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delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents a challenge to a New Jersey statute, 1974 N. J. Laws, c. 25, as violative of the Contract Clause1 of the United States Constitution. That statute, together with a concurrent and parallel New York statute, 1974 N. Y. Laws, c. 993, repealed a statutory covenant made by the two States in 1962 that had limited the ability of The Port Authority of ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. This litigation brings here several important questions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e et seg. (1970 ed. and Supp. V). The issues grow out of alleged unlawful employment practices engaged in by an employer and a union. The employer is a common carrier of motor freight with nationwide operations, and...
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433 U.S. 25 (1977) MIREE ET AL. v. DEKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA, ET AL. No. 76-607. Supreme Court of the United States. Argued April 27, 1977. Decided June 21, 1977[*] CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT *26 Alan W. Heldman and J. Arthur Mozley argued the cause for petitioners in all cases. With Mr. Heldman on the briefs for petitioners in No. 76-607 were Gilbert E. J...
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434 U.S. 35 (1977) CITIZENS & SOUTHERN NATIONAL BANK v. BOUGAS. No. 76-398. Supreme Court of United States. Argued October 3, 1977. Decided November 8, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF GEORGIA. William C. Humphreys, Jr., argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Daniel B. Hodgson. Michael J. Kovacich argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent. MR. JUSTICE BL...
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430 U.S. 313 (1977) CALIFANO, SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE v. WEBSTER. No. 76-457. Supreme Court of United States. Decided March 21, 1977. ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. *314 PER CURIAM. Under § 215 of the Social Security Act, as added, 64 Stat. 506, and amended, 42 U. S. C. § 415 (1970 ed. and Supp. V), old-age insurance benef...
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This tort action was removed from the Texas state courts to the United States District Court on the grounds of diversity of citizenship but was remanded as having been “improperly removed” when it seemed that there was not complete diversity among the parties. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, by mandamus, ordered the District Court to vacate its remand order because the latter had empl...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The petitioners, collectively described as “Bayside,” are three affiliated corporations operating a large, vertically integrated poultry business in Maine. 1 The question they present is whether six of their employees, who truck poultry feed from their feedmill to 119 farms on which their chickens are being raised, are “agricultural laborers” ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. This lawsuit began when the State of Oregon sued Corvallis Sand & Gravel Co., an Oregon corporation, to settle the ownership of certain lands underlying the Willamette River. The Willamette is a navigable river, and this land is located near Corvallis, Oregon. The river is not an interstate boundary. Corvallis Sand had been digging in the disputed part of the ri...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented by this case is whether the provision of a collective-bargaining agreement between petitioner, a general contractor, and the Oregon State Council of Carpenters, requiring that petitioner pay contributions to certain trust funds with respect to hours of carpentry work performed by employees of a nonsignatory subcontractor, violated §302 (a)...
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429 U.S. 452 (1977) UNITED STATES ET AL. v. COUNTY OF FRESNO. No. 75-1262. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 8-9, 1976. Decided January 25, 1977.[*] APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL OF CALIFORNIA, FIFTH APPELLATE DISTRICT. *453 Howard E. Shapiro argued the cause for the United States et al. On the brief were Solicitor General Bork, Assistant Attorney General Crampton, Stuart A. Smith...
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429 U.S. 507 (1977) NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v. ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION OF STEAM, HOT WATER, HYDRAULIC SPRINKLER, PNEUMATIC TUBE, ICE MACHINE & GENERAL PIPEFITTERS OF NEW YORK AND VICINITY, LOCAL UNION NO. 638. No. 75-777. Supreme Court of United States. Argued October 6, 1976. Decided February 22, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUI...
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The petitioner, while employed by the respondents as a seaman on the SS Penn Sailor, slipped on wet paint, injuring his right wrist and elbow. He sued the respondents under the Jones Act, 46 U. S. C. § 688, and obtained a $90,000 verdict at his juiy trial. The respondents moved to set aside the verdict as excessive. Fed. Rules Civ. Proc. 50, 59. The District Court granted the motion, and ordere...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Inorganic chemical manufacturing plants operated by the eight petitioners in Nos. 75-978 and 75-1473 discharge various *115 pollutants into the Nation’s waters and therefore are “point sources” within the meaning of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Act), as added and amended by § 2 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendment...
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430 U.S. 141 (1977) CITY OF PHILADELPHIA ET AL. v. NEW JERSEY ET AL. No. 75-1150. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 3, 1976. Decided February 23, 1977. ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY. Herbert F. Moore argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Arthur Meisel and John R. Padova. Stephen Skillman, Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey, argued the ca...
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431 U.S. 99 (1977) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY v. BROWN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, ET AL. No. 75-909. Supreme Court of United States. Argued January 12, 1977. Decided May 2, 1977.[*] CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. Deputy Solicitor General Randolph argued the cause for petitioners in Nos. 75-909 and 75-960, for petitioner in No. 75-1055, and for responden...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this case is the validity of two Virginia statutes that limit the right of nonresidents and aliens to catch fish in the territorial waters of the Commonwealth. I Persons or corporations wishing to fish commercially in Virginia must obtain licenses. Section 28.1-81.1 of the Virginia Code (§81.1) (Supp. 1976),1 enacted in 1975, limits the *268issuance...
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431 U.S. 494 (1977) MOORE v. CITY OF EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO. No. 75-6289. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 2, 1976. Decided May 31, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF OHIO, CUYAHOGA COUNTY. *495 Edward R. Stege, Jr., argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief were Francis D. Murtaugh, Jr., and Lloyd B. Snyder. Leonard Young argued the cause for appellee. With him on...
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431 U.S. 666 (1977) STENCEL AERO ENGINEERING CORP. v. UNITED STATES. No. 76-321. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 22, 1977. Decided June 9, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. *667 Thomas J. Whalen argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner. Thomas S. Martin argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Acting Solic...
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431 U.S. 801 (1977) LEFKOWITZ, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NEW YORK v. CUNNINGHAM ET AL. No. 76-260. Supreme Court of United States. Argued February 28-March 1, 1977. Decided June 13, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. *802 Irving Galt, Assistant Attorney General of New York, argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief were Louis J. Lefkowi...
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announced the judgment of the Court and an opinion in which The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Powell, and Mr. Justice Rehnquist join. This case involves the extent of the protection against multiple prosecutions afforded by the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment, under circumstances in which the defendant opposes the Government’s efforts to try charges under 21 U. S. C. §§ 846 and 848 in o...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1972 Congress amended the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA or Act), 33 U. S. C. § 901 et seq., in substantial part to “extend [the Act’s] coverage to protect additional workers.” S. Rep. No. 92-1125, p. 1 (1972) (hereinafter S. Rep.). 1 In these consolidated cases we must determine whether respondents Ca...
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432 U.S. 312 (1977) THIRD NATIONAL BANK IN NASHVILLE v. IMPAC LIMITED, INC., ET AL. No. 76-674. Supreme Court of United States. Argued April 26, 1977. Decided June 17, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE. Thomas P. Kanaday, Jr., argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner. Gail P. Pigg argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents. MR. JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinio...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. As part of its regulation of the Arizona Bar, the Supreme Court of that State has imposed and enforces a disciplinary-rule that restricts advertising by attorneys. This case presents two issues: whether §§ 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U. S. C. §§ 1 and 2, forbid such state regulation, and whether the operation of the rule violates the First Amendment, made app...
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433 U.S. 425 (1977) NIXON v. ADMINISTRATOR OF GENERAL SERVICES ET AL. No. 75-1605. Supreme Court of the United States. Argued April 20, 1977. Decided June 28, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA *428 Herbert J. Miller, Jr., and Nathan Lewin argued the cause *429 for appellant. With them on the briefs were R. Stan Mortenson, Raymond G. Larroca, Martin D....
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announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion in which Mr. Justice Stewart and Mr. Justice Powell join. I After nine years of litigation in the Illinois state courts, the Supreme Court of Illinois affirmed a judgment in favor of petitioner and against respondents in the amount of $7,363,500. Shortly afterwards the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois en...
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The motion, of D. C. Federation of Civic Associations et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. To stem the flow of traffic from commercial and industrial districts into adjoining residential neighborhoods, Arlington County, Va., adopted zoning ordinance § 29D. The ordinance directs the County Manager to determine those residential...
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Appellant John Connally was indicted, tried, and convicted in the Superior Court of Walker County, Ga., for possession of marihuana in violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act, Ga. Code Ann. § 79A-801 et seq. (1973). On his appeal to the Supreme Court of Georgia, he asserted trial error in four respects: the constitutional impropriety of the fee system governing the issuance of search...
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429 U.S. 252 (1977) VILLAGE OF ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ET AL. v. METROPOLITAN HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP. ET AL. No. 75-616. Supreme Court of United States. Argued October 13, 1976. Decided January 11, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. *254 Jack M. Siegel argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioners. F. Willis Caruso argued the cause for respondents. Wit...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent Doyle sued petitioner Mt. Healthy Board of Education in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Doyle claimed that the Board’s refusal to renew his contract in 1971 violated his rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. After a bench trial the District Court held that Doyle ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Under the program administered by the Secretary of Agriculture and cooperating state agencies pursuant to the Food Stamp Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 703, 7 U. S. C. § 2011 et seg. (1970 ed. and Supp. V), certain low-income households are entitled to purchase food coupons at a discount. The price an eligible household must pay for food stamps is dete...
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429 U.S. 305 (1977) LOCAL 3489, UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, ET AL. v. USERY, SECRETARY OF LABOR. No. 75-657. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 30, 1976. Decided January 12, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. *306 Carl B. Frankel argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Alfred E. Lawson, George H. Cohen, M...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case we are asked to decide the constitutionality of a recent amendment to New York State’s longstanding tax on securities transactions. Since 1905, New York has imposed a tax (transfer tax) on securities transactions, if part of the transaction occurs within the State. In 1968, the state legislature amended the transfer tax statute so that trans...
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429 U.S. 338 (1977) G. M. LEASING CORP. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. No. 75-235. Supreme Court of United States. Argued October 4, 1976. Decided January 12, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT. *340 Richard J. Leedy argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioners. Solicitor General Bork argued the cause for the United States et al. With him on the brie...
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When appellant failed to pay 1961 real estate taxes pertaining to her one-quarter interest in the oil and gas in 68 acres of land in Kanawha County, W. Va., the interest became subject to transfer to the State under West Virginia statutory procedures that afford notice to the landowner only through the posting of a delinquency list on the county courthouse door and the publication of the list in ...
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A Louisiana statute * forbids performance of an abortion on a minor without her parents’ consent, or her husband’s consent if she is married. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana enjoined enforcement of the statute. Its decision discusses only these special requirements for abortions on minors, but the injunction appears *400 to extend to the entire statute, ...
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429 U.S. 413 (1977) UNITED STATES v. DONOVAN ET AL. No. 75-212. Supreme Court of United States. Argued October 13, 1976. Decided January 18, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. *415 Deputy Solicitor General Frey argued the cause for the United States. On the brief were Solicitor General Bork, Assistant Attorney General Thornburgh, Harriet S. Shapiro, Sidn...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. This case raises important questions concerning the interrelationship of the antimerger and private damages action provisions of the Clayton Antitrust Act. *479 I Petitioner is one of the two largest manufacturers of bowling equipment in the United States. Respondents are three of the 10 bowling centers owned by Treadway Companies, Inc...
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429 U.S. 492 (1977) OREGON v. MATHIASON. No. 76-201. Supreme Court of United States. Decided January 25, 1977. ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OREGON. PER CURIAM. Respondent Carl Mathiason was convicted of first-degree burglary after a bench trial in which his confession was critical to the State's case. At trial he moved to suppress the confession as the fruit of quest...
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429 U.S. 501 (1977) STANTON v. STANTON. No. 76-512. Supreme Court of United States. Decided January 25, 1977. ON APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF UTAH. PER CURIAM. This appeal brings before us for the second time the Utah Supreme Court's construction of Utah Code Ann. § 15-2-1 (1973),[1] which established 21 as the age of majority for males, and 18 as the age for females, as applied to a parent's...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue here is whether in the circumstances present in this case the conduct of an undercover agent for a state law enforcement agency deprived respondent Bursey of his right to the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed him by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution or deprived him of due process of law in violation of the F...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this federal income tax case is whether an accrual-basis corporate taxpayer, by delivering its fully secured promissory demand note to the trustees of its qualified employees' profit-sharing trust, is. entitled to a deduction therefor under § 404 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, 26 U. S. C. §404 (a).1 *571I The pertinent facts are stipulate...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The constitutional question presented is whether the State of New York may record, in a centralized computer file, the names and addresses of all persons who have obtained, pursuant to a doctor’s prescription, certain drugs for which there is both a lawful and an unlawful market. The District Court enjoined enforcement of the portions of the New York State Contr...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. In exchange for respondent’s promise to purchase prefabricated houses to be erected on land near Louisville, Ky., petitioners agreed to finance the cost of acquiring and developing the land. Difficulties arose while the development was in progress, and respondent (Fortner) commenced this treble-damages action, claiming that the transaction was a tying arrangemen...
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429 U.S. 624 (1977) CODD, POLICE COMMISSIONER, CITY OF NEW YORK, ET AL. v. VELGER. No. 75-812. Supreme Court of United States. Argued December 1, 1976. Decided February 22, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. W. Bernard Richland argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioners. Sam Resnicoff argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Ed...
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The motion of Eddie Thomas et al. for leave to file a brief, as amici curiae, is granted. In November 1970, the Board of Supervisors of Warren County, Miss., submitted a county redistricting plan to the Attorney General for his approval under § 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 1 The new plan was to replace a *643 plan in effect since 1929. After requesting and receiving additional info...
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with whom Mr. Justice Powell and Mr. Justice Stevens join, dissenting. The action the Court takes today in this appeal is unexplained and very likely inexplicable. The three-judge District Court heard the case and rendered a final decision on the merits. It concluded that our affirmance in Orr v. Allen, 248 U. S. 35 (1918), and principles of stare decisis, compelled rejection of the constitutional...
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Concurring Opinion Judge Gurfein concurred “generally” in Judge Timbers’ opinion for the court. On the issue of standing, Judge Gurfein agreed with the District Court’s approach in considering the matter as one of “causation before considering the question of standing.” 480 F. 2d, at 393. Under Judge Gurfein’s approach, Chris-Craft had standing because Bangor’s acquisitions of Piper shares were ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. An Act of Congress providing for distribution of funds to certain Delaware Indians, pursuant to an award by the Indian Claims Commission to redress a breach by the United States of an 1854 treaty, is challenged in this action by a group of Delawares excluded from the distribution. The question presented by this litigation is whether their exclusion denies them e...
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430 U.S. 99 (1977) CALIFANO, SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE v. SANDERS. No. 75-1443. Supreme Court of United States. Argued January 11-12, 1977. Decided February 23, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. Maurice Rosenberg argued the cause for petitioner. With *100 him on the briefs were Solicitor General Bork, Assistant Attorney General Lee, ...
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430 U.S. 140 97 S.Ct. 1166 51 L.Ed.2d 228 UNITED STATES, plaintiff,v.States of FLORIDA and Texas No. 54 Supreme Court of the United States February 23, 1977 Feb. 23, 1977. PER CURIAM. 1 The exceptions of the States of Florida and Texas to the Report of the Special Master, 429 U.S. 810, 97 S.Ct. 48, 50 L.Ed.2d 70 (1976), are overruled and the...
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430 U.S. 144 (1977) UNITED JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS OF WILLIAMSBURGH, INC., ET AL. v. CAREY, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, ET AL. No. 75-104. Supreme Court of United States. Argued October 6, 1976. Decided March 1, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. *146 Nathan Lewin argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioners. George D. Zuckerman, Assistant Attorney General...
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430 U.S. 188 (1977) MARKS ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. No. 75-708. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 1-2, 1976. Decided March 1, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. Robert Eugene Smith argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief were Gilbert H. Deitch and Andrew Dennison. Solicitor General Bork argued the cause for the United States....
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concurring in the judgment. Although my conclusion is the same, my appraisal of the relevant discrimination and my reasons for concluding that it is unjustified, are somewhat different from those expressed by Mr. Justice Brennan. First, I agree with Mr. Justice Rehnquist that the constitutional question raised by this plaintiff requires us to focus on his claim for benefits rather than his decease...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. This case raises the question of whether a party to a collective-bargaining contract may be required to arbitrate a contractual dispute over severance pay pursuant to the arbitration clause of that agreement even though the dispute, although governed by the contract, arises after its termination. Only the issue of arbitrability is before us. (1) In 1970, petitio...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. New York law provides that a new county charter will go into effect only if it is approved in a referendum election by separate majorities of the voters who live in the cities within the county, and of those who live outside the cities. A three-judge Federal District Court held that these requirements violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amen...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Once again we are presented with “ 'the perennial problem of the validity of a state tax for the privilege of carrying on, within a state, certain activities’ related to a corporation’s operation of an interstate business.” Colonial Pipeline Co. v. Traigle, 421 U. S. 100, 101 (1975), quoting Memphis Gas Co. v. Stone...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this case is whether the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, pre-empts a tort action brought in state court by a Union member against the Union and its officials to recover damages for the intentional infliction of emotional distress. I Petitioner Richard T. Hill 1 was a carpenter and a member of Local 25 of the Un...
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A pretrial order entered by the District Court of Oklahoma County enjoined members of the news media from “publishing, broadcasting, or disseminating, in any manner, the name or picture of [a] minor child” in connection with a juvenile proceeding involving that child then pending in that court. On application for prohibition and mandamus challenging the. order as a prior restraint on the press vi...
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The motion of American Orthopsychiatric Association et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae is granted. This case from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit involves the proper scope of three-judge-court jurisdiction under 28 U. S. C. § 2281. * Petitioners brought suit challenging allegedly unconstitutional punitive and inhumane conditions in Texas institutions h...
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The motion to strike the brief of the United States as amicus curiae is denied. Petitioners in this case attacked the overcrowding in Florida’s prisons as violative of the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment, made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth. A single District Judge found substantial constitutional violations and issued a preliminary injunction ordering...
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430 U.S. 327 (1977) JUIDICE ET AL., JUDGES v. VAIL ET AL. No. 75-1397. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 30, 1976. Decided March 22, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. *328 A. Seth Greenwald, Assistant Attorney General of New York, argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General,...
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430 U.S. 349 (1977) GARDNER v. FLORIDA. No. 74-6593. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 30, 1976. Decided March 22, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA. *351 Charles H. Livingston argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were James A. Gardner, Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Peggy C. Davis, and Anthony G. Amsterdam. Wallace E. Allbritton, Assistant At...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent is in custody pursuant to a sentence imposed by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.1 He has filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia asking that court to review the constitutionality of the proceedings that *374led to his conviction and sentence. The question presente...
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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 *390Court ruled that under the United States Constitution Williams is entitled to a new trial, and a divided Court of Appeals for the E...
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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. I After extensive investigation, Congress concluded, in 1970, that work-related deaths and injuries had become a “drasti...
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430 U.S. 462 (1977) SANTA FE INDUSTRIES, INC., ET AL. v. GREEN ET AL. No. 75-1753. Supreme Court of United States. Argued January 18-19, 1977. Decided March 23, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. *464 William R. Glendon argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Robert D. Larsen and Guy C. Quinlan. Sidney Bender argued the cause for r...
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dissenting. In my view, the findings of the District Court in this case cannot be said to be “clearly erroneous.” Fed. Rule Civ. Proc. 52 (a); United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 333 U. S. 364, 394-395.* Given those findings, there was no constitutional violation in the selection of the grand jury that indicted the respondent. Upon that basis I would reverse the judgment of the Court of App...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner Jones is Director of the Department of Weights and Measures in Riverside County, Cal.1 In that capacity he ordered removed from sale bacon packaged by respondent Rath Packing Co. and flour packaged by three millers, respondents General Mills, Inc., Pillsbury Co., and Seaboard Allied Milling Corp. (hereafter millers). Jones acted after determining, by ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellant National Geographic Society, a nonprofit scientific and educational corporation of the District of Columbia, maintains two offices in California that solicit advertising copy for the Society’s monthly magazine, the National Geographic Magazine. However, the offices perform no activities related to the Society’s operation of a mail-order business for th...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. A “hopelessly deadlocked” jury was discharged when unable to agree upon a verdict at the criminal contempt trial of respondent corporations in the District Court for the Western District of Texas.1 Federal Rule Crim. Proc. 29 (c) provides *566that in such case “a motion for judgment of acquittal may be made . . . within 7 days after the jury is discharged [and] ...
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430 U.S. 584 (1977) ROSEBUD SIOUX TRIBE v. KNEIP, GOVERNOR OF SOUTH DAKOTA, ET AL. No. 75-562. Supreme Court of United States. Argued January 12, 1977. Decided April 4, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Marvin J. Sonosky argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner. William J. Janklow, Attorney General of South Dakota, argued the cause for responde...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. After World War II Congress authorized retirement pay for nonregular military personnel with at least 20 years of service in the Reserves or National Guard. 1 However, under 10 U. S. C. § 1331 (c), those who had been in the Reserves before World War II are not eligible for benefits unless they performed active duty during wartime. 2 Appellee had no such a...
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430 U.S. 641 (1977) UNITED STATES v. ANTELOPE ET AL. No. 75-661. Supreme Court of United States. Argued January 18, 1977. Decided April 19, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. *642 Deputy Solicitor General Frey argued the cause for the United States. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Bork, Assistant Attorney General Thornburgh, Harry R. Sachse...
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430 U.S. 651 (1977) INGRAHAM ET AL. v. WRIGHT ET AL. No. 75-6527. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 2-3, 1976. Decided April 19, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. *652 Bruce S. Rogow argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Howard W. Dixon and Peter M. Siegel. *653 Frank A. Howard, Jr., argued the cause and filed a bri...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue on appeal is whether the State of New Hampshire may constitutionally enforce criminal sanctions against *707persons who cover the motto “Live Free or Die” on passenger vehicle license plates because that motto is repugnant to their moral and religious beliefs. (1) Since 1969 New Hampshire has required that noncommercial vehicles bear license plates emb...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The question for decision is how unearned premium reserves for accident and health (A&H) insurance policies should be allocated between a primary insurer and a reinsurer for federal tax purposes. We granted certiorari in these three cases to resolve a conflict between the Circuits and the Court of Claims. 425 U. S. 990 (1976). I An insurance company is considere...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. At issue in this case is the constitutionality of § 12 of the Illinois Probate Act1 which allows illegitimate children to inherit by intestate succession only from their mothers. Under Illinois law, legitimate children are allowed to inherit by intestate succession from both their mothers and their fathers.2 I Appellant Deta Mona Trimble is the illegitimate daug...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. This case brings before us a constitutional challenge to §§ 101 (b) (1) (D) and 101 (b) (2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (Act), 66 Stat. 182, as amended, 8 U. S. C. §§ 1101 (b) (1) (D) and 1101 (b) (2). I The Act grants special preference immigration status to aliens who qualify as the “children” or “parents” of United States citizens or lawful...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this case is whether States must protect the right of prisoners to access to the courts by providing them with law libraries or alternative sources of legal knowledge. In Younger v. Gilmore, 404 U. S. 15 (1971), we held per curiam that such services are constitutionally mandated. Petitioners, officials of the State of North Carolina, ask us *818to o...
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431 U.S. 63 (1977) BLACKLEDGE, WARDEN, ET AL. v. ALLISON. No. 75-1693. Supreme Court of United States. Argued February 22, 1977. Decided May 2, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT. *64 Richard N. League, Assistant Attorney General of North *65 Carolina, argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs was Rufus L. Edmisten, Attorney General. C. Fr...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether the First Amendment permits a municipality to prohibit the posting of “For Sale” or “Sold” signs when the municipality acts to stem what it perceives as the flight of white homeowners from a racially integrated community. Petitioner Linmark Associates, a New Jersey corporation, owned a piece of realty in the t...
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431 U.S. 105 (1977) DIXON, SECRETARY OF STATE OF ILLINOIS v. LOVE. No. 75-1513. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 1-2, 1977. Decided May 16, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. *106 Patricia Rosen, Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, argued the cause for appellant. With her on the briefs were William J. Scott, Attorney General, ...
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431 U.S. 119 (1977) KREMENS, HOSPITAL DIRECTOR, ET AL. v. BARTLEY ET AL. No. 75-1064. Supreme Court of United States. Argued December 1, 1976. Decided May 16, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. *120 Norman J. Watkins, Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Robert P. Kane, Attor...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent is in petitioner’s custody pursuant to a conviction for second-degree murder. The question presented to us is whether the New York State trial judge’s failure to instruct the jury on the issue of causation was constitutional error requiring a Federal District Court to grant habeas corpus relief. Disagreeing with a divided panel of the Court of Appeals...
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The judgment is reversed. Turner v. Fouche, 396 U. S. 346, 361-364 (1970)....
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The motion of We the People for leave to file a brief, as amicus curiae, is granted. The motion of James W. Jeffords, et al., for leave to file a brief, as amici curiae, is granted. Appellant challenges the operation of certain provisions of the Postal Revenue and Federal Salary Act of 1967, 2 U. S. C. §§ 351-361, and of the 1975 Executive Salary Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act, 2 U. S. C. § ...
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Appellee’s 18-year-old son was shot and killed by police while attempting to escape arrest. Appellee filed suit under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 against the police officers in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. He sought to recover damages, and also to obtain a declaratory judgment that the Missouri statutes authorizing the police action were unconstitutional. ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari to decide whether a witness who, while under investigation for possible criminal activity, is *175 called to testify before a grand jury and who is later indicted for perjury committed before the grand jury, is entitled to have the false testimony suppressed on the ground that no effective warning of the Fifth Amendment privilege to re...
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431 U.S. 181 (1977) UNITED STATES v. WASHINGTON. No. 74-1106. Supreme Court of United States. Argued December 6, 1976. Decided May 23, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS. William F. Sheehan III argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Bork, *182 Assistant Attorney General Thornburgh, Deputy Solicitor General Frey, and Sidney M...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The question for decision in this case is whether the provision of § 22 of the 1950 Organic Act of Guam that the District Court of Guam “shall have such appellate jurisdiction as the [Guam] legislature may determine” authorizes the Legislature of Guam to divest the appellate jurisdiction of the District Court under the Act to hear appeals from local Guam courts,...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The State of Michigan has enacted legislation authorizing a system for union representation of local governmental employees. A union and a local government employer are specifically permitted to agree to an “agency shop” arrangement, whereby every employee represented by a union— even though not a union member — must pay to the union, as a condition of employmen...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. In Miller v. California, 413 U. S. 15 (1973), this Court rejected a plea for a uniform national standard as to what *293appeals to the prurient interest and as to what is patently offensive; the Court held, instead, that these essentially were questions of fact to be measured by contemporary standards of the community. Id., at 30-34. The instant case presents th...
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Respondent Westcott was arrested for violating a Massachusetts statute that prohibits nonresidents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from dragging for fish by beam or otter trawl in Vineyard Sound during July, August, and September. 1 After he was found guilty, he pursued his right to de novo review and filed a motion to dismiss the complaint. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court grant...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. These cases, like Teamsters v. United States, ante, p. 324, involve alleged employment discrimination on the part of an employer and unions in the trucking industry. The employer, East Texas Motor Freight System, Inc., is a common carrier that employs city and over-the-road, or “line,” truckdrivers. The company has a “no-transfer” p...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The question in this litigation concerns the constitutional validity of a legislative reapportionment plan devised by a three-judge Federal District Court for Mississippi’s Senate and House of Representatives. In Nos. 76-777 and 76-935, the *409appellants are the Mississippi voters who originally brought this class action in the District Court. They challenge th...
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431 U.S. 434 (1977) TRAINOR, DIRECTOR, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AID, ET AL. v. HERNANDEZ ET UX. No. 75-1407. Supreme Court of United States. Argued January 18, 1977. Decided May 31, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. *435 Paul J. Bargiel, Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents a challenge to Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 4141.29 (D) (1) (a) (1973). That statute, at the times rele *473 vant to this suit, imposed a disqualification for unemployment benefits when the claimant’s unemployment was “due to a labor dispute other than a lockout at any factory . . . owned or operated by the employer by which he i...
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with whom Mr. Justice Brennan joins, dissenting. But for her sex, respondent Carolyn Evans presently would enjoy all of the seniority rights that she seeks through this litigation. Petitioner United Air Lines has denied her those rights pursuant to a policy that perpetuates past discrimination by awarding the choicest jobs to those possessing a *561credential married women were unlawfully prevente...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent Davis became a permanent employee of petitioner Alabama Power Co. on August 16, 1936, and continued to work until March 18, 1943, when he left to enter the military. After serving in the military for 30 months, he resumed his position with Alabama Power, where he worked until he retired on June 1, 1971. Davis received credit under the company ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner Splawn was convicted in 1971 of the sale of two reels of obscene film, a misdemeanor violation of California Penal Code §311.2 (West 1970). After the conviction was affirmed on appeal by the California First District Court of Appeal and the State Supreme Court denied review, this Court granted certiorari, vacated the judgment, and remanded for conside...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Customs officials, acting with “reasonable cause to suspect” a violation of customs laws, opened for inspection incoming international letter-class mail without first obtaining a search warrant. A divided Court of Appeals for the District of Co*608lumbia Circuit held, contrary to every other Court of Appeals which has considered the matter,1 that the Fourth Amen...
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Petitioner Harry Roberts was indicted, tried, and convicted of the first-degree murder of Police Officer Dennis Mclnemey, who at the time of his death was engaged in the performance *634of his lawful duties. As required by a Louisiana statute, petitioner was sentenced to death. La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 14:30 (2) (1974) ,1 On appeal, the Supreme Court of Louisiana affirmed his conviction and sentence....
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delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari to determine whether a pretrial order denying a motion to dismiss an indictment on double jeopardy grounds is a final decision within the meaning of 28 U. S. C. § 1291 1 and thus immediately appealable. If it is a final decision, we must also decide: (a) whether the Double Jeopardy Clause bars the instant prosecution; (b)...
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delivered the opinion of the Court (Parts I, II, III, and V), together with an opinion (Part IV), in which Mr. Justice Stewart, Mr. Justice Marshall, and Mr. Justice Blackmun joined. Under New York Educ. Law § 6811 (8) (McKinney 1972) it is a crime (1) for any person to sell or distribute any contraceptive of any kind to a minor under the age of 16 years ; (2) for anyone other than a licensed phar...
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431 U.S. 720 (1977) ILLINOIS BRICK CO. ET AL. v. ILLINOIS ET AL. No. 76-404. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 23, 1977. Decided June 9, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. *722 Edward H. Hatton argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Lynne E. McNown, Alan L. Metz, Samuel J. Betar, Earl E. Pollack, James P. Morgan, Thoma...
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431 U.S. 767 (1977) WARD v. ILLINOIS. No. 76-415. Supreme Court of United States. Argued April 27, 1977. Decided June 9, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS. *768 J. Steven Beckett argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief was Donald M. Reno, Jr. Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, argued the cause for appellee. With him on the brief were Willia...
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431 U.S. 783 (1977) UNITED STATES v. LOVASCO. No. 75-1844. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 21-22, 1977. Decided June 9, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. *784 John P. Rupp argued the cause for the United States. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Bork, Assistant Attorney General Thornburgh, Deputy Solicitor General Frey, Jerome M...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellees, individual foster parents1 and an organization of foster parents, brought this civil rights class action pursuant to 42 U. S. C. § 1983 in the United States District Court for *819the Southern District of New York, on their own behalf and on behalf of children for whom they have provided homes for a year or more. They sought declaratory and injunctive...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Seven enlisted members of the United States Navy brought this class action in the District Court for the District of Columbia under the Tucker Act, 28 U. S. C. § 1346 (a)(2), alleging that their agreements to extend their enlistments, made at various times from 1968 to 1970, entitled each of them to payment of a re-enlistment bonus. The District Court ordered th...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. New York, by statute, bars certain resident aliens from state financial assistance for higher education. N. Y. Educ. Law § 661 (3) (McKinney Supp. 1976). This litigation presents a constitutional challenge to that statute. I New York provides assistance, primarily in three forms, to students pursuing higher education. The first type is the Regents college schola...
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432 U.S. 23 (1977) LEE v. UNITED STATES. No. 76-5187. Supreme Court of United States. Argued April 25, 1977. Decided June 13, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. *24 Joseph P. Bauer, by appointment of the Court, 430 U. S. 928, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Conrad Kellenberg. Deputy Solicitor General Frey argued the cause fo...
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SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL DECREE For the purpose of identifying with greater particularity parts of the boundary line, as defined by the Supplemental Decree of January 31, 1966, 382 U. S. 448, between the submerged lands of the United States and the submerged lands of the State of California, it is ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that this Court's Supplemental Decree of January 31, 1966, be, and the sa...
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432 U.S. 43 (1977) NATIONAL SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA ET AL. v. VILLAGE OF SKOKIE. No. 76-1786. Supreme Court of United States. Decided June 14, 1977. ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS. PER CURIAM. On April 29, 1977, the Circuit Court of Cook County entered an injunction against petitioners. The injunction prohibited them from performing any of the following act...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari1 in these cases to determine whether the Securities and Exchange Commission, in approving the merger of a closed-end investment company into an affiliate company, reasonably exercised its discretion under the Investment Company Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 789, as amended, 15 U. S. C. § 80a-l et seq. The Commission valued the investment company es...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Section 703 (a)(1) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, 78 Stat. 255, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e-2 (a)(1), makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to discriminate against an employee or a prospective employee on the basis of his or her religion. At the time of the events involved here, a guideline of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the issue as to whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment compels the exclusion, in a state criminal trial, apart from any consideration of reliability, of pretrihl identification evidence obtained by a police procedure that was both suggestive and unnecessary. This Court’s decisions in Stovall v. Denno, 388 U. S. 293 (1967), ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The question in this case is whether the Double Jeopardy-Clause of the Fifth Amendment bars prosecution and punishment for the crime of stealing an automobile following prosecution and punishment for the lesser included offense of operating the same vehicle without the owner’s consent. I On November 29, 1973, the petitioner, Nathaniel Brown, stole a 1965 Chevrol...
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432 U.S. 173 (1977) MANDEL, GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND, ET AL. v. BRADLEY ET AL. No. 76-128. Supreme Court of United States. Argued February 23, 1977. Decided June 16, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND. George A. Nilson, Deputy Attorney General of Maryland, argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and ...
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432 U.S. 183 (1977) JONES v. HILDEBRANT ET AL. No. 76-5416. Supreme Court of United States. Argued April 26, 1977. Decided June 16, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF COLORADO. David K. Rees argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Walter L. Gerash. Wesley H. Doan argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Robert E. Goodwin.[*] PER CURIAM. Petitioner is t...
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432 U.S. 197 (1977) PATTERSON v. NEW YORK. No. 75-1861. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 1, 1977. Decided June 17, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NEW YORK. Victor J. Rubino argued the cause for appellant. With him on the briefs was Betty D. Friedlander. John M. Finnerty argued the cause for appellee. With him on the brief was Alan D. Marrus. *198 MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered...
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432 U.S. 233 (1977) HANKERSON v. NORTH CAROLINA. No. 75-6568. Supreme Court of United States. Argued February 23, 1977. Decided June 17, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA. *234 Lawrence G. Diedrick argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner. Charles M. Hensey, Assistant Attorney General of North Carolina, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Rufus...
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432 U.S. 282 (1977) DOBBERT v. FLORIDA. No. 76-5306. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 28, 1977. Decided June 17, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA. *284 Louis O. Frost, Jr., argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner. Charles W. Musgrove, Assistant Attorney General of Florida, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the briefs was Robert L. Shevin, Attorney ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1973, North Carolina enacted a statute which required, inter alia, all closed containers of apples sold, offered for sale, or shipped into the State to bear “no grade other than the applicable TJ. S. grade or standard.” N. C. Gen. Stat. § 106-189.1 (1973). In an action brought by the Washington State Apple Advertising Commission, a three-ju...
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with whom The Chief Justice joins, dissenting in part. While I agree with Part II of the Court’s opinion, holding that §706 (f)(1), 42 U. S. C. § 2000e-5 (f) (1) (1970 ed., Supp. V), does not impose a limitation on the power of the EEOC to file suit in a federal court, I do not agree with the Court’s conclusion in Part III that the EEOC is not bound by any limitations period at all. The Court’s ac...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Federal Rule Civ. Proc. 24 requires that an application to intervene in federal litigation must be “timely.” In this case a motion to intervene was filed promptly after the final judgment of a District Court, for the purpose of appealing the court’s earlier denial of class action certification. The question presented is whether this motion was “timely” under Rul...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. At issue in this case is the construction of § 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U. S. C. § 1973b (1970 ed. and Supp. V). “The Voting Rights Act was designed by Congress to banish the blight of racial discrimination in voting.” South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383 U. S. 301, 308 (1966). While the Act has had a dramatic effect in increasing the participa...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. This case concerns the validity of 45 CFR § 233.100 (a) (1) (1976),1 a regulation promulgated by the Secretary of *418Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) pursuant to a delegation of rulemaking authority in § 407 (a) of the Social Security Act, 42 U. S. C. § 607 (a).2 The issue is whether the regulation is a proper exercise of the Secretary’s statutory authority...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this case is whether Title XIX of the Social Security Act, as added, 79 Stat. 343, and amended, 42 U. S. C. § 1396 et seq. (1970 ed. and Supp. V), requires States that participate in the Medical Assistance (Medicaid) program to fund the cost of nontherapeutic abortions. I Title XIX establishes the Medicaid program under which participating States ma...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. In Beal v. Doe, ante, p. 438, we hold today that Title XIX of the Social Security Act does not require the funding of nontherapeutic abortions as a condition of participation in the *466joint federal-state Medicaid program established by that statute. In this case, as a result of our decision in Beal, we must decide whether the Constitution requires a participat...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this case concerns the scope of judicial review of the Attorney General’s failure to interpose a timely objection under § 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to a change in the voting laws of a jurisdiction subject to that Act. I The events leading up to this litigation date back to November 11, 1971, when South Carolina enacted Act 932 reapportionin...
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432 U.S. 519 (1977) POELKER, MAYOR OF ST. LOUIS, ET AL. v. DOE. No. 75-442. Supreme Court of United States. Argued January 11, 1977. Decided June 20, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Eugene P. Freeman argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief was Jack L. Koehr. Frank Susman argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.[*] PER CURIAM...
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The motion of appellees for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. Appellees are mothers of illegitimate children who receive welfare benefits from the State of Connecticut under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program administered for the Federal Government by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). They are prosecuting this litigation to challenge the con...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari in this case to decide whether a search warrant is required before federal agents may open a locked footlocker which they have lawfully seized at the time of the arrest of its owners, when there is probable cause to believe the footlocker contains contraband. (1) On May 8, 1973, Amtrak railroad officials in San Diego observed respondents Gr...
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433 U.S. 36 (1977) CONTINENTAL T. V., INC., ET AL. v. GTE SYLVANIA INC. No. 76-15. Supreme Court of the United States. Argued February 28, 1977. Decided June 23, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT *37 Glenn E. Miller argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Lawrence A. Sullivan and Jesse Choper. M. Laurence Popofsky argued the cause f...
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433 U.S. 72 (1977) WAINWRIGHT, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF OFFENDER REHABILITATION OF FLORIDA v. SYKES No. 75-1578. Supreme Court of the United States. Argued March 29, 1977. Decided June 23, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT *73 Charles Corces, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of Florida, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief was Robert L. ...
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concurring in part and dissenting in part. My disagreement with the Court is extremely narrow. The Court has not sanctioned a restraint on discussion between inmates on the relative advantages or disadvantages of belonging to a prisoners’ union. The prohibition of inmate-to-inmate solicitation which the Court upholds is defined as “an invitation to collectively engage in a legitimately prohibited ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case, for the second time this Term, we are required to construe the complex portion of the Internal Revenue Code concerning life insurance companies.1 The issue in this case is the extent to which deferred and uncollected life insurance premiums are includable in “reserves,” “assets,” and “gross premium income,” as those concepts are used in the Life In...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. On April 8, 1975, after more than 12 years of litigation, including two decisions by this Court,1 the Superior Court of the State of Washington for Pierce County entered a judgment against the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. That judgment recited that the court had jurisdiction to regulate the fishing activities of the Tribe both on and off its reservation, and limit...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The controversy in this case concerns the constitutionality of a Delaware statute that allows a court of that State to take jurisdiction of a lawsuit by sequestering any property of the defendant that happens to be located in Delaware. Appellants contend that the sequestration statute as applied in this case violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amen...
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433 U.S. 229 (1977) WOLMAN ET AL. v. WALTER ET AL. No. 76-496. Supreme Court of the United States. Argued April 25, 1977. Decided June 24, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. *232 Joshua J. Kancelbaum argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Nelson G. Karl, Donald M. Robiner, and Joel M. Gora. Thomas V. Martin, Assistant Attorn...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari in this case to consider two questions concerning the remedial powers of federal district courts in school desegregation cases, namely, whether a District Court can, as part of a desegregation decree, order compensatory or remedial educational programs for schoolchildren who have been subjected to past acts of de jure segregation, and wheth...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The petitioner Hazelwood School District covers 78 square miles in the northern part of St. Louis County, Mo. In 1973 the Attorney General brought this lawsuit against Hazelwood and various of its officials, alleging that they were engaged in a “pattern or practice” of employment discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellee Dianne Rawlinson sought employment with the Alabama Board of Corrections as a prison guard, called in Alabama a "correctional counselor.” After her application was rejected, she brought this class suit under Title YII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e et seq. (1970 ed. and Supp. V), and under 42 U. S. C. § 19...
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433 U.S. 406 (1977) DAYTON BOARD OF EDUCATION ET AL. v. BRINKMAN ET AL. No. 76-539. Supreme Court of the United States. Argued April 26, 1977. Decided June 27, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT *407 David C. Greer argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the brief was Leo F. Krebs. Louis R. Lucas argued the cause for respondents. With him on the bri...
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433 U.S. 562 (1977) ZACCHINI v. SCRIPPS-HOWARD BROADCASTING CO. No. 76-577. Supreme Court of the United States. Argued April 25, 1977. Decided June 28, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO *563 John G. Lancione argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner. Ezra K. Bryan argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Don H. Pace and Lawrence V. Lindberg. MR. JUSTICE WHIT...
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433 U.S. 584 (1977) COKER v. GEORGIA No. 75-5444. Supreme Court of the United States. Argued March 28, 1977. Decided June 29, 1977 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA *585 David E. Kendall argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were E. Kontz Bennett, Jr., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Peggy C. Davis, and Anthony G. Amsterdam. *586 B. Dean Grindle, Jr., Assistant Att...
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This school desegregation case involves the School District of Omaha, Neb. The District Court in a comprehensive opinion extensively reviewed the evidence presented by the parties, and recognized that there was considerable racial imbalance in school attendance patterns. Applying a legal standard which placed the burden of proving intentional segre-gative actions on the respondents, and which rega...
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433 U.S. 672 (1977) BRENNAN ET AL. v. ARMSTRONG ET AL. No. 76-809. Supreme Court of the United States. Decided June 29, 1977 ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT PER CURIAM. This school desegregation case involves the school system in the city of Milwaukee, Wis. The District Court here made various findings of segregative acts on the par...
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433 U.S. 676 (1977) FINCH v. UNITED STATES No. 76-1206. Supreme Court of the United States. Decided June 29, 1977 ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT PER CURIAM. In an information filed in the United States District Court for the District of Montana, petitioner was charged with knowingly fishing on a portion of the Big Horn River in Monta...
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433 U.S. 682 (1977) HARRIS v. OKLAHOMA No. 76-5663. Supreme Court of the United States. Decided June 29, 1977. ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF OKLAHOMA PER CURIAM. A clerk in a Tulsa, Okla., grocery store was shot and killed by a companion of petitioner in the course of a robbery of the store by the two men. Petitioner was convicted of felony-murder in Oklah...
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In this appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of California, appellants challenge the constitutionality of the promulgation by appellee of certain rate tariffs applicable to dump truck carriers operating in California. They contend essentially that the tariffs violate their rights to due process and equal protection guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment because appellee issued them on the b...
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The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. General Atomic Co. (GAC) challenges the validity of an injunction issued by a New Mexico state court restraining it from filing and prosecuting actions against United Nuclear Corp. (UNC) in federal court. We reverse because under Donovan v. Dallas, 377 U. S. 408 (1964), it is not within the power of state courts to bar litigants from filing and pro...
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434 U.S. 22 (1977) RINALDI v. UNITED STATES. No. 76-6194. Supreme Court of United States. Decided November 7, 1977. ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. *23 PER CURIAM. Petitioner's participation in a plot to rob safe-deposit boxes of the Doral Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., violated the laws of both the State of Florida and the United...
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delivered the opinion, of the Court. The question presented is whether Congress has the power to require that a dependent child's social security benefits terminate upon marriage even though his spouse is permanently disabled. Answering that question in the negative, the District Court held that 42 U. S. C. §§ 402 (d) (1) (D) and 402 (d) (5) deprive appellee of property without due process of l...
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434 U.S. 77 (1977) COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. KOWALSKI ET UX. No. 76-1095. Supreme Court of United States. Argued October 12, 1977. Decided November 29, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. *78 Stuart A. Smith argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Solicitor General McCree and Acting Assistant Attorney General Baum. Carl B. Co...
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434 U.S. 100 (1977) IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT v. SMITH. No. 76-1291. Supreme Court of United States. Decided December 5, 1977. ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF IDAHO. PER CURIAM. Petitioner challenges a ruling of the Idaho Supreme Court that the denial of unemployment benefits to otherwise eligible persons who attend school during the day violates the Equal Protecti...
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434 U.S. 106 (1977) PENNSYLVANIA v. MIMMS. No. 76-1830. Supreme Court of United States. Decided December 5, 1977. ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA. PER CURIAM. Petitioner Commonwealth seeks review of a judgment of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reversing respondent's conviction for carrying a concealed deadly weapon and a firearm without a license. That c...
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434 U.S. 125 (1977) NEW YORK v. CATHEDRAL ACADEMY. No. 76-616. Supreme Court of United States. Argued October 3, 1977. Decided December 6, 1977. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NEW YORK. *126 Jean M. Coon, Assistant Solicitor General of New York, argued the cause for appellant. With her on the brief were Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General, Ruth Kessler Toch, Solicitor General, and Kenneth C...
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with whom Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall join, concurring in the result and concurring in part. I join Part I of the opinion of the Court affirming the decision of the Court of Appeals that petitioner’s policy denying *147accumulated seniority for job-bidding purposes to female employees returning from pregnancy leave violates Title VII.1 I also concur in the result in Part II, for t...
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The judgment of the Court of Appeals, 528 P. 2d 1208, is vacated and the cause remanded for further consideration in light of General Electric Co. v. Gilbert, 429 U. S. 125 (1976), and Nashville Gas Co. v. Satty, ante, p. 136, and for consideration of possible mootness. ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question of whether a United States District Court may properly direct a telephone company to provide federal law enforcement officials the facilities and technical assistance necessary for the implementation of its order authorizing the use of pen registers1 to investigate offenses which there was probable cause to believe were being comm...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented in this case is whether, under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, retirement of an employee over his objection and prior to reaching age 65 is permissible under the provisions of a bona fide retirement plan established by the employer in 1941 and joined by the employee in 1964. We granted certiorari to resolve a conflict bet...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner was convicted of rape and related offenses. At trial the complaining witness testified on direct examination by the prosecution that she had identified petitioner at a preliminary hearing at which he was not represented by counsel. The State Supreme Court affirmed petitioner's convictions, and the Federal District Court and Court of Appeals denied hab...
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Affirmed on appeal from D. C. D. C. The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Blackmun, and Mr. Justice Powell would note probable jurisdiction and set case for oral argument....
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Appeal from Ct. App. Ohio, Franklin County, dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of certiorari, certiorari denied....
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Appeal from Sup. Ct. Mich, dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for certiorari, certiorari denied....
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Appeal from Sup. Ct. N. J. dismissed for want of substantial federal question....
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Appeal from Ct. App. La., 1st Cir. Probable jurisdiction noted....
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C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Affirmed on appeal from D. C. N. D. Ind....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari granted....
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C. A. 7th Cir. Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and certiorari granted....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. App. Mich. Certiorari denied....
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Sup. Ct. Colo. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 1st Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari dismissed under this Court’s Rule 60....
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Affirmed on appeal from D. C. N. M....
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Appeal from Ct. Sp. App. Md. dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of certiorari, certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. [Certiorari granted, ante, p. 917.] Motion of the Acting Solicitor General to permit Frank H. Easterbrook, Esquire, to present oral argument pro hac vice granted....
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Motion for leave to file petition for writ of mandamus denied....
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied:...
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Sup. Ct. Ky. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. Civ. App. Tex., 11th Sup. Jud. Dist. Certiorari denied....
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Sup. Ct. Pa. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Blackmun would grant certiorari....
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C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice White would grant certiorari....
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Affirmed on appeal from D. C. E. D. N. Y....
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Appeal from D. C. S. D. Ohio. [Probable jurisdiction noted, 429 U. S. 1037.] Motion of National Coalition for Public Education and Religious Liberty for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted....
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Affirmed on appeal from D. C. E. D. Mich. Mr. Justice Stewart, Mr. Justice Blackmun, and Mr. Justice Powell would postpone jurisdiction to a hearing of case on the merits....
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. App. D. C. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Appeal from Ct. App. Cal., 4th App. *942Dist., dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of cer-tiorari, certiorari denied....
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Appeal from D. C. S. D. N. Y. Probable jurisdiction noted....
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C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Sup. Ct. Ohio. Certiorari denied....
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Appeal from D. C. S. C. [Probable jurisdiction noted, 429 U. S. 997.] Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae in support of appellants granted and 15 minutes allotted for that purpose. Appellees also allotted 15 additional minutes for oral argument....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. App. Cal., 2d App. Dist. Certiorari denied....
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430 U.S. 703 (1977) VORCHHEIMER v. SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA ET AL. No. 76-37. Supreme Court of United States. Argued February 22, 1977. Decided April 19, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. Sharon K. Wallis argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs were Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Melvin L. Wulf. Alan H. Gilbert argued the cause for respo...
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 1st Cir. Motion of respondents for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Stewart would grant certiorari....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. Civ. App. Ala. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Motion of Lawrence K. Benson et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Certiorari denied....
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Super. Ct. N. J. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Affirmed on appeal from D. C. M. D. Ala....
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Application for stay of execution and enforcement of paragraphs one through four of order entered by the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina on May 31, 1976, in United States v. Gasque, presented to Mr. Justice Brennan, and by him referred to the Court, denied. Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall would grant application....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Powell would grant certiorari....
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Motion for leave to file petition for writ of mandamus dismissed under this Courtis Rule 60....
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C. A. 1st Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. D. C. Cir. [Certiorari granted, 429 U. S. 1090.] Motion of respondents for leave to file a brief after argument granted. Mr. Justice Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of this motion.*...
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Applicants Michael and Robert Meeropol brought this action in the District Court for the Southern District of New York against respondent Nizer, author of the book The Implosion Conspiracy, and respondents Doubleday & Co. and Fawcett Publications, its publishers, alleging copyright infringement, libel, and invasion of privacy. Summary judgment was granted for respondents on all claims, and applica...
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Applicant Houchins is the Sheriff of Alameda County in the State of California and in that capacity controls access of the press and public to the Alameda County jail. Respondents KQED, Inc., a nonprofit educational television-radio station, and the Alameda and Oakland branches of the NAACP, sued applicant in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in order to obta...
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Stewart would grant certiorari....
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430 U.S. 550 97 S.Ct. 1593 51 L.Ed.2d 630 Gary MANESS, petitioner,v.Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation No. 75-6909 Supreme Court of the United States March 29, 1977 On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. March 29, 1977. PER CURIAM. 1 The writ ...
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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430 U.S. 704 (1977) DARDEN v. FLORIDA. No. 76-5382. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 28, 1977. Decided April 19, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA. Geoffrey M. Kalmus argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner. Richard W. Prospect, Assistant Attorney General of Florida, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Robert L. Shevin, Attorney General. ...
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner was convicted of possessing a firearm in violation of Title YII of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets *564Act of 1968 (Omnibus Crime Control Act), 18 U. S. C. App. §§ 1201-1203. The statute provides, in pertinent part: “Any person, who— “(1) has been convicted by a court of the United States or of a State or any political subdivision, thereof ...
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Motion for leave to file petition for writ of mandamus denied....
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Petition for rehearing and other relief denied....
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C. A. 7th Cir. [Certiorari granted, 429 U. S. 1072.] Motion of Chicago Council of Lawyers for additional time to participate in oral .argument as amicus curiae denied....
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Ct. Crim. App. Okla. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Blackmun would grant certiorari....
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C. A. 7th Cir. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and certiorari granted. Judgment vacated and case remanded for further consideration in light of Abney v. United States, 431 U. S. 651, 664 n. 9 (1977)....
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Appeal from D. C. N. D. Ala. Motion to expedite consideration of the appeal granted....
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. App. Cal., 5th App. Dist. Cer-tiorari denied....
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Appeal from D. C. S. D. Judgment vacated and case remanded for further consideration in light of Beal v. Doe, 432 U. S. 438 (1977), and Maher v. Roe, 432 U. S. 464 (1977). Mr. Justice Brennan, Mr. Justice Marshall, and Mr. Justice Black-mun would affirm the judgment....
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C. A. 7th Cir. [Certio-rari granted, 429 U. S. 1072.] Application for enlargement from custody, presented to Mr. Justice Powell, and by him referred to the Court, denied....
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Disbarment entered. [For earlier order, see 429 U. S. 937.]...
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Disbarment entered. [For earlier order, see 430 U. S. 927.]...
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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431 U. S. 937; 429 U. S. 964; 431 U. S. 209; 431 U. S. 159. 431 U. S. 953; 431 U. S. 171; and 430 U. S. 983. Petitions for rehearing denied....
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delivered the opinion of the Court. Sallye Lipscomb French died 20 days after executing a will leaving most of her estate to certain churches in the District of Columbia. Section 18-302 of the D. C. Code (1973) voids *60 religious devises and bequests made within 30 days of death. 1 Prevented by this statutory provision from carrying out the terms of the will, appel...
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434 U.S. 99 (1977) SHELL OIL CO. v. DARTT. No. 76-678. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 7, 1977. Decided November 29, 1977. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT. Mary T. Matthies argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs was Brynn F. Aurelius. Jefferson G. Greer argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.[*] PER CURIAM. The jud...
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Affirmed on appeal from D. C. W. D. N. C. Mr. Justice Brennan, Mr. Justice Marshall, and Mr. Justice Stevens would note probable jurisdiction and set case for oral argument....
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Appeal from Sup. Ct. Fla. dismissed for want of substantial federal question....
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Appeal from Ct. App. N. Y. Motion of United States Trust Company of New York for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Appeal dismissed for want of substantial federal question....
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D. C. N. D. Ala. [Probable jurisdiction noted, 433 U. S. 906.] Motion of Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari granted and case set for argument with No. 76-1596, immediately supra....
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. App. Ore. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 552 F. 2d 90....
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C. A. 9th Cir. Cer-tiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 546 F. 2d 676....
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Sup. Ct. N. M. Certiorari denied....
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Dist. Ct. App. Fla., 1st Dist. Certiorari denied....
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Sup. Ct. Nev. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. App. Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Cer-tiorari denied....
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C. A. D. C. Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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City Ct. of Baltimore, Md. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. App. Ga. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition....
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Sup. Ct. Ore. Certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Brennan would grant certiorari....
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C. A. 7th Cir. Motion of Direct Mail/Marketing Assn., Inc., for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Certiorari denied....
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Disbarment entered. [For earlier order herein, see 429 U. S. 954.]...
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Appeal from D. C. S. D. N. Y. [Probable jurisdiction noted, 430 U. S. 944.] Motion of Mexican-American Legal Defense & Educational Fund et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted....
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Appeal from D. C. W. D. Wash. [Probable jurisdiction noted, 430 U. S. 905.] Motions of Mid-America Legal Foundation and Maritime Law Association of the United States for leave to file briefs as amici curiae granted....
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C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. App. Ga. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Disbarment entered. [For earlier order herein, see 431 U. S. 962.]...
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Affirmed on appeal from D. C. W. D. Wash....
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Appeal from Ct. App. Ore. dismissed for want of substantial federal question....
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C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Cir. Ct., Coles County, Ill. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 5th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Sup. Ct. P. R. Certiorari denied. Mr. Justice Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition....
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C. A. 8th Cir. Cer-tiorari denied....
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Sup. Ct. Idaho. Certiorari denied....
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Sup. Ct. Mo. Certiorari denied....
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App. Div., Sup. Ct. N. Y., 1st Jud. Dept. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 10th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Sup. Ct. Cal. Certiorari denied....
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Motion for leave to file petition for writ of mandamus denied....
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari granted....
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C. A. 3d Cir. Certiorari denied....
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C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. App. Cal., 4th App. Dist. Certiorari denied....
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Ct. App. Cal., 1st App. Dist. Certiorari denied....
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Applicant Roger Barthuli seeks a stay of the judgment of the Supreme Court of California in the case of Barthuli v. Board of Trustees, 19 Cal. 3d 717, 566 P. 2d 261 (1977), pending his filing of a petition for writ of certiorari to review that judgment. The Supreme Court of California held that the applicant, who had an employment contract with the respondent School District as an associate s...
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