Category: 1976

425 U.S. 80 96 S.Ct. 1330 47 L.Ed.2d 592 John A. GEDERS, Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES. No. 74-5968. Argued Dec. 1, 1975. Decided March 30, 1976. Syllabus The trial court’s order preventing petitioner, the defendant in a federal criminal prosecution, from consulting his counsel “about anything” during a 17-hour overnight recess in the trial between his direct- […]

425 U.S. 820 96 S.Ct. 1961 48 L.Ed.2d 402 Clarence BROWN, Petitioner,v.GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION et al. No. 74-768. Argued March 1, 2, 1976. Decided June 1, 1976. Syllabus Section 717 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as added by ? 11 of the Equal employment Opportunity Act of 1972, proscribes federal employment discrimination and […]

425 U.S. 484 96 S.Ct. 1646 48 L.Ed.2d 113 Charles HAMPTON, Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES. No. 74-5822. Argued Dec. 1, 1975. Decided April 27, 1976. Syllabus As a result of selling to Government agents heroin supplied by a Government informant, petitioner was convicted of a federal offense. The Court of Appeals affirmed, rejecting petitioner’s argument that if […]

425 U.S. 238 96 S.Ct. 1440 47 L.Ed.2d 708 Eugene R. KELLEY, Commissioner of the Suffolk County Police Department, Petitioner,v.Edward JOHNSON, etc. No. 74-1269. Argued Dec. 8, 1975. Decided April 5, 1976. Syllabus A county regulation limiting the length of county policemen’s hair Held not to violate any right guaranteed respondent policeman by the Fourteenth […]

425 U.S. 649 96 S.Ct. 1793 48 L.Ed.2d 274 The NORTHERN CHEYENNE TRIBE, Petitioner,v.William HOLLOWBREAST et al. No. 75-145. Argued March 29, 1976. Decided May 19, 1976. Syllabus Section 3 of the Northern Cheyenne Allotment Act of 1926 (Act) reserves coal and other mineral deposits underlying lands on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation for the Tribe’s […]

425 U.S. 662 96 S.Ct. 1806 48 L.Ed.2d 284 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE et al., Petitioners,v.FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE et al. Nos. 74-1608, 74-1619. Argued Feb. 25, 1976. Decided May 19, 1976. Syllabus The National Association for the Advancement […]

425 U.S. 807 96 S.Ct. 1971 48 L.Ed.2d 390 UNITED STATES, Petitioner,v.Joseph V. ORLEANS et al. No. 75-328. Argued March 22, 1976. Decided June 1, 1976. Syllabus Under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (EOA) the Federal Government, acting through an agency (at the relevant time herein the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)), furnishes financial […]

425 U.S. 273 96 S.Ct. 1532 47 L.Ed.2d 784 Bernard A. SAKRAIDA, Petitioner,v.AG PRO, INC. No. 75-110. Argued March 3, 1976. Decided April 20, 1976. Rehearing Denied June 21, 1976. See 426 U.S. 955, 96 S.Ct. 3182. Syllabus Respondent’s patent covering a water flush system to remove cow manure from the floor of a dairy […]

48 L.Ed.2d 1 96 S.Ct. 1612 425 U.S. 341 Alvin A. BECKWITH, Jr., Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES. No. 74-1243. Argued Dec. 1, 1975. Decided April 21, 1976. Syllabus Statements made by petitioner taxpayer to Internal Revenue agents during the course of a noncustodial interview in a criminal tax investigation Held admissible against him in the ensuing criminal […]

425 U.S. 738 96 S.Ct. 1848 48 L.Ed.2d 338 HOSPITAL BUILDING COMPANY, Petitioner,v.TRUSTEES OF the REX HOSPITAL et al. No. 74-1452 Argued Feb. 25, 1976. Decided May 24, 1976. Syllabus Petitioner corporation, which operates a 49-bed proprietary hospital (Mary Elizabeth) in Raleigh, N.C., brought this antitrust action alleging that respondents, a private, tax-exempt hospital (Rex) […]

425 U.S. 219 96 S.Ct. 1393 47 L.Ed.2d 692 C. Marshall DANN, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Petitioner,v.Thomas R. JOHNSTON. No. 74-1033. Argued Dec. 9, 1975. Decided March 31, 1976. Syllabus Respondent’s “machine system for automatic record-keeping of bank checks and deposits,” under which checks and deposits are customer labeled with code categories which are […]

425 U.S. 637 96 S.Ct. 1800 48 L.Ed.2d 263 AMERICAN MOTORISTS INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant,v.Virgil B. STARNES. No. 74-1481. Argued Feb. 23, 1976. Decided May 19, 1976. Syllabus Though Texas’ general venue statute provides that no inhabitant of the State shall be sued outside the county of his domicile, an exception where a Texas corporation is […]

425 U.S. 917 96 S.Ct. 1519 47 L.Ed.2d 768 Frank R. SCOTT et al.v.UNITED STATES. No. 75-5688. Supreme Court of the United States April 5, 1976 On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Mr. […]

425 U.S. 231 96 S.Ct. 1399 47 L.Ed.2d 701 Marcel YOUAKIM et al., Appellants,v.Jerome MILLER, Individually and as Director of the Department of Children and Family Services, et al. No. 73-6935. March 31, 1976. Patrick A. Keenan, DePaul Law Clinic, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants. William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill. (Paul J. Bargiel, Asst. […]

425 U.S. 794 96 S.Ct. 1845 48 L.Ed.2d 376 State of ARIZONAv.State of NEW MEXICO. No. 70, Orig. May 24, 1976. PER CURIAM. 1 The State of Arizona, as a consumer, and its citizens, as consumers, purchase substantial amounts of electrical energy generated in New Mexico by three Arizona utilities operating generating facilities there. Two […]

425 U.S. 262 96 S.Ct. 1527 47 L.Ed.2d 774 Ted BUTLER and Emil Petersv.Richard C. DEXTER. No. 75-623. April 19, 1976. PER CURIAM. 1 This is an appeal under 28 U.S.C. ? 1253 from an order of a three-judge District Court enjoining the appellants from prosecuting the appellee on the felony charge that his motion […]

425 U.S. 268 96 S.Ct. 1530 47 L.Ed.2d 780 DIAMOND NATIONAL CORPORATION et al.v.STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION, an Agency of the State of California. No. 75-1038. April 19, 1976. Rehearing Denied May 24, 1976. See 425 U.S. 1000, 96 S.Ct. 2218. PER CURIAM. 1 The judgment is reversed. We are not bound by the California […]

425 U.S. 675 96 S.Ct. 1814 48 L.Ed.2d 295 Peggy J. CONNOR et al., Petitioners,v.J. P. COLEMAN, United States Circuit Judge, et al. No. 75-1184. May 19, 1976. PER CURIAM. 1 This case is here on movants’ motion, supported by the United States, for leave to file a petition for writ of mandamus. The motion […]

425 U.S. 73 96 S.Ct. 1208 47 L.Ed.2d 587 Hugh L. CAREY, Governor of the State of New York, et al., Appellants,v.Bert Randolph SUGAR and Wrestling Revue, Inc. CURTIS CIRCULATION COMPANY and Continental Casualty Company, Appellants, v. Bert Randolph SUGAR and Wrestling Revue, Inc. Nos. 74-858, 74-859. March 24, 1976. PER CURIAM. 1 This is […]

425 U.S. 963 96 S.Ct. 1749 48 L.Ed.2d 209 Joel Anthony LILES and Ralph Alexander Bremnerv.State of OREGON. No. 75-983. Supreme Court of the United States May 3, 1976 On petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of oregon. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Mr. Justice STEVENS, concurring […]