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2013_12-815 | 2,013 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/2013/12-815 | . This case involves two proceedings, one pending in state court, the other in federal court. Each seeks review of an Iowa Utilities Board (IUB or Board) order. And each presents the question whether Windstream Iowa Communications, Inc. (Windstream), a local telecommunications carrier, may impose on Sprint Communicatio... | NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. De... | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
1985_84-701 | 1,985 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1985/84-701 | JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether the Clean Water Act (CWA), 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., together with certain regulations promulgated under its authority by the Army Corps of Engineers, authorizes the Corps to require landowners to obtain permits from the Corps bef... |
The Clean Water Act prohibits any discharge of dredged or fill materials into "navigable waters" -- defined as the "waters of the United States" -- unless authorized by a permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps). Construing the Act to cover all "freshwater wetlands" that are adjacent to other covered wat... | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
1960_44 | 1,960 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1960/44 | MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. The State of Georgia is the only State -- indeed, apparently the only jurisdiction in the common law world -- to retain the common law rule that a person charged with a criminal offense is incompetent to testify under oath in his own behalf at his trial. Georgia i... |
The Georgia Code, § 38-416, makes a person charged with a criminal offense incompetent to testify under oath in his own behalf at his trial; but § 38-415 gives him the right to make an unsworn statement to the jury without subjecting himself to cross-examination. At the trial in a state court in which appellant was ... | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
1983_83-321 | 1,983 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1983/83-321 | JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. These cases require us to decide the extent to which a hearing on a motion to suppress evidence may be closed to the public over the objection of the defendant consistently with the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a public trial. I Acting under court authoriza... |
After court-authorized wiretaps of telephones by Georgia police revealed a large lottery operation, the police executed search warrants at numerous locations, including petitioners' homes. Petitioners and others were then indicted for violating the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and... | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
1987_86-753 | 1,987 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1987/86-753 | CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. This case involves a challenge to a rent control ordinance enacted by the city of San Jose, California, that allows a hearing officer to consider, among other factors, the "hardship to a tenant" when determining whether to approve a rent increase proposed by a... |
Under a San Jose, Cal., rent control ordinance (Ordinance), a landlord may automatically raise the annual rent of a tenant in possession by as much as eight percent, but if a tenant objects to a higher increase, a hearing is required to determine whether the landlord's proposed increase is "reasonable under the circu... | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 |
1964_35 | 1,964 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1964/35 | MR. JUSTICE GOLDBERG delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this case is whether respondent's attempted corporate rehabilitation under the Bankruptcy Act, materially affecting the rights of widespread public investor creditors, may be conducted under Chapter XI of the Bankruptcy Act, 52 Stat. 905, as amended,... |
Respondent company, which was in the trailer rental business, was financed by arranging for the sale of trailers to investors on a lease-back agreement. The trailers were placed by respondent at hundreds of gasoline stations which acted as rental agents. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) blocked the furt... | 8 | 2 | 1 | 16 |
2018_17-1672 | 2,018 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/2018/17-1672 | ", in which Justice Ginsburg, Justice Sotomayor, and Justice Kagan joined. Only a jury, acting on pr(...TRUNCATED) | "NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection (...TRUNCATED) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 18 |
1977_76-1560 | 1,977 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1977/76-1560 | "MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the following quest(...TRUNCATED) | "\n\nSeveral major gypsum board manufacturers and various of their officials were indicted for viola(...TRUNCATED) | 8 | 2 | 0 | 20 |
2015_15-274 | 2,015 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/2015/15-274 | ". In Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey, 505 U. S. 833, 878 (1992) , a plurality of th(...TRUNCATED) | "NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection (...TRUNCATED) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 |
1963_65 | 1,963 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1963/65 | "MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. These cases present questions concerning th(...TRUNCATED) | "\n\nUnder Rule 71A(h) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Commissions were appointed by distri(...TRUNCATED) | 9 | 2 | 1 | 23 |
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