convicted in a Federal District Court on each of 15 counts of an indictment for violations of the narcotic laws and was sentenced to consecutive sentences of 20 months to 5 years on e... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court STANDARD OIL CO. v. PECK(1952) No. 184 Argued: Decided: February 4, 1952 </s> Ohio levied an ad valorem personal property tax on all the boats and barges owned by appellant, an Ohio corporation, and employed in transporting oil along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. The main terminals are i... | 6 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court U.S. v. GERLACH LIVE STOCK CO.(1950) No. 191 Argued: March 1, 1949Decided: June 5, 1950 </s> Respondents are owners of so-called "uncontrolled grass lands" along the San Joaquin River in California which depend for water upon seasonal inundations resulting from overflows of the River. The v... | 1 | 0 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court HANOVER BANK v. COMMISSIONER(1962) No. 224 Argued: February 27, 1962Decided: May 21, 1962 </s> The Internal Revenue Code of 1939 permits a taxpayer to deduct, through amortization, the premium he has paid in purchasing corporate bonds, and 125 provides that the amount to be amortized "shall... | 10 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court LEMON v. KURTZMAN(1971) No. 89 Argued: March 3, 1971Decided: June 28, 1971 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 569, Earley et al. v. DiCenso et al., and No. 570, Robinson, Commissioner of Education of Rhode Island, et al. v. DiCenso et al., on appeal from the United States District Court for ... | 1 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court DEPARTMENT OF LABOR v. TRIPLETT(1990) No. 88-1671 Argued: January 16, 1990Decided: March 27, 1990 </s> The Black Lung Benefits Act of 1972 prohibits attorneys from receiving fees for representing claimants except as approved by petitioner Department of Labor. In implementing this provision,... | 5 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court FPC v. NEW ENGLAND POWER CO.(1974) No. 72-1162 Argued: December 3, 1973Decided: March 4, 1974 </s> The Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952 (the Act), authorizes each federal agency to prescribe a fee, charge, or price for services provided by the agency "to or for any person (includ... | 6 | 0 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court WEINBERGER v. HYNSON, WESTCOTT & DUNNING(1973) No. 72-394 Argued: April 17, 1973Decided: June 18, 1973 </s> The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, as amended in 1962, establishes a system of premarketing clearance for drugs and prohibits in 505 (a) the introduction into commerce ... | 6 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court RENO, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, et al. v. AMERICAN CIVIL(1997) No. 96-511 Argued: March 19, 1997Decided: June 26, 1997 </s> </s> Two provisions of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA or Act) seek to protect minors from harmful material on the Internet, an intern... | 1 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. WATSON(1976) No. 74-538 Argued: October 8, 1975Decided: January 26, 1976 </s> A postal inspector received from an informant of known reliability a stolen credit card that respondent had given the informant to be used for their mutual advantage, and the inspector was told by... | 0 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court BARBER v. GONZALES(1954) No. 431 Argued: March 10, 1954Decided: June 7, 1954 </s> Respondent was born a national of the United States in the Philippine Islands, came to the continental United States from the Philippine Islands as a national prior to the Philippine Independence Act of 1934, ... | 1 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court CALIFORNIA v. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA(1987) No. 86-381 Argued: April 22, 1987Decided: June 9, 1987 </s> The Extradition Act, which implements the Extradition Clause of Article IV, requires an asylum State to give up to a demanding State a fugitive against whom a properly certified indi... | 0 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court HAWAII v. GORDON(1963) No. 12 Argued: April 15, 1963Decided: April 29, 1963 </s> The State of Hawaii filed this original action against the Director of the Bureau of the Budget under Art. III, 2, of the Constitution, seeking to obtain an order requiring him to (1) withdraw his advice to fed... | 9 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court CHAPMAN v. MEIER(1975) No. 73-1406 Argued: November 13, 1974Decided: January 27, 1975 </s> This case involves the issue of the constitutionality of a federal-court-ordered reapportionment of the North Dakota Legislative Assembly. Following protracted state and federal litigation challenging... | 1 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court WILSON et al. v. LAYNE, DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL, et al.(1999) No. 98-83 Argued: March 24, 1999Decided: May 24, 1999 </s> While executing a warrant to arrest petitioners' son in their home, respondents, deputy federal marshals and local sheriff's deputies, invited a newspaper reporter ... | 0 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court PENNHURST STATE SCHOOL v. HALDERMAN(1981) No. 79-1404 Argued: December 8, 1980Decided: April 20, 1981 </s> The Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act (Act) established a federal-state grant program whereby the Federal Government provides financial assistance to participa... | 1 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court PATTON v. YOUNT(1984) No. 83-95 Argued: February 28, 1984Decided: June 26, 1984 </s> After a jury trial in a Pennsylvania state court in 1966, respondent was convicted of first-degree murder and rape, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. However, on direct appeal the Pennsylvania Supreme... | 0 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court REID v. COVERT(1956) No. 701 Argued: May 3, 1956Decided: June 11, 1956 </s> Pursuant to Article 2(11) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the dependent wife of a United States Air Force sergeant was tried and convicted by a military court-martial in England for the murder of her husban... | 1 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court U.S. v. CENTRAL EUREKA MINING CO.(1958) No. 29 Argued: January 7, 1958Decided: June 16, 1958 </s> In 1942, the War Production Board issued an order requiring non-essential gold mines, including those of respondents, to cease operating; but the Government did not occupy, use or take physical... | 1 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court GRAY v. SANDERS(1963) No. 112 Argued: January 17, 1963Decided: March 18, 1963 </s> Appellee, a qualified voter in primary and general elections in Fulton county, Georgia, sued in a Federal District Court to restrain appellants, the Secretary of State and officials of the State Democratic Ex... | 1 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court PLAINS COMMERCE BANK v. LONG FAMILY LAND & CATTLE CO., INC., ET AL.(2008) No. 07-411 Argued: April 14, 2008Decided: June 25, 2008 </s> Petitioner Plains Commerce Bank (Bank), a non-Indian bank, sold land it owned in fee simple on a tribal reservation to non-Indians. Respondents the Longs, a... | 1 | 0 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court SIMON v. EASTERN KY. WELFARE RIGHTS ORG.(1976) No. 74-1124 Argued: December 10, 1975Decided: June 1, 1976 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 74-1110, Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization et al. v. Simon, Secretary of the Treasury, et al., also on certiorari to the same court. </s> R... | 8 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court DENNIS v. UNITED STATES(1950) No. 14 Argued: November 7, 1949Decided: March 27, 1950 </s> Petitioner, who is General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States, was convicted in the District of Columbia of violating R. S. 102, 2 U.S.C. 192, by willfully failing to appear before t... | 0 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court THOMPSON v. COASTAL OIL CO.(1956) No. 20 Argued: Decided: October 15, 1956 </s> Messrs. Charles A. Ellis and Silas Blake Axtell, for petitioner. Mr. Michael E. Hanrahan, for respondent. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. </s> PER CURIAM. ... | 6 | 1 | 0 |
United States Supreme Court BROWN v. WESTERN R. OF ALABAMA(1949) No. 43 Argued: October 19, 1949Decided: November 21, 1949 </s> In an action in a state court for damages under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, the trial court sustained a general demurrer to the complaint and dismissed the action. Under the state l... | 6 | 1 | 4 |
United States Supreme Court CAMARA v. MUNICIPAL COURT(1967) No. 92 Argued: February 15, 1967Decided: June 5, 1967 </s> Appellant was charged with violating the San Francisco Housing Code for refusing, after three efforts by city housing inspectors to secure his consent, to allow a warrantless inspection of the ground-... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court WEBB v. TEXAS(1972) No. 71-6647 Argued: Decided: December 4, 1972 </s> Trial court's extended admonition to petitioner's only witness to refrain from lying, coupled with threats of dire consequences if witness did lie, effectively discouraged the witness from testifying at all and deprived ... | 0 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court COMMISSIONER v. TUFTS(1983) No. 81-1536 Argued: November 29, 1982Decided: May 2, 1983 </s> Section 752(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (IRC) provides that liabilities involved in the sale or exchange of a partnership interest are to be treated "in the same manner as liabilities in c... | 10 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court BOARD OF EDUCATION v. ALLEN(1968) No. 660 Argued: April 22, 1968Decided: June 10, 1968 </s> New York's Education Law requires local public school authorities to lend textbooks free of charge to all students in grades seven to 12, including those in private schools. Appellant school boards s... | 1 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court RICHARDSON v. MORRIS(1973) No. 72-603 Argued: Decided: January 15, 1973 </s> District Court, which granted appellees an injunction against enforcement of 203 (a) of the Social Security Act, erred in assuming jurisdiction under Tucker Act, which does not authorize suits for equitable relief.... | 8 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court LINER v. JAFCO, INC.(1964) No. 43 Argued: November 21, 1963Decided: January 6, 1964 </s> The Chattanooga Building Trades Council comprises numerous building trades unions, including the Hod-Carriers Union and its Local 846, two of the petitioners. Respondent Rea Construction Co., a large No... | 9 | 1 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court WHELCHEL v. McDONALD(1950) No. 109 Argued: November 10, 1950Decided: December 4, 1950 </s> Petitioner, while on active duty with the United States Army in Germany, was convicted of rape by a general court-martial. He applied to the Federal District Court for a writ of habeas corpus, challen... | 1 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO. v. TRAIN(1977) No. 75-978 Argued: December 8, 1976Decided: February 23, 1977 </s> [Footnote * Together with No. 75-1473, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. et al. v. Train, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, and No. 75-1705, Train, Administrator, Envir... | 6 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court HILLS v. GAUTREAUX(1976) No. 74-1047 Argued: January 20, 1976Decided: April 20, 1976 </s> Respondents, Negro tenants in or applicants for public housing in Chicago, brought separate class actions against the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development... | 1 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court KANSAS v. MARSH(2006) No. 04-1170 Argued: December 7, 2005Decided: June 26, 2006 </s> Finding three aggravating circumstances that were not outweighed by mitigating circumstances, a Kansas jury convicted respondent Marsh of, inter alia, capital murder and sentenced him to death. Marsh claim... | 0 | 0 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court DANIELS v. WILLIAMS(1986) No. 84-5872 Argued: November 6, 1985Decided: January 21, 1986 </s> Petitioner brought an action in Federal District Court under 42 U.S.C. 1983, seeking to recover damages for injuries allegedly sustained when, while an inmate in a Richmond, Virginia, jail, he slipp... | 1 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court U.S. v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMM'N.(1953) No. 205 Argued: January 14, 1953Decided: April 6, 1953 </s> Respondent power company produces electricity in California, partially by hydroelectric projects licensed under Part I of the Federal Power Act, as amended by Title II of the Public Utility Ac... | 9 | 1 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court ELECTRICAL WORKERS v. ROBBINS & MYERS, INC.(1976) No. 75-1264 Argued: November 9, 1976Decided: December 20, 1976 </s> Two days after her discharge by respondent company, petitioner Guy, a Negro, caused a grievance alleging "unfair action" to be filed on her behalf pursuant to procedures in ... | 1 | 1 | 1 |
United States Supreme Court U.S. v. CITIZENS & SOUTHERN NATIONAL BANK(1975) No. 73-1933 Argued: March 19, 1975Decided: June 17, 1975 </s> To circumvent Georgia's longstanding stringent restrictions on city banks' opening branches in suburban areas, appellee Citizens & Southern National Bank (C&S National) formed a hol... | 6 | 0 | 2 |
United States Supreme Court POPE v. ILLINOIS(1987) No. 85-1973 Argued: February 24, 1987Decided: May 4, 1987 </s> Under Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 , the third or "value" prong of the tripartite test for judging whether material is obscene requires the trier of fact to determine "whether the work, taken as a w... | 1 | 0 | 3 |
United States Supreme Court DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION et al. v. PUBLIC CITIZEN et al.(2004) No. 03-358 Argued: April 21, 2004Decided: June 7, 2004 </s> The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) requires federal agencies to analyze the environmental impact of their proposals and actions in an Environmental... | 6 | 0 | 2 |
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