Category: 1983

463 U.S. 646 463 U.S. 646 103 S.Ct. 3255 77 L.Ed.2d 911 Raymond L. DIRKS, Petitionerv.SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. No. 82-276. Argued March 21, 1983. Decided July 1, 1983. Syllabus While serving as an officer of a broker-dealer, petitioner, who specialized in providing investment analysis of insurance company securities to institutional investors, received information from […]

463 U.S. 713 463 U.S. 713 103 S.Ct. 3291 77 L.Ed.2d 961 Baxter RICE, Individually and as Director of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control of California, Petitionerv.Eva REHNER. No. 82-401. Argued March 21, 1983. Decided July 1, 1983. Syllabus Respondent is a federally licensed Indian trader who operates a general store on an Indian […]

463 U.S. 582 463 U.S. 582 103 S.Ct. 3221 77 L.Ed.2d 866 GUARDIANS ASSOCIATION, etc., et al., Petitionersv.CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION OF the CITY OF NEW YORK et al. No. 81-431. Argued Nov. 1, 1982. Decided July 1, 1983. Syllabus Petitioner black and Hispanic police officers were appointed to the New York City Police Department upon […]

463 U.S. 60 463 U.S. 60 103 S.Ct. 2875 77 L.Ed.2d 469 William F. BOLGER, et al., Appellantsv.YOUNGS DRUG PRODUCTS CORP. No. 81-1590. Argued Jan. 12, 1983. Decided June 24, 1983. Syllabus Title 39 U.S.C. § 3001(e)(2) prohibits the mailing of unsolicited advertisements for contraceptives. When appellee manufacturer of contraceptives proposed to mail to the […]

463 U.S. 491 463 U.S. 491 103 S.Ct. 3172 77 L.Ed.2d 798 BELKNAP, INC., Petitionerv.Duwaine E. HALE et al. No. 81-1966. Argued Jan. 11, 1983. Decided June 30, 1983. Syllabus When negotiations for a new collective-bargaining agreement between petitioner employer and the union representing certain of its employees reached an impasse, some of the employees […]

463 U.S. 545 463 U.S. 545 103 S.Ct. 3201 77 L.Ed.2d 837 ARIZONA et al.v.SAN CARLOS APACHE TRIBE OF ARIZONA et al. No. 81-2147. Argued March 23, 1983. Decided July 1, 1983.* Syllabus In Colorado River Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800, 96 S.Ct. 1236, 47 L.Ed.2d 483, it was held that (1) […]

463 U.S. 418 77 L.Ed.2d 743 103 S.Ct. 3133 463 U.S. 418 UNITED STATES, Petitionerv.SELLS ENGINEERING, INC., et al. No. 81-1032. Argued March 2, 1983. Decided June 30, 1983. Syllabus After respondents, a company having contracts with the Navy and company officials, were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to defraud the United […]

463 U.S. 354 463 U.S. 354 103 S.Ct. 3043 77 L.Ed.2d 694 Michael JONES, Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES. No. 81-5195. Argued Nov. 2, 1982. Decided June 29, 1983. Syllabus Under the District of Columbia Code, a criminal defendant may be acquitted by reason of insanity if his insanity is affirmatively established by a preponderance of the evidence. […]

463 U.S. 388 463 U.S. 388 103 S.Ct. 3062 77 L.Ed.2d 721 Van D. MUELLER and June Noyes, Petitioners,v.Clyde E. ALLEN, Jr., et al. No. 82-195. Argued April 18, 1983. Decided June 29, 1983. Syllabus A Minnesota statute (§ 290.09(22)) allows state taxpayers, in computing their state income tax, to deduct expenses incurred in providing […]

463 U.S. 476 463 U.S. 476 103 S.Ct. 3164 77 L.Ed.2d 785 UNITED STATES, Petitioner,v.James E. BAGGOT. No. 81-1938. Argued March 2, 1983. Decided June 30, 1983. Syllabus Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e)(3)(C)(i) permits disclosure otherwise prohibited by Rule 6 of matters occurring before a grand jury “when so directed by a court preliminarily […]

463 U.S. 29 463 U.S. 29 103 S.Ct. 2856 77 L.Ed.2d 443 MOTOR VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION OF the UNITED STATES, INC., et al., Petitionersv.STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY et al. CONSUMER ALERT, et al., Petitioners v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY et al. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, et al., Petitioners v. STATE […]

463 U.S. 319 463 U.S. 319 103 S.Ct. 3024 77 L.Ed.2d 668 PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF the STATE OF NEW YORK, Petitioner,v.MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY et al. ARIZONA ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE, INC., Petitioner, v. MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY et al. MICHIGAN, Petitioner, v. MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY et al. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. MID-LOUISIANA GAS COMPANY […]

463 U.S. 248 463 U.S. 248 103 S.Ct. 2985 77 L.Ed.2d 614 Jonathan LEHR, Appellant,v.Lorraine ROBERTSON et al. No. 81-1756. Argued Dec. 7, 1982. Decided June 27, 1983. Syllabus Appellant is the putative father of a child born out of wedlock. Appellee mother of the child married another man (also an appellee) after the child […]

463 U.S. 277 463 U.S. 277 103 S.Ct. 3001 77 L.Ed.2d 637 Herman SOLEM, Warden, Petitionerv.Jerry Buckley HELM. No. 82-492. Argued March 29, 1983. Decided June 28, 1983. Syllabus In 1979, respondent was convicted in a South Dakota state court of uttering a “no account” check for $100. Ordinarily the maximum punishment for that crime […]

463 U.S. 159 463 U.S. 159 103 S.Ct. 2933 77 L.Ed.2d 545 CONTAINER CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Appellantv.FRANCHISE TAX BOARD. No. 81-523. Argued Jan. 10, 1983. Decided June 27, 1983. Syllabus California imposes a corporate franchise tax geared to income. It employs the “unitary business” principle and formula apportionment in applying that tax to corporations doing […]

463 U.S. 206 463 U.S. 206 103 S.Ct. 2961 77 L.Ed.2d 580 UNITED STATES, Petitionerv.Helen MITCHELL et al. No. 81-1748. Argued March 1, 1983. Decided June 27, 1983. Syllabus Respondents—individuals owning interests in allotted lands on the Quinault Indian Reservation, an unincorporated association of such allotees, and the Quinault Tribe—filed actions in the Court of […]

463 U.S. 239 463 U.S. 239 103 S.Ct. 2979 77 L.Ed.2d 605 CITY OF REVERE, Petitionerv.MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL. No. 82-63. Argued Feb. 28, 1983. Decided June 27, 1983. Syllabus A police officer of petitioner city wounded a suspect who was attempting to flee from the scene of a breaking and entering. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial […]

463 U.S. 1341 463 U.S. 1341 104 S.Ct. 17 77 L.Ed.2d 1442 M.I.C., LIMITED and West Point Drive-In, Inc.v.BEDFORD TOWNSHIP.No. A-147. Sept. 13, 1983. Justice BRENNAN, Circuit Justice. 1 Applicants are the owner and operator of the West Point Auto Theatre, located in the Township of Bedford, Michigan. They request that I issue a stay, […]

463 U.S. 1344 463 U.S. 1344 104 S.Ct. 19 77 L.Ed.2d 1446 Ralph M. KEMP, Superintendent, Columbia Diagnostic and Classification Centerv.John Eldon SMITH.No. A-186. Sept. 17, 1983. Justice POWELL, Circuit Justice. On August 23, 1983, the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit granted respondent Smith a stay of execution pending consideration of the merits […]

463 U.S. 147 463 U.S. 147 103 S.Ct. 2926 77 L.Ed.2d 535 EDWARD J. DeBARTOLO CORP., Petitionerv.NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD et al. No. 81-1985. Argued March 22, 1983. Decided June 24, 1983. Syllabus Section 8(b)(4) of the National Labor Relations Act prohibits secondary boycotts, but its so-called “publicity proviso” exempts from the prohibition publicity advising […]