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1990_89-7272 | 1,990 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1990/89-7272 | JUSTICE SCALIA announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Part IV, and an opinion with respect to Parts I, II, and III, in which THE CHIEF JUSTICE joins. Petitioner was convicted of possessing 672 grams of cocaine and sentenced to a mandatory term of life in prison withou... |
Petitioner Harmelin was convicted under Michigan law of possessing more than 650 grams of cocaine and sentenced to a mandatory term of life in prison without possibility of parole. The State Court of Appeals affirmed, rejecting his argument that the sentence was "cruel and unusual" within the meaning of the Eighth A... | 1 | 1 | 2,016 |
1960_155 | 1,960 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1960/155 | MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court. The State of Michigan levies "on the privilege of ownership" a 5 1/2-mill tax per dollar on the value of each common share of stock in national banks located in the State. It requires federal and state savings and loan associations in the State to pay, in addition ... |
R.S. § 5219 permits States to tax the shares of national banks, but not "at a greater rate than . . . other moneyed capital . . . coming into competition with the business of national banks." Michigan taxes the shareholders of national banks at a higher rate on the value of their shares of stock than it taxes the sh... | 10 | 1 | 1,912 |
1976_75-1707 | 1,976 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1976/75-1707 | MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN 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 relevant to this suit, imposed a disqualification for unemployment benefits when the claimant's unemployment was "due to a labor dispute other than a locko... |
Appellee, an employee of United States Steel Corporation (USS) at a plant in Ohio, was furloughed when the plant was shut down because of a reduction in fuel supply resulting from a nationwide strike of workers at USS's coal mines. Appellee applied to appellant Ohio Bureau of Employment Services for unemployment ben... | 2 | 1 | 2,899 |
1955_530 | 1,955 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1955/530 | MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court. This case, as stated in the brief for the United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, presents the question whether or not a State may enjoin, through its labor statute, the Wisconsin Employment Peace Act, St.1953, § 111.01 et seq., un... |
An employer which was subject to the National Labor Relations Act filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Board charging appellant union and others with committing unfair labor practices within the meaning of the Wisconsin Employment Peace Act, which practices were also unfair labor practices under ... | 10 | 1 | 2,111 |
1976_75-1221 | 1,976 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1976/75-1221 | MR. JUSTICE POWELL 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 betw... |
Under § 801(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, an insurance company is considered a life insurance company for federal tax purposes if its life insurance reserves constitute more than 50% of its "total reserves," as that term is defined in § 801(c). Qualifying companies are accorded preferential tax treatment.... | 12 | 1 | 2,037 |
1974_73-1119 | 1,974 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1974/73-1119 | PER CURIAM. The State of Alabama brought suit against appellant MTM in state court under the Alabama nuisance law, Ala.Code, Tit. 7, §§ 1081-1108 (1958), seeking to enjoin the continued operation of a nuisance by MTM. It alleged that, because of convictions for violations of local obscenity laws by the Pussycat Adult... |
This Court has no jurisdiction over an appeal under 2 U.S.C. § 1253 from a three-judge District Court's order denying injunctive relief against enforcement of a state court temporary injunction under the Alabama nuisance statute closing appellant's theater, where the three-judge court did not reach the merits of appe... | 9 | 1 | 1,195 |
1972_71-1698 | 1,972 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1972/71-1698 | "MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. Chapter 75, subchapter A, of the Internal (...TRUNCATED) | "\n\nRespondent was convicted of violating 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1), which makes it a felony when one \"(...TRUNCATED) | 1 | 1 | 1,035 |
1987_86-772 | 1,987 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1987/86-772 | "JUSTICE O'CONNOR announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which THE CHIEF J(...TRUNCATED) | "\n\nTwo years after respondent, a management-level employee in one of petitioner city's agencies, s(...TRUNCATED) | 2 | 1 | 628 |
1984_84-351 | 1,984 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1984/84-351 | "JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether States a(...TRUNCATED) | "\n\nRespondent, who suffers from diabetes and has no sight in one eye, brought an action in Federal(...TRUNCATED) | 10 | 1 | 701 |
1962_392 | 1,962 | https://www.oyez.org/cases/1962/392 | "Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE STEWART, announced by MR. JUSTICE WHITE. This case comes to us (...TRUNCATED) | "\n\nOne of the appellants owns a newspaper, and the other a radio station, in New Mexico close to t(...TRUNCATED) | 10 | 1 | 511 |
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