Category: 1988

485 U.S. 759 108 S.Ct. 1537 99 L.Ed.2d 839 Juozas KUNGYS, Petitionerv.UNITED STATES. No. 86-228. Argued April 27, 1987. Reargued Oct. 13, 1987. Decided May 2, 1988. Syllabus The Immigration and Nationality Act provides for the denaturalization of citizens whose citizenship orders and certificates of naturalization “were illegally procured or were procured by concealment of […]

485 U.S. 693 108 S.Ct. 1502 99 L.Ed.2d 785 UNITED STATES, Petitionerv.PROVIDENCE JOURNAL COMPANY and Charles M. Hauser. No. 87-65. Argued Jan. 20, 1988. Decided May 2, 1988. Syllabus Respondents, a newspaper and its executive editor, violated a temporary restraining order issued by the District Court in a civil suit brought to enjoin dissemination of […]

485 U.S. 717 108 S.Ct. 1515 99 L.Ed.2d 808 BUSINESS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, Petitionerv.SHARP ELECTRONICS CORPORATION. No. 85-1910. Argued Jan. 19, 1988. Decided May 2, 1988. Syllabus Petitioner and another retailer (Hartwell) were authorized by respondent manufacturer to sell its electronic calculators in the Houston area. In response to Hartwell’s complaints about petitioner’s prices, respondent terminated […]

485 U.S. 80 108 S.Ct. 896 99 L.Ed.2d 75 R. “Roy” PERALTA, Appellant,v.HEIGHTS MEDICAL CENTER, INC., dba Heights Hospital, et al. No. 86-1430. Argued Nov. 30, 1987. Decided Feb. 24, 1988. Syllabus In 1982, a default judgment was entered against appellant in appellee medical center’s Texas state-court suit to recover a sum allegedly due under […]

485 U.S. 74 108 S.Ct. 892 99 L.Ed.2d 68 Otis R. BOWEN, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Petitionerv.Mary Alice GALBREATH. No. 86-1146. Argued Dec. 9, 1987. Decided Feb. 24, 1988. Syllabus After the Secretary of Health and Human Services denied respondent’s application for supplemental security income (SSI) benefits under Title XVI of the Social […]

485 U.S. 624 108 S.Ct. 1423 99 L.Ed.2d 721 Cecil HICKS, District Attorney for County of Orange, California, Acting on Behalf of Alta Sue FEIOCK, Petitioner,v.Phillip William FEIOCK. No. 86-787. Argued Dec. 1, 1987. Decided April 27, 1988. Syllabus After respondent stopped making $150 monthly child support payments to his ex-wife under a California state-court […]

485 U.S. 660 108 S.Ct. 1444 99 L.Ed.2d 753 EMPLOYMENT DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES OF the State of OREGON, et al., Petitioners,v.Alfred L. SMITH. EMPLOYMENT DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES OF the State of OREGON, et al., Petitioners, v. Galen W. BLACK. Nos. 86-946, 86-947. Argued Dec. 8, 1987. Decided April 27, 1988. Syllabus […]

485 U.S. 680 108 S.Ct. 1589 99 L.Ed.2d 770 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, petitioner,v.NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS, AFL-CIO. No. 87-59 Supreme Court of the United States April 27, 1988 On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. PER CURIAM. 1 The writ of certiorari is […]

485 U.S. 589 108 S.Ct. 1404 99 L.Ed.2d 664 REGENTS OF the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Appellantv.PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD et al. No. 86-935. Argued Jan. 12, 1988. Decided April 20, 1988. Syllabus The Private Express Statutes establish the postal monopoly and generally prohibit the private carriage of letters over postal routes without the payment of […]

485 U.S. 617 108 S.Ct. 1419 99 L.Ed.2d 879 Brenda PATTERSON, Petitionerv.McLEAN CREDIT UNION. No. 87-107. April 25, 1988. PER CURIAM. 1 This case is restored to the calendar for reargument. The parties are requested to brief and argue the following question: 2 “Whether or not the interpretation of 42 U.S.C. ? 1981 adopted by […]

485 U.S. 652 108 S.Ct. 1440 99 L.Ed.2d 745 Paul G. LANDERS, Petitionerv.NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGERS CORPORATION et al. No. 86-2037. Argued March 29, 1988. Decided April 27, 1988. Syllabus Petitioner, a passenger engineer employed by respondent railroad corporation (Amtrak), belongs to the United Transportation Union (UTU) rather than to respondent Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE), […]

485 U.S. 505 108 S.Ct. 1355 99 L.Ed.2d 592 State of SOUTH CAROLINA, Plaintiffv.James A. BAKER, III, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. No. 94, Orig. Argued Dec. 7, 1987. Decided April 20, 1988. Rehearing Denied June 13, 1988. See 486 U.S. 1062, 108 S.Ct. 2837. Syllabus Section 310(b)(1) of the Tax Equity […]

485 U.S. 535 108 S.Ct. 1372 99 L.Ed.2d 618 Eugene TRAYNOR, Petitioner,v.Thomas K. TURNAGE, Administrator, Veterans’ Administration and the Veterans’ Administration. James P. McKELVEY, Petitioner, v. Thomas K. TURNAGE, Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs, et al. Nos. 86-622, 86-737. Argued Dec. 7, 1987. Decided April 20, 1988. Syllabus Petitioners in these cases are honorably discharged veterans […]

485 U.S. 568 108 S.Ct. 1392 99 L.Ed.2d 645 EDWARD J. DeBARTOLO CORP., Petitionerv.FLORIDA GULF COAST BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL and National Labor Relations Board. No. 86-1461. Argued Jan. 20, 1988. Decided April 20, 1988. Syllabus Because a construction company building a department store for a tenant at petitioner’s shopping mall allegedly paid substandard […]

485 U.S. 58 108 S.Ct. 883 99 L.Ed.2d 54 Frederick MATHEWS, Petitioner,v.UNITED STATES. No. 86-6109. Argued Dec. 2, 1987. Decided Feb. 24, 1988. Syllabus Petitioner, an employee of the Small Business Administration (SBA), was the principal SBA contact for James DeShazer, the president of a company that participated in an SBA program. DeShazer believed that […]

485 U.S. 478 108 S.Ct. 1340 99 L.Ed.2d 565 TULSA PROFESSIONAL COLLECTION SERVICES, INC., Appellantv.JoAnne POPE, Executrix of the Estate of H. Everett Pope, Jr., Deceased. No. 86-1961. Argued March 2, 1988. Decided April 19, 1988. Syllabus Under the nonclaim provision of Oklahoma’s Probate Code, creditors’ claims against an estate are generally barred unless they […]

485 U.S. 495 108 S.Ct. 1350 99 L.Ed.2d 582 PUERTO RICO DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS, et al., Petitionersv.ISLA PETROLEUM CORPORATION et al. No. 86-1406 Argued Feb. 29, 1988. Decided April 19, 1988. Syllabus In 1973, Congress passed the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act (EPAA), which required the President to promulgate regulations governing allocation and pricing of […]

485 U.S. 415 108 S.Ct. 1306 99 L.Ed.2d 515 Sandra GARDEBRING, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Petitionerv.Kathryn JENKINS. No. 86-978. Argued Jan. 13, 1988. Decided April 19, 1988. Syllabus In 1981, the federal statute authorizing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program was amended to provide that a family receiving […]

485 U.S. 439 108 S.Ct. 1319 99 L.Ed.2d 534 Richard E. LYNG, Secretary of Agriculture, et al., Petitionersv.NORTHWEST INDIAN CEMETERY PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION et al. No. 86-1013. Argued Nov. 30, 1987. Decided April 19, 1988. Syllabus In 1982, the United States Forest Service prepared a final environmental impact statement for constructing a paved road through federal […]