Category: 1973

413 U.S. 115 93 S.Ct. 2680 37 L.Ed.2d 492 Murray KAPLAN, Petitioner,v.State of CALIFORNIA. No. 71?1422. Argued Oct. 19, 1972. Decided June 21, 1973. Syllabus Petitioner, a proprietor of an ‘adult’ bookstore, was convicted of violating a California obscenity statute by selling a plain-covered unillustrated book containing repetitively descriptive material of an explicitly sexual nature. […]

413 U.S. 123 93 S.Ct. 2665 37 L.Ed.2d 500 UNITED STATES, Appellant,v.12 200-FT. REELS OF SUPER 8MM. FILM et al. No. 70?2. Argued Jan 19, 1972. Reargued Nov. 7, 1972. Decided June 21, 1973. Syllabus Congress, which has broad powers under the Commerce Clause to prohibit importation into this country of contraband, may constitutionally proscribe […]

413 U.S. 139 93 S.Ct. 2674 37 L.Ed.2d 513 UNITED STATES, Appellant,v.George Joseph ORITO. No. 70?69. Argued Jan. 19, 1972. Reargued Nov. 7, 1972. Decided June 21, 1973. Syllabus Appellee was charged with knowingly transporting obscene material by common carrier in interstate commerce, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ? 1462. The District Court granted his […]

412 U.S. 655 93 S.Ct. 2498 37 L.Ed.2d 244 USV PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION, Petitioner,v.Caspar W. WEINBERGER, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, et al. No. 72?666. Argued April 17, 1973. Decided June 18, 1973. Syllabus Petitioner sells drug products containing citrus bioflavonoid, an extract from fruit skins, as a principal active ingredient. In the 1950’s new […]

412 U.S. 580 93 S.Ct. 2389 37 L.Ed.2d 187 UNITED STATES, Petitioner,v.LITTLE LAKE MISERE LAND COMPANY, INC., et al. No. 71?1459. Argued Jan. 15 and 16, 1973. Decided June 18, 1973. Syllabus. Pursuant to the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, the United States acquired land parcels in Louisiana for a wildlife refuge, one by deed in […]

412 U.S. 609 93 S.Ct. 2469 37 L.Ed.2d 207 Caspar W. WEINBERGER, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, et al. Petitioners,v.HYNSON, WESTCOTT AND DUNNING, INCORPORATED. HYNSON, WESTCOTT AND DUNNING, INCORPORATED, Petitioner, v. Caspar W. WEINBERGER, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, et al. Nos. 72?394, 72?414. Argued April 17, 1973. Decided June 18, 1973. Syllabus […]

412 U.S. 640 93 S.Ct. 2495 37 L.Ed.2d 230 CIBA CORPORATION, Petitioner,v.Caspar W. WEINBERGER, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, et al. No. 72?528. Argued April 17, 1973. Decided June 18, 1973. Syllabus Petitioner manufactures a drug called Ritonic Capsules, for which it filed a new drug application (NDA) that became effective in 1959, on […]

412 U.S. 645 93 S.Ct. 2488 37 L.Ed.2d 235 Caspar W. WEINBERGER, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, et al., Petitioners,v.BENTEX PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., et al. No. 72?555. Argued April 17, 1973. Decided June 18, 1973. Syllabus Respondent drug marketers filed suit for a declaratory judgment that their drugs containing pentylenetetrazol are generally recognized as safe […]

412 U.S. 546 93 S.Ct. 2303 37 L.Ed.2d 163 Donald GOLDSTEIN et al., Petitioners,v.State of CALIFORNIA. No. 71?1192. Argued Dec. 13, 1972. Decided June 18, 1973. Syllabus Petitioners, convicted for committing acts of ‘record piracy’ or ‘tape piracy’ in 1970?1971, challenge the California statute proscribing such practices, as violative of the ‘Copyright Clause,’ Art. I, […]

412 U.S. 521 93 S.Ct. 2215. 37 L.Ed.2d 121 Orval C. LOGUE et al., Petitioners,v.UNITED STATES. No. 72?656. Argued April 24, 1973. Decided June 11, 1973. Syllabus Petitioners, claiming that their son’s suicide while he was confined as a federal prisoner in a county jail was proximately caused by the negligence of Government agents and […]

412 U.S. 534 93 S.Ct. 2763 37 L.Ed.2d 132 UNITED STATES of America, plaintiff,v.States of NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA. No. 59, Orig. Supreme Court of the United States June 11, 1973 Solicitor Gen. Erwin N. Griswold for plaintiff. E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., Washington, D. C., for defendant State of Nev. Roderick Walston, for defendant State of […]

412 U.S. 541 93 S.Ct. 2770 37 L.Ed.2d 140 Robert W. FRI, Acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, petitioner,v.SIERRA CLUB et al. No. 72-804. Supreme Court of the United States June 11, 1973 Lawrence G. Wallace, Washington, D.C., for petitioner. Bruce J. Terris, Washington, D.C., for respondents. On writ of certiorari to the United […]

412 U.S. 543 93 S.Ct. 2264 37 L.Ed.2d 137 Sam DEANv.The GADSDEN TIMES PUBLISHING CORPORATION. No. 72?1310. June 11, 1973. PER CURIAM. 1 Petitioner sued respondent, his employer, to recover compensation lost as a result of the employee’s being required to serve as a juror. An Alabama statute provides that an employee excused for jury […]

412 U.S. 441 93 S.Ct. 2230 37 L.Ed.2d 63 John W. VLANDIS, Director of Admissions, the University of Connecticut, Appellant,v.Margaret Marsh KLINE and Patricia Catapano. No. 72?493. Argued March 20, 1973. Decided June 11, 1973. Syllabus Connecticut requires nonresidents enrolled in the state university system to pay tuition and other fees at higher rates than […]

412 U.S. 47 93 S.Ct. 1966 36 L.Ed.2d 736 State of MICHIGAN, Petitioner,v.Leroy PAYNE. No. 71?1005. Argued Feb. 22, 1973. Decided May 21, 1973. Syllabus The ‘prophylactic’ due process limitations established by North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 723?726, 89 S.Ct. 2072, 2079?2081, 23 L.Ed.2d 656, to guard against the possibility of vindictiveness in […]

412 U.S. 470 93 S.Ct. 2208 37 L.Ed.2d 82 Ronald Dale WARDIUS, Petitioner,v.State of OREGON. No. 71?6042. Argued Jan. 10, 1973. Decided June 11, 1973. Syllabus At petitioner’s criminal trial, a witness’ alibi evidence was struck as a sanction for petitioner’s failure to file a notice of alibi in accordance with Oregon’s statutory requirement, and […]

412 U.S. 481 93 S.Ct. 2245 37 L.Ed.2d 92 Raymond MATTZ, Petitioner,v.G. Raymond ARNETT, Etc. No. 71?1182. Argued March 27 and 28, 1973. Decided June 11, 1973. Syllabus Petitioner, a Yurok, or Klamath River, Indian, intervened in a forfeiture proceeding, seeking the return of five gill nets confiscated by a California game warden. He alleged […]

412 U.S. 507 93 S.Ct. 2222 37 L.Ed.2d 109 CITY OF KENOSHA, WISCONSIN et al., Appellants,v.Peter G. BRUNO et al. No. 72?658. Argued April 18, 1973. Decided June 11, 1973. Syllabus Appellees, who apparently because of alleged nude dancing at their retail liquor establishments were denied renewal of their one-year liquor licenses, brought suit under […]

412 U.S. 434 93 S.Ct. 2260 37 L.Ed.2d 56 Clarence Eugene STRUNK, Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES. No. 72?5521. Argued April 24, 1973. Decided June 11, 1973. Syllabus Petitioner was convicted of a federal offense and was sentenced to a term of five years, to run concurrently with a sentence of one to three years that he was […]

412 U.S. 363 93 S.Ct. 2183 37 L.Ed.2d 1 UNITED STATES, Appellant,v.STATE TAX COMMISSION OF MISSISSIPPI et al. No. 72?350. Argued March 19, 1973. Decided June 4, 1973. Syllabus The United States brought this action contesting the validity of appellee Tax Commission’s regulation requiring out-of-state liquor distillers and sumpliers to collect and remit to the […]