Category: 1978

439 U.S. 322 99 S.Ct. 645 58 L.Ed.2d 552 PARKLANE HOSIERY COMPANY, INC., et al., Petitioners,v.Leo M. SHORE. No. 77-1305. Argued Oct. 30, 1978. Decided Jan. 9, 1979. Syllabus Respondent brought this stockholder’s class action in the District Court for damages and other relief against petitioners, a corporation, its officers, directors, and stockholders, who allegedly […]

58 L.Ed.2d 444 99 S.Ct. 476 439 U.S. 180 UNITED CALIFORNIA BANK and Lillian Disney Truyens, Co-Executors of the Estate of Walter E. Disney, Petitioners,v.UNITED STATES. No. 77-1016. Argued Oct. 4, 1978. Decided Dec. 11, 1978. Syllabus The issue in this case involves the computation of the alternative income tax of a decedent’s estate that […]

439 U.S. 96 99 S.Ct. 403 58 L.Ed.2d 361 NEW MOTOR VEHICLE BOARD OF the State of CALIFORNIA et al., Appellants,v.ORRIN W. FOX CO. et al. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MOTOR CAR DEALERS ASSOCIATION et al., Appellants, v. ORRIN W. FOX CO. et al. Nos. 77-837, 77-849. Argued Oct. 3-4, 1978. Decided Dec. 5, 1978. Syllabus The […]

439 U.S. 572 99 S.Ct. 802 59 L.Ed.2d 1 Jess H. HISQUIERDO, Petitioner,v.Angela HISQUIERDO. No. 77-533. Argued Nov. 1, 1978. Decided Jan. 22, 1979. Syllabus The Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 (Act) provides retirement benefits for railroad employees. The benefits are not contractual and can be altered by Congress at any time. Benefits for an […]

439 U.S. 32 99 S.Ct. 368 58 L.Ed.2d 269 DOUGHERTY COUNTY, GEORGIA, BOARD OF EDUCATION et al.,v.WHITE. No. 77-120. Argued Oct. 2-3, 1978. Decided Nov. 28, 1978. Syllabus Shortly after appellee, a Negro employee of the Dougherty County Board of Education, announced his candidacy for the Georgia House of Representatives, the Board adopted a requirement […]

439 U.S. 379 99 S.Ct. 675 58 L.Ed.2d 596 Aldo COLAUTTI, Secretary of Welfare of Pennsylvania, et al., Petitioners,v.John FRANKLIN et al. No. 77-891. Argued Oct. 5, 1978. Decided Jan. 9, 1979. Syllabus Section 5(a) of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act requires every person who performs an abortion to make a determination, “based on his […]

58 L.Ed.2d 785 99 S.Ct. 773 439 U.S. 522 THOR POWER TOOL COMPANY, Petitioner,v.COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. No. 77-920. Argued Nov. 1, 1978. Decided Jan. 16, 1979. Syllabus Inventory accounting for tax purposes is governed by ?? 446 and 471 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Section 446 provides that taxable income is to […]

439 U.S. 60 99 S.Ct. 383 58 L.Ed.2d 292 HOLT CIVIC CLUB et al.v.CITY OF TUSCALOOSA et al. No. 77-515. Argued Oct. 11, 1978. Decided Nov. 28, 1978. Syllabus Appellants, a civic association and certain individual residents of Holt, Ala., a small unincorporated community outside the corporate limits of Tuscaloosa but within three miles thereof, […]

439 U.S. 234 99 S.Ct. 505 58 L.Ed.2d 484 BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, Petitioner,v.FIRST LINCOLNWOOD CORPORATION. No. 77-832. Argued Oct. 11, 1978. Decided Dec. 11, 1978. Syllabus Section 3(a) of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (Act) prohibits any company from acquiring control of a bank without prior approval by […]

439 U.S. 357 99 S.Ct. 664 58 L.Ed.2d 579 Billy DUREN, Petitioner,v.State of MISSOURI. No. 77-6067. Argued Nov. 1, 1978. Decided Jan. 9, 1979. Syllabus Petitioner was convicted of crimes in a Missouri State court notwithstanding his contention that his right to trial by a jury chosen from a fair cross section of his community […]

439 U.S. 438 99 S.Ct. 698 58 L.Ed.2d 717 Simon L. LEIS, Jr., et al.v.Larry FLYNT et al. No. 77-1618. Jan. 15, 1979. Rehearing Denied May 14, 1979. See 441 U.S. 956, 99 S.Ct. 2185. PER CURIAM. 1 Petitioners, the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio, and the Hamilton County […]

439 U.S. 212 99 S.Ct. 492 58 L.Ed.2d 466 CORBITTv.NEW JERSEY. No. 77-5903. Argued Oct. 3, 1978. Decided Dec. 11, 1978. Syllabus Under the New Jersey homicide statutes, life imprisonment is the mandatory punishment for defendants convicted by a jury of first-degree murder, while a term of not more than 30 years is the punishment […]

439 U.S. 259 99 S.Ct. 518 58 L.Ed.2d 503 Robert M. LALLI, Appellant,v.Rosamond LALLI, Administratrix of the Estate of Mario Lalli, et al. No. 77-1115. Argued Oct. 4, 1978. Decided Dec. 11, 1978. Syllabus Appellant, assertedly the illegitimate son of Mario Lalli, who died intestate in New York, filed a petition for a compulsory accounting […]

439 U.S. 299 99 S.Ct. 540 58 L.Ed.2d 534 MARQUETTE NATIONAL BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS, Petitioner,v.FIRST OF OMAHA SERVICE CORPORATION et al. State of MINNESOTA, Petitioner, v. FIRST OF OMAHA SERVICE CORPORATION et al. Nos. 77-1265, 77-1258. Argued Oct. 31, 1978. Decided Dec. 18, 1978. Syllabus The First National Bank of Omaha (Omaha Bank) is a […]

439 U.S. 1014 99 S.Ct. 626 58 L.Ed.2d 687 BROWN TRANSPORT CORP.v.ATCON, INC No. 77-1581 Supreme Court of the United States December 4, 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 WHITE, with whom Mr. Justice BLACKMUN joins, […]

439 U.S. 419 99 S.Ct. 995 58 L.Ed.2d 627 State of ARIZONA, Plaintiff,v.State of CALIFORNIA et al. No. 8, Orig. Supreme Court of the United States January 9, 1979. 1 PER CURIAM and SUPPLEMENTAL DECREE. 2 The United States of America, Intervenor, State of Arizona, Complainant, the California Defendants (State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation […]

439 U.S. 551 99 S.Ct. 790 58 L.Ed.2d 808 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN AND HELPERS OF AMERICA, Petitioner,v.John DANIEL. LOCAL 705, INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN AND HELPERS OF AMERICA, et al., Petitioners, v. John DANIEL. Nos. 77-753, 77-754. Argued Oct. 31, 1978. Decided Jan. 16, 1979. Syllabus A pension plan entered […]

439 U.S. 508 99 S.Ct. 765 58 L.Ed.2d 773 FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Petitioner,v.PENNZOIL PRODUCING COMPANY et al. No. 77-648. Argued Nov. 28, 1978. Decided Jan. 16, 1979. Syllabus Respondent pipeline company purchases for resale in the interstate market natural gas produced from a Louisiana field by respondent oil companies (Producers), whose prices are subject […]

439 U.S. 282 99 S.Ct. 530 58 L.Ed.2d 521 State of MICHIGAN, Petitioner,v.Harold William DORAN. No. 77-1202. Argued Oct. 4, 1978. Decided Dec. 18, 1978. Syllabus After respondent had been arrested in Michigan and charged with receiving and concealing stolen property (a truck driven from Arizona) and Michigan had notified Arizona authorities, Arizona charged respondent […]

439 U.S. 14 99 S.Ct. 235 58 L.Ed.2d 207 Virgil Delano PRESNELL, Jr.v.State of GEORGIA. No. 77-6885. Nov. 6, 1978. PER CURIAM. 1 Petitioner was indicted and found guilty by a jury of three capital offenses?rape, kidnaping with bodily injury, and murder with malice aforethought. Under Georgia law, a jury may impose the death penalty […]