Category: 1971

403 U.S. 698 91 S.Ct. 2068 29 L.Ed.2d 810 Cassius Marsellus CLAY, Jr. also known as Muhammad Ali, Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES. No. 783. Argued April 19, 1971. Decided June 28, 1971. Chauncey Eskridge, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner. Solicitor Gen. Erwin N. Griswold for respondent. PER CURIAM. 1 The petitioner was convicted for willful refusal to submit […]

403 U.S. 711 91 S.Ct. 2285 29 L.Ed.2d 820 Charles HUNTER et al.v.TENNESSEE. No. 5085. Supreme Court of the United States June 28, 1971* On petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Western Division. PER CURIAM. 1 The motions for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petitions for writs […]

403 U.S. 528 91 S.Ct. 1976 29 L.Ed.2d 647 Joseph McKEIVER and Edward Terry, Appellants,v.State of PENNSYLVANIA. In re Barbara BURRUS et al., Petitioners. Nos. 322, 128. Argued Dec. 9 and 10, 1970. Decided June 21, 1971. Syllabus The requests of appellants in No. 322 for a jury trial were denied, and they were adjudged […]

403 U.S. 672 91 S.Ct. 2091 29 L.Ed.2d 790 Eleanor Taft TILTON et al., Appellants,v.Elliott L. RICHARDSON, Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, et al. No. 153. Argued March 2, 3, 1971. Decided June 28, 1971. Rehearing Denied Oct. 12, 1971. See 92 S.Ct. 25. Syllabus The Higher Education Facilities […]

403 U.S. 388 91 S.Ct. 1999 29 L.Ed.2d 619 Webster BIVENS, Petitioner,v.SIX UNKNOWN NAMED AGENTS OF FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS. No. 301. Argued Jan. 12, 1971. Decided June 21, 1971. Syllabus Petitioner’s complaint alleged that respondent agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, acting under color of federal authority, made a warrantless entry of his […]

403 U.S. 573 91 S.Ct. 2075 29 L.Ed.2d 723 UNITED STATES, Petitioner,v.Roosevelt Hudson HARRIS. No. 30. Argued March 23, 1971. Decided June 28, 1971. Syllabus Respondent was convicted of possessing nontaxpaid liquor in violation of 26 U.S.C. ? 5205(a)(2). The Court of Appeals reversed on the ground that the federal tax investigator’s affidavit supporting the […]

403 U.S. 602 91 S.Ct. 2105 29 L.Ed.2d 745 Alton J. LEMON et al., Appellants,v.David H. KURTZMAN, as Superintendent as Public Instruction of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. John R. EARLEY et al., Appellants, v. John DiCENSO et al. William P. ROBINSON, Jr., Commissioner of Education of the State of Rhode Island, et al., […]

403 U.S. 443 91 S.Ct. 2022 29 L.Ed.2d 564 Edward H. COOLIDGE, Jr., Petitioner,v.NEW HAMPSHIRE. No. 323. Argued Jan. 12, 1971. Decided June 21, 1971. Rehearing Denied Oct. 12, 1971. See 92 S.Ct. 26. Syllabus Police went to petitioner’s home on January 28, 1964, to question him about a murder. In the course of their […]

403 U.S. 365 91 S.Ct. 1848 29 L.Ed.2d 534 John O. GRAHAM, Commissioner, Department of Public Welfare, State of Arizona, Appellant,v.Carmen RICHARDSON, Etc. William P. SAILER et al., Appellants, v. Elsie Mary Jane LEGER and Beryl Jervis. Nos. 609, 727. Argued March 22, 1971. Decided June 14, 1971. Syllabus State statutes, like the Arizona and […]

403 U.S. 431 91 S.Ct. 1970 29 L.Ed.2d 554 Linda JENNESS et al., Appellants,v.Ben W. FORTSON, Secretary of State of Georgia. No. 5714. Argued March 1, 1971. Decided June 21, 1971. Syllabus Georgia law provides that any political organization whose candidate received 20% or more of the vote at the most recent gubernatorial or presidential […]

403 U.S. 29 91 S.Ct. 1811. 29 L.Ed.2d 296 George A. ROSENBLOOM, Petitioner,v.METROMEDIA, INC. No. 66. Argued Dec. 7 and 8, 1970. Decided June 7, 1971. Syllabus Respondent’s radio station, which broadcast news reports every half hour. broadcast news stories of petitioner’s arrest for possession of obscene literature and the police seizure of ‘obscene books,’ […]

29 L.Ed.2d 519 91 S.Ct. 1893 403 U.S. 345 COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Petitioner,v.LINCOLN SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. No. 544. Argued Feb. 23, 1971. Decided June 14, 1971. Syllabus Payment by a state-chartered savings and loan association of the ‘additional premium’ required by ? 404(d) of the National Housing Act to be paid to the […]

403 U.S. 384 91 S.Ct. 1801 29 L.Ed.2d 549 Macio Bernard SIMPSONv.State of FLORIDA. No. 1267. June 14, 1971. PER CURIAM. 1 On November 9, 1966, two armed men entered a store in Jacksonville, Florida, and robbed the manager and a customer. During 1967 petitioner was tried and convicted in the state courts, after a […]

403 U.S. 274 91 S.Ct. 1909 29 L.Ed.2d 473 AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION OF STREET, ELECTRIC RAILWAY AND MOTOR COACH EMPLOYEES OF AMERICA, etc., et al., Petitioners,v.Wilson P. LOCKRIDGE. No. 76. Argued Dec. 15, 1970. Decided June 14, 1971. Rehearing Denied Oct. 12, 1971. See 92 S.Ct. 24. Syllabus Respondent, who had been discharged from employment on […]

403 U.S. 333 91 S.Ct. 1841 29 L.Ed.2d 510 James D. HODGSON, Secretary of Labor, Petitioner,v. LOCAL UNION 6799, UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, et al. No. 655. Argued March 23, 1971. Decided June 14, 1971. Syllabus Failure of labor union member’s election complaint to include an objection to meeting-attendance rule during his pursuit of […]

403 U.S. 212 91 S.Ct. 1778 29 L.Ed.2d 423 Robert JOHNSON, Petitioner,v.State of MISSISSIPPI. No. 5485. Argued April 21, 1971. Decided June 7, 1971. Stephen W. Porter, Washington, D.C., for petitioner. G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for respondent. PER CURIAM. 1 Petitioner, a defendant in a criminal proceeding in the Circuit Court of Grenada […]

403 U.S. 207 91 S.Ct. 1772 29 L.Ed.2d 418 Stella CONNELL, Appellant,v.James M. HIGGINBOTHAM et al. No. 79. Argued Nov. 19, 1970. Decided June 7, 1971. Sanford Jay Rosen, Austin, Tex., for appellant. Stephen Marc Slepin, Tallahassee, Fla., for appellees. PER CURIAM. 1 This is an appeal from an action commenced in the United States […]

403 U.S. 124 91 S.Ct. 1858 29 L.Ed.2d 363 Edgar D. WHITCOMB, Governor of the State of Indiana, Appellant,v.Patrick CHAVIS et al. No. 92. Argued Dec. 8, 1970. Decided June 7, 1971. Syllabus This suit was brought by residents of Marion and Lake Counties, Indiana, challenging state statutes establishing Marion County as a multi-member district […]

403 U.S. 15 91 S.Ct. 1780 29 L.Ed.2d 284 Paul Robert COHEN, Appellant,v.State of CALIFORNIA. No. 299. Argued Feb. 22, 1971. Decided June 7, 1971. Syllabus Appellant was convicted of violating that part of Cal. Penal Code ? 415 which prohibits ‘maliciously and willfully disturb(ing) the peace or quiet of any neighborhood or person * […]