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1958_269 | 1,958 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1958/269 | MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. The Railway Labor Act was amended in 1951 to authorize labor organizations representing employees of carriers to make "checkoff" agreements with the carriers for the deduction from employees' wages of periodic dues, initiation fees and assessments. Section 2 Ele... |
The Railway Labor Act, as amended, authorizes labor organizations representing employees of carriers to make "checkoff" agreements with the carriers for the deduction from employees' wages of periodic dues, initiation fees, and assessments, but it provides that
"no such agreement shall be effective with respect to an... | 7 | 1 | 4 |
1960_681 | 1,960 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1960/681 | MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. The dispute in this case commenced when the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co. and the Erie Railroad Co. filed a joint application for approval by the Interstate Commerce Commission of a proposed merger, the surviving company to be known as the Erie... |
As a condition of its approval of any merger of two or more railroads, § 5(2)(f) of the Interstate Commerce Act provides that the Interstate Commerce Commission "shall require a fair and equitable arrangement to protect the interests of the railroad employees affected," including a requirement that, for at least the ... | 8 | 1 | 5 |
1964_13 | 1,964 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1964/13 | MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. After a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, respondent Jackie Gainey was convicted of violating 26 U.S.C. § 5601(a)(1) (possession, custody or control of a set up, unregistered still and distilling apparatus) and 26 ... |
Respondent was convicted of illegal possession of a still and carrying on the business of a distiller without a bond, in violation of 26 U.S.C. §§ 5601(a)(1) and (4). The trial judge's instructions informed the jury of statutory provisions authorizing it to infer guilt from respondent's unexplained presence at the s... | 1 | 1 | 8 |
1982_81-6756 | 1,982 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1982/81-6756 | JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether a conviction upon which a youth offender was sentenced to probation under the Federal Youth Corrections Act of 1950, 18 U.S.C. § 5005 et seq., was automatically set aside after he served his full term of probation. I In 1971, p... |
In 1971, petitioner, who was then 19 years old, pleaded guilty to the charge of carrying a pistol without a license in violation of a provision of the District of Columbia Code and was placed on probation for two years under § 5010(a) of the Federal Youth Corrections Act (YCA). At the end of the 2-year probationary ... | 2 | 1 | 11 |
1983_82-786 | 1,983 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1983/82-786 | JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the issue whether, and to what extent, the Fifth Amendment privilege against compelled self-incrimination applies to the business records of a sole proprietorship. I Respondent is the owner of several sole proprietorships. In late 1980, a grand jury,... |
During a federal grand jury investigation of corruption in the awarding of county and municipal contracts, subpoenas were served on respondent owner of sole proprietorships demanding production of certain business records of several of his companies. Respondent then filed a motion in Federal District Court seeking t... | 1 | 1 | 12 |
1961_236 | 1,961 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1961/236 | MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. On February 13, 1957, the petitioner paid a visit to his brother, who was then confined in a New York jail. The two conversed in a room at the jail set aside for such visits. Six days later, the petitioner's brother was released from custody by order of one member... |
Petitioner was convicted in a state court of violating a state statute by willfully refusing to answer pertinent questions of a duly constituted legislative committee conducting an authorized legislative investigation, after he had been given immunity from prosecution. In this Court, he contended that his conviction... | 1 | 1 | 16 |
1980_79-6027 | 1,980 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1980/79-6027 | JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners in this case are three persons who were convicted of distributing obscene materials and sentenced to periods of probation on the condition that they make regular installment payments toward the satisfaction of substantial fines. Because they failed to make ... |
Petitioners, former employees of an "adult" movie theater and bookstore, were convicted of distributing obscene materials in violation of a Georgia statute and received fines and jail sentences, but were placed on probation on the condition that they make monthly installment payments toward the satisfaction of the fi... | 2 | 1 | 17 |
1982_82-524 | 1,982 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1982/82-524 | JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 83 Stat. 853, 42 U.S.C. § 4332(2)(C) (NEPA), requires federal agencies to consider the environmental impact of any major federal action. As part of its generic rulemaking proceedings to evaluate the... |
Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to consider the environmental impact of any major federal action. The dispute in these cases concerns the adoption by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of a series of generic rules to evaluate the environmental effects ... | 8 | 1 | 18 |
1960_67 | 1,960 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1960/67 | MR. JUSTICE WARREN announced the judgment of the Court and an opinion in which MR. JUSTICE BLACK, MR. JUSTICE CLARK, and MR. JUSTICE WHITTAKER concur. This case concerns the constitutional validity of the application to appellants of the Pennsylvania criminal statute, enacted in 1959, which proscribes the Sunday retai... |
Appellants are members of the Orthodox Jewish Faith, which requires the closing of their places of business and total abstention from all manner of work from nightfall each Friday until nightfall each Saturday. As merchants engaged in the retail sale of clothing and home furnishings in Philadelphia, they sued to enj... | 3 | 1 | 19 |
1962_464 | 1,962 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1962/464 | MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. The question in this case is whether a person can sue under the Federal Tort Claims Act |
A federal prisoner can sue under the Federal Tort Claims Act to recover damages from the United States for personal injuries sustained during confinement in a federal prison and resulting from the negligence of a government employee. Feres v. United States,, distinguished. .
305 F.2d 253, 285, affirmed.
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1971_71-5172 | 1,971 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/71-5172 | MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. On May 16, 1967, petitioner, on advice of counsel, pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of Hartford County, Connecticut, to charges of narcotics violation and larceny of goods. On June 16, 1967, before being sentenced, he informed the court that he had retained ne... |
Petitioner's claim that his guilty plea was not voluntarily and intelligently made because of an alleged conflict of interest on the part of his counsel has no merit, and that alleged conflict of interest is therefore not a reason for vacating his plea. .
161 Conn. 337, 288 A.2d.58, affirmed.
BRENNAN, J., delivered ... | 1 | 1 | 22 |
1971_69-5001 | 1,971 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/69-5001 | MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. This state murder case, with the death penalty imposed by a jury, comes here from the Supreme Court of Illinois. The grant of certiorari, (1971), was limited to three of four questions presented by the petition. These concern the nondisclosure to the defense of a... |
Moore, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the shotgun slaying of a bartender at a Lansing, Illinois, tavern, claimed that he was denied a fair trial and due process because the State failed to make pretrial disclosure of several items of evidence helpful to the defense, failed to correct false tes... | 4 | 1 | 24 |
1960_329 | 1,960 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1960/329 | MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. Adam Warpouske, an Oregon resident, died in a United States Veterans' Administration Hospital in Oregon without a will or legal heirs, leaving a net estate composed of personal property worth about $13,000. Oregon law provides that such property shall escheat to th... |
An Oregon resident died in a United States Veterans' Administration Hospital in Oregon without a will or legal heirs, leaving a net estate of personal property. He had not entered into a contract with the United States concerning such property, and was mentally incompetent to do so. Oregon claimed such property und... | 2 | 1 | 25 |
1974_73-1346 | 1,974 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1974/73-1346 | MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. The District Court for the District of Columbia preliminarily enjoined appellants, the Secretary of the Air Force and five Air Force officers, |
Appellee, an Air Force master sergeant whose court-martial conviction for violations of Art. 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice involving, inter alia, unauthorized use of classified documents and information, had been reversed for improper admission of certain evidence, and whose retrial was about to commenc... | 2 | 1 | 26 |
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