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1957_19 | 1,957 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1957/19 | MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. In this, the third of the denationalization cases decided today, issues concerning Section 401(c) of the Nationality Act of 1940 are presented. That statute provides: "A person who is a national of the United States, whether by birth or naturalization, shall ... |
Petitioner was a native-born citizen of the United States and he was considered by Japan to be a citizen of that country because his parents were Japanese citizens. In 1939, he went to Japan, intending to stay between two and five years visiting and studying. In 1941, he was conscripted into the Japanese Army, and ... | 2 | 2 | 0 |
1957_122 | 1,957 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1957/122 | MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court. These four cases present issues of basic importance to the federal reclamation laws. The Supreme Court of California has refused to confirm certain contracts entered into between two state irrigation districts and a water agency on the one hand, and the United State... |
In these cases involving two federal reclamation projects in California, the Supreme Court of California refused to confirm certain contracts entered into between the United States, on the one hand, and two state irrigation districts and a state water agency, on the other hand, because it found them invalid on severa... | 4 | 2 | 1 |
1981_81-5152 | 1,981 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1981/81-5152 | JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the narrow question whether petitioner's confession should have been suppressed as the fruit of an illegal arrest. The Supreme Court of Alabama held that the evidence was properly admitted. Because the decision below is inconsistent with our decisi... |
Petitioner was arrested on a grocery store robbery charge without a warrant or probable cause, based on an uncorroborated informant's tip, and was taken to the police station, where he was given Miranda warnings, fingerprinted, questioned, and placed in a lineup. After being told that his fingerprints matched those ... | 1 | 2 | 2 |
1981_80-1924 | 1,981 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1981/80-1924 | JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. Section 106 of Pub.L. 92-129, 85 Stat. 355, note following 5 U.S.C. § 7201 (1976 ed., Supp. IV), prohibits employment discrimination against United States citizens on military bases overseas unless permitted by "treaty." The question in this case is whether "treaty"... |
In 1968, the President entered into an agreement with the Republic of the Philippines providing for the preferential employment of Filipino citizens at United States military bases in the Philippines. In 1971, Congress enacted § 106 of Pub.L. 92-129, which prohibits employment discrimination against United States ci... | 2 | 2 | 3 |
1986_85-701 | 1,986 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1986/85-701 | JUSTICE BRENNAN announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, III-B, and III-C, and an opinion with respect to Part III-A, in which JUSTICE MARSHALL, JUSTICE POWELL, and JUSTICE SCALIA join. The questions for decision here arise under § 316 of the Federal Electi... |
Section 316 of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) prohibits corporations from using treasury funds to make an expenditure "in connection with" any federal election, and requires that any expenditure for such purpose be financed by voluntary contributions to a separate segregated fund. Appellee is a nonprofit, ... | 3 | 2 | 6 |
1973_72-1195 | 1,973 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1973/72-1195 | MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. This case involves an aspect of the relationship between a statute of limitations and the provisions of Fed.Rule Civ.Proc. 23 regulating class actions in the federal courts. While the question presented is a limited one, the details of the complex proceedings, ori... |
Eleven days short of a year after a final consent judgment had been entered against petitioners in civil actions by the Government to restrain federal antitrust violations (which actions had been filed almost four years before entry of that judgment), the State of Utah commenced a Sherman Act treble damages class act... | 9 | 2 | 7 |
1986_85-782 | 1,986 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1986/85-782 | JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. Since 1980, the Immigration and Nationality Act has provided two methods through which an otherwise deportable alien who claims that he will be persecuted if deported can seek relief. Section 243(h) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1253(h), requires the Attorney General to with... |
Section 243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (Act) requires that the Attorney General withhold deportation of an alien who demonstrates that his "life or freedom would be threatened" thereby on account of specified factors. The above-quoted phrase requires a showing that "it is more likely than not that the... | 2 | 2 | 9 |
1982_81-920 | 1,982 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1982/81-920 | CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari to consider whether the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, by authorizing a foreign plaintiff to sue a foreign state in a United States district court on a nonfederal cause of action, violates Article III of the Constitution. I On Apr... |
A contract between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and petitioner Dutch corporation for the purchase of cement by Nigeria provided that Nigeria was to establish a confirmed letter of credit for the purchase price. Subsequently, petitioner sued respondent bank, an instrumentality of Nigeria, in Federal District Court... | 9 | 2 | 10 |
1974_73-1309 | 1,974 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1974/73-1309 | "MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the Opinion of the Court. An advertisement carried in appellant's ne(...TRUNCATED) | "\n\nAppellant, the managing editor of a weekly newspaper published in Virginia, as the result of pu(...TRUNCATED) | 3 | 2 | 13 |
1959_46 | 1,959 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1959/46 | "MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. This litigation has been long and drawn-out(...TRUNCATED) | "\n\nThe National Labor Relations Board petitioned the Court of Appeals to adjudge respondents in ci(...TRUNCATED) | 8 | 2 | 14 |
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