Category: 1975

422 U.S. 749 95 S.Ct. 2457. 45 L.Ed.2d 522 Caspar WEINBERGER, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, et al., Appellants,v.Concetta SALFI et al. No. 74?214. Argued March 19, 1975. Decided June 26, 1975. Syllabus After her husband of less than six months died, appellee widow filed applications for mother’s Social Security insurance benefits for herself […]

422 U.S. 806 95 S.Ct. 2525. 45 L.Ed.2d 562 Anthony Pasquall FARETTA, Petitioner,v.State of CALIFORNIA. No. 73?5772. Argued Nov. 19, 1974. Decided June 30, 1975. Syllabus The Sixth Amendment as made applicable to the States by the Fourteenth guarantees that a defendant in a state criminal trial has an independent constitutional right of self-representation and […]

422 U.S. 289 95 S.Ct. 2336. 45 L.Ed.2d 191 ABERDEEN AND ROCKFISH RAILROAD COMPANY et al., Appellants,v.STUDENTS CHALLENGING REGULATORY AGENCY PROCEDURES (S.C.R.A.P.) et al. UNITED STATES et al., Appellants, v. STUDENTS CHALLENGING REGULATORY AGENCY PROCEDURES (S.C.R.A.P.) et al. Nos. 73?1966, 73?1971. Argued March 26, 1975. Decided June 24, 1975. Syllabus In December 1971, the Nation’s […]

422 U.S. 454 95 S.Ct. 2178 45 L.Ed.2d 319 James R. MUNIZ et al., Petitioners,v.Roy O. HOFFMAN, Director, Region 20, National Labor Relations Board. No. 73?1924. Argued March 24, 1975. Decided June 25, 1975. Syllabus After their request for a jury trial was denied, petitioners, a labor union officer and the union, were adjudged guilty […]

422 U.S. 490 95 S.Ct. 2197. 45 L.Ed.2d 343 Robert WARTH, etc., et al., Petitioners,v.Ira SELDIN et al. No. 73?2024. Argued March 17, 1975. Decided June 25, 1975. Syllabus This action for declaratory and injunctive relief and damages was brought by certain of the petitioners against respondent town of Penfield (a suburb of Rochester, N.Y.), […]

45 L.Ed.2d 435 95 S.Ct. 2501 422 U.S. 617 IVAN ALLEN COMPANY, Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES. No. 74?22. Argued April 14 and 15, 1975. Decided June 26, 1975. Syllabus In determining the applicability of ? 533(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954?which provides a rebuttable presumption that a corporation that has accumulated earnings ‘beyond the reasonable […]

422 U.S. 531 95 S.Ct. 2313 45 L.Ed.2d 374 UNITED STATES, Petitioner,v.James Robert PELTIER. No. 73?2000. Argued Feb. 18, 1975. Decided June 25, 1975. Syllabus This Court’s decision in Almeida-Sanchez v. United States, 413 U.S. 266, 93 S.Ct. 2535, 37 L.Ed.2d 596, which held that a warrantless automobile search, conducted about 25 air miles from […]

45 L.Ed.2d 463 95 S.Ct. 2598 422 U.S. 659 Richard A. GORDON et al., Petitioners,v.NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC., et al. No. 74?304. Argued March 25 and 26, 1975. Decided June 26, 1975. Syllabus Petitioner, individually and on behalf of an asserted class of small investors, filed suit against respondents?the New York Stock Exchange, the […]

422 U.S. 332 95 S.Ct. 2281. 45 L.Ed.2d 223 Cecil HICKS, District Attorney of the County of Orange, State of California, et al., Appellants,v.Vincent MIRANDA, dba Walnut Properties, et al. No. 74?156. Argued March 24, 1975. Decided June 24, 1975. Syllabus After the police, pursuant to four separate warrants, had seized four copies of an […]

422 U.S. 358 95 S.Ct. 2296 45 L.Ed.2d 245 CITY OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, Appellant,v.UNITED STATES et al. No. 74?201. Argued April 23, 1975. Decided June 24, 1975. Syllabus In 1969 a Virginia court approved annexation by the city of Richmond, effective January 1, 1970, of an adjacent area in Chesterfield County, which reduced the proportion […]

422 U.S. 563 95 S.Ct. 2486 45 L.Ed.2d 396 J. B. O’CONNOR, Petitioner,v.Kenneth DONALDSON. No. 74?8. Argued Jan. 15, 1975. Decided June 26, 1975. Syllabus Respondent, who was confined almost 15 years ‘for care, maintenance, and treatment’ as a mental patient in a Florida state hospital, brought this action for damages under 42 U.S.C. ? […]

422 U.S. 590 95 S.Ct. 2254 45 L.Ed.2d 416 Richard BROWN, Petitioner,v.State of ILLINOIS. No. 73?6650. Argued March 18, 1975. Decided June 26, 1975. Syllabus Petitioner, who had been arrested without probable cause and without a warrant, and under circumstances indicating that the arrest was investigatory, made two in-custody inculpatory statements after he had been […]

422 U.S. 225 95 S.Ct. 2160 45 L.Ed.2d 141 UNITED STATES, Petitioner,v.Robert Lee NOBLES. No. 74?634. Argued April 23, 1975. Decided June 23, 1975. Syllabus During respondent’s federal criminal trial, which resulted in a conviction, defense counsel sought to impeach the credibility of key prosecution witnesses by testimony of a defense investigator regarding statements previously […]

422 U.S. 66 95 S.Ct. 2080. 45 L.Ed.2d 26 Stewart S. CORT et al., Petitioners,v.Richard A. ASH, etc. No. 73?1908. Argued March 18, 1975. Decided June 17, 1975. Syllabus Respondent stockholder brought this action seeking damages in favor of petitioner Bethlehem Steel Corp., a Delaware corporation, and injunctive relief because of advertisements in connection with […]

422 U.S. 13 95 S.Ct. 2022 44 L.Ed.2d 652 UNITED STATES, Plaintiff,v.State of LOUISIANA et al. No. 9, Orig. Supreme Court of the United States June 16, 1975 SUPPLEMENTAL DECREE 1 On Court, establishing ‘a baseline along the entire coast of the State of Louisiana from which the extent of the territorial waters under the […]

422 U.S. 891 95 S.Ct. 2585. 45 L.Ed.2d 623 UNITED STATES, Petitioner,v.Luis Antonio ORTIZ. No. 73?2050. Argued Feb. 18, 1975. Decided June 30, 1975. Syllabus* The Fourth Amendment, held to forbid Border Patrol officers, in the absence of consent or probable cause, to search private vehicles at traffic checkpoints removed from the border and its […]

422 U.S. 205 95 S.Ct. 2268 45 L.Ed.2d 125 Richard ERZNOZNIK, etc., Appellant,v.CITY OF JACKSONVILLE. No. 73?1942. Argued Feb. 26, 1975. Decided June 23, 1975. Syllabus A Jacksonville, Fla., ordinance making it a public nuisance and a punishable offense for a drive-in movie theater to exhibit films containing nudity, when the screen is visible from […]

422 U.S. 853 95 S.Ct. 2550. 45 L.Ed.2d 593 Clifford HERRING, Appellant,v.State of NEW YORK. No. 73?6587. Argued Feb. 26, 1975. Decided June 30, 1975. Syllabus A total denial of the opportunity for final summation in a nonjury criminal trial as well as in a jury trial deprives the accused of the basic right to […]

422 U.S. 184 95 S.Ct. 2240 45 L.Ed.2d 109 UNITED STATES, Petitioner,v.State of ALASKA. No. 73?1888. Argued April 16, 1975. Decided June 23, 1975. Rehearing Denied Oct. 6, 1975. See 423 U.S. 885, 96 S.Ct. 159. syllabus Proof held insufficient to establish Cook Inlet as a historic bay, and hence the United States, as against […]

422 U.S. 151 95 S.Ct. 2040 45 L.Ed.2d 84 TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSIC CORPORATION et al., Petitioners,v.George AIKEN. No. 74?452. Argued April 21, 1975. Decided June 17, 1975. Syllabus Petitioners’ copyrighted songs were received on the radio in respondent’s food shop from a local braodcasting station, which was licensed by the American Society of Composers, Authors […]