438 U.S. 726 98 S.Ct. 3026 57 L.Ed.2d 1073 FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Petitioner,v.PACIFICA FOUNDATION. No. 77-528. Argued April 18, 19, 1978. Decided July 3, 1978. Rehearing Denied Oct. 2, 1978. See 439 U.S. 883, 99 S.Ct. 227. Syllabus A radio station of respondent Pacifica Foundation (hereinafter respondent) made an afternoon broadcast of a satiric monologue, […]
Category: 1978
438 U.S. 781
438 U.S. 781 98 S.Ct. 3057 57 L.Ed.2d 1114 State of ALABAMA et al.v.Jerry Lee PUGH et al. No. 77-1107. July 3, 1978. PER CURIAM. 1 Respondents, inmates or forme inmates of the Alabama prison system, sued petitioners, who include the State of Alabama and the Alabama Board of Corrections as well as a number […]
438 U.S. 906
438 U.S. 906 98 S.Ct. 3125 57 L.Ed.2d 1149 Bobby L. CARGALv.State of GEORGIA No. 77-1426 Supreme Court of the United States June 26, 1978 On petition for writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Mr. Justice BRENNAN, with whom Mr. Justice STEWART […]
438 U.S. 645
438 U.S. 645 98 S.Ct. 2985 57 L.Ed.2d 1018 State of CALIFORNIA et al., Petitioners,v.UNITED STATES. No. 77-285. Argued March 28, 1978. Decided July 3, 1978. Syllabus The United States Bureau of Reclamation applied to the California State Water Resources Control Board for a permit to appropriate water that would be impounded by the New […]
438 U.S. 696
438 U.S. 696 98 S.Ct. 3012 57 L.Ed.2d 1052 UNITED STATES, Petitioner,v.State of NEW MEXICO. No. 77-510. Argued April 24, 25, 1978. Decided July 3, 1978. Syllabus The United States, in setting aside the Gila National Forest from other public lands, held to have reserved the use of water out of the Rio Mimbres only […]
438 U.S. 905
438 U.S. 905 98 S.Ct. 3124 57 L.Ed.2d 1148 Charles David CARVERv.State of FLORIDA No. 77-1146 Supreme Court of the United States June 26, 1978 On petition for writ of certiorari to the District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. Mr. Justice BRENNAN, with whom […]
438 U.S. 59
438 U.S. 59 98 S.Ct. 2620 57 L.Ed.2d 595 DUKE POWER COMPANY, Appellant,v.CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY GROUP, INC., et al. UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION et al., Appellants, v. CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY GROUP, INC., et al. Nos. 77-262, 77-375. Argued March 20, 1978. Decided June 26, 1978. Syllabus The Price-Anderson Act (Act), having the dual purpose […]
438 U.S. 637
438 U.S. 637 98 S.Ct. 2977 57 L.Ed.2d 1010 Willie Lee BELL, Petitioner,v.State of OHIO. No. 76-6513. Argued Jan. 17, 1978. Decided July 3, 1978. Syllabus Petitioner, whose conviction of aggravated murder with a specification that it occurred during a kidnaping and death sentence were affirmed by the Ohio Supreme Court, contends that the Ohio […]
438 U.S. 531
57 L.Ed.2d 932 98 S.Ct. 2923 438 U.S. 531 ST. PAUL FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Petitioners,v.David M. BARRY et al. No. 77-240. Argued March 27, 1978. Decided June 29, 1978. Syllabus Respondents, licensed physicians practicing in Rhode Island and their patients, brought a class action against petitioners, four insurance companies writing medical […]
Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586 (1978)
Issues: Cruel & Unusual Punishment Clause, Death Penalty, Eighth Amendment
438 U.S. 586 98 S.Ct. 2954 57 L.Ed.2d 973 Sandra LOCKETT, Petitioner, v. State of OHIO. No. 76-6997. Argued Jan. 17, 1978. Decided July 3, 1978. Syllabus The Ohio death penalty statute provides that once a defendant is found guilty of aggravated murder with at least one of seven specified aggravating circumstances, the death penalty […]
438 U.S. 478
438 U.S. 478 98 S.Ct. 2894 57 L.Ed.2d 895 Earl L. BUTZ et al., Petitioners,v.Arthur N. ECONOMOU et al. No. 76-709. Argued Nov. 7, 1977. Decided June 29, 1978. Syllabus After an unsuccessful Department of Agriculture proceeding to revoke or suspend the registration of respondent’s commodity futures commission company, respondent filed an action for damages […]
438 U.S. 567
438 U.S. 567 98 S.Ct. 2943 57 L.Ed.2d 957 FURNCO CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, Petitioner,v.William WATERS et al. No. 77-369. Argued April 17, 1978. Decided June 29, 1978. Syllabus Petitioner corporation specializes in relining blast furnaces with “firebrick.” It maintains no permanent force of bricklayers but delegates to the superintendent of a particular job the task of […]
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
Issues: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights
438 U.S. 265 98 S.Ct. 2733 57 L.Ed.2d 750 REGENTS OF the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Petitioner, v. Allan BAKKE. No. 76-811. Argued Oct. 12, 1977. Decided June 28, 1978. Counsel: Archibald Cox, Cambridge, Mass., for petitioner. Sol. Gen. Wade H. McCree, Jr., Washington, D. C., for United States, as amicus curiae, by special leave of […]
438 U.S. 422
57 L.Ed.2d 854 98 S.Ct. 2864 438 U.S. 422 UNITED STATES, Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY et al. No. 76-1560. Argued March 1, 1978. Decided June 29, 1978. Syllabus Several major gypsum board manufacturers and various of their officials were indicted for violations of ? 1 of the Sherman Act by allegedly engaging in a price-fixing […]
438 U.S. 41
438 U.S. 41 98 S.Ct. 2610 57 L.Ed.2d 582 UNITED STATES, Petitioner,v.Ted R. GRAYSON. No. 76-1572. Argued Feb. 22, 1978. Decided June 26, 1978. Syllabus A sentencing judge, in fixing the sentence of a defendant within statutory limits, may consider the defendant’s false testimony observed by the judge during the trial. Pp. 45-55. (a) A […]
438 U.S. 190
438 U.S. 190 98 S.Ct. 2692 57 L.Ed.2d 693 H. W. BERRY et al.v.J. D. DOLES, etc., et al. No. 76-1690. June 26, 1978. PER CURIAM. 1 This appeal presents a challenge to the scope of the remedy allowed by a three-judge District Court for the Middle District of Georgia for failure of appellees to […]
438 U.S. 204
438 U.S. 204 98 S.Ct. 2699 57 L.Ed.2d 705 William SWISHER et al., Appellants,v.Donald BRADY et al. No. 77-653. Argued March 29, 1978. Decided June 28, 1978. Syllabus Appellee minors brought a class action under 42 U.S.C. ? 1983 seeking, on the basis of the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment as applied to […]
438 U.S. 234
438 U.S. 234 98 S.Ct. 2716 57 L.Ed.2d 727 ALLIED STRUCTURAL STEEL COMPANY, Appellant,v.Warren SPANNAUS et al. No. 77-747. Argued April 25, 1978. Decided June 28, 1978. Rehearing Denied Oct. 2, 1978. See 439 U.S. 886, 99 S.Ct. 233. Syllabus Appellant, an Illinois corporation, maintained an office in Minnesota with 30 employees. Under appellant’s pension […]
438 U.S. 104
438 U.S. 104 98 S.Ct. 2646 57 L.Ed.2d 631 PENN CENTRAL TRANSPORTATION COMPANY et al., Appellants,v.CITY OF NEW YORK et al. No. 77-444. Argued April 17, 1978. Decided June 26, 1978. Rehearing Denied Oct. 2, 1978. See 439 U.S. 883, 99 S.Ct. 226. Syllabus Under New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Law (Landmarks Law), which was […]
438 U.S. 154
438 U.S. 154 98 S.Ct. 2674 57 L.Ed.2d 667 Jerome FRANKS, Petitioner,v.State of DELAWARE. No. 77-5176. Argued Feb. 27, 1978. Decided June 26, 1978. Syllabus Prior to petitioner’s Delaware state trial on rape and related charges and in connection with his motion to suppress on Fourth Amendment grounds items of clothing and a knife found […]