The Oyez Project: 1984 Term

Aguilar v. Felton (No. 84-237)

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Air France v. Saks (No. 83-1785)

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Ake v. Oklahoma (No. 83-5424)

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Alabama And Mississippi Boundary Case (No. 9 ORIG)

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Alexander v. Choate (No. 83-727)

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Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck (No. 83-1748)

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American National Bank & Tr. Co. v. Haroco, Inc. (No. 84-822)

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Anderson v. Bessemer City (No. 83-1623)

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Aspen Skiing Co. v. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corp. (No. 84-510)

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Atascadero State Hospital v. Scanlon (No. 84-351)

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Atkins v. Parker (No. 83-1660)

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Baldwin v. Alabama (No. 84-5743)

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Ball v. United States (No. 84-5004)

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Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. v. Berner (No. 84-679)

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Bennett v. Kentucky Dept. Of Education (No. 83-1798)

Part of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 authorized local institutions to receive funds to assist educationally deprived children from low-income families. Since 1966, New York City had used portions of its Title I funding to pay salaries of employees who teach in parochial schools.

Bennett v. New Jersey (No. 83-2064)

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Black v. Romano (No. 84-465)

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Board Of Ed. v. National Gay Task Force (No. 83-2030)

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Board Of Trustees Of Scarsdale v. Mccreary (No. 84-277)

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Brandon v. Holt (No. 83-1622)

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Brockett v. Spokane Arcades, Inc. (No. 84-28)

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Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz (No. 83-2097)

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Burlington School Comm. v. Mass. Dept. Of Ed. (No. 84-433)

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Caldwell v. Mississippi (No. 83-6607)

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California v. Carney (No. 83-859)

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Carchman v. Nash (No. 84-776)

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Central States Pension Fund v. Central Transp. (No. 84-2157)

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Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Central Transport, Inc. (No. 82-2157)

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Chemical Manufacturers Assn. v. Nrdc (No. 83-1013)

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Cia v. Sims (No. 83-1075)

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Cleburne, TX v. Cleburne Living Center (No. 84-468)

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Cleveland Board Of Education v. Loudermill (No. 83-1362)

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Commodity Futures Trading Comm'n v. Weintraub (No. 84-261)

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Connecticut Dept. Of Income Maint. v. Heckler (No. 83-2136)

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Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense & Ed. Fund (No. 84-312)

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Cornelius v. Nutt (No. 83-1673)

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Cory v. Western Oil & Gas Assn. (No. 84-16)

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County Of Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation (No. 83-1065)

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Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd (No. 83-1708)

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Dowling v. United States (No. 84-589)

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Eastern Air Lines v. Mahfoud (No. 83-1807)

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Estate of Thornton v. Caldor (No. 83-1158)

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Evitts v. Lucey (No. 83-1378)

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Federal Election Commission v. NCPAC (No. 83-1032)

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First National Bank v. Bartow Cty. Tax Assessors (No. 83-1620)

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Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion (No. 83-703)

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Francis v. Franklin (No. 83-1590)

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Fugate v. New Mexico (No. 83-6663)

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Garcia v. United States (No. 83-6061)

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Garrett v. United States (No. 83-1842)

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Gould v. Ruefenacht (No. 84-165)

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Grand Rapids School District v. Ball (No. 83-990)

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Hallie v. Eau Claire (No. 82-1832)

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Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises (No. 83-1632)

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Hayes v. Florida (No. 83-6766)

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Heckler v. Chaney (No. 83-1878)

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Heckler v. Turner (No. 83-1097)

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Herb's Welding, Inc. v. Gray (No. 83-728)

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Hillsborough County v. Automated Medical Labs. (No. 83-1925)

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Hooper v. Bernalillo County Assessor (No. 84-231)

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Hunter v. Underwood (No. 84-76)

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In Re Snyder (No. 84-310)

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Ins v. Rios-Pineda (No. 83-2032)

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Jean v. Nelson (No. 84-5240)

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Jensen, v. Quaring (No. 83-1944)

In 1980, Cleburne Living Center, Inc. submitted a permit application to operate a home for the mentally retarded. The city council of Cleburne voted to deny the special use permit, acting pursuant to a municipal zoning ordinance.

Johnson v. Mayor & City Council Of Baltimore (No. 84-518)

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Kentucky v. Graham (No. 84-849)

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Kerr-Mcgee Corp. v. Navajo Tribe (No. 84-68)

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Landreth Timber Co. v. Landreth (No. 83-1961)

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Lawrence County v. Lead-Deadwood School Dist. (No. 83-240)

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Lindahl v. Opm (No. 83-5954)

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Liparota v. United States (No. 84-5108)

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Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida, Dept of Corrections v. Johnny Paul Witt (No. 83-1427)

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Lowe v. SEC (No. 83-1911)

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Luce v. United States (No. 83-912)

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Marek v. Chesny (No. 83-1437)

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Marrese v. American Academy Of Ortho. Surgeons (No. 83-1452)

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Maryland v. Macon (No. 84-778)

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Massachusetts Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Russell (No. 84-9)

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Mcdonald v. Smith (No. 84-476)

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Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Massachusetts (No. 84-325)

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Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Ward (No. 83-1274)

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Mills Music, Inc. v. Snyder (No. 83-1153)

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Mitchell v. Forsyth (No. 84-335)

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Mitsubishi Motors v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth (No. 83-1569)

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Montana v. Blackfeet Tribe (No. 83-2161)

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Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Santa Ana (No. 84-262)

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NAACP v. Hampton County Election Comm'n (No. 83-1015)

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National Farmers Union Ins. Cos. v. Crow Tribe (No. 84-320)

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National R. Passenger Corp. v. A. T. & S. F. R. Co. (No. 83-1492)

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New Jersey v. T.L.O. (No. 83-712)

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NLRB v. Action Automotive, Inc. (No. 83-1416)

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NLRB v. Longshoremen (No. 84-861)

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Northeast Bancorp, Inc. v. Federal Reserve System (No. 84-363)

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Northwest Stationers v. Pacific Stationery (No. 83-1368)

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Ohio v. Kovacs (No. 83-1020)

Donald E. Thornton worked as a supervisor in the Caldor department store chain. A devout Presbyterian, Thornton asked to be excused from working Sundays at the company's store in Torrington, Connecticut. The store required its managers to work one of every four Sundays, although rank-and-file employees were exempt under their union contract from Sunday work. In 1979, the company refused to allow Thornton to take off Sundays but offered him a transfer to another store, an hour away in Massachusetts, that was closed on Sundays. When he turned that down, the company said it would demote him from his manager's job and cut his hourly pay from $6.46 to $3.50. Thornton had worked Sundays for nearly eight months before he became aware the store was violating Connecticut law giving employees an absolute right not to work on their chosen Sabbath. He filed a grievance against Caldor with the state board of mediation. The board ruled in his favor. The state supreme court reversed. Thornton's estate (Thornton died in 1982) petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for certiorari.

Oklahoma City v. Tuttle (No. 83-1919)

Certain bank holding companies located principally in either Connecticut or Massachusetts applied to the Federal Reserve Board (Board) to obtain approval for acquisitions of banks or bank holding companies (banks) in the other state. If a bank from one state seeks to acquire a bank, or substantially all of a bank's assets, from another state, the Douglas Amendment to the Bank Holding Company Act (BHCA), 12 U.S.C. Section 1842(d), allows the Board to approve the acquisition only if it "is specifically authorized by the statute laws of the State in which such [acquired] bank is located." Massachusetts and Connecticut have substantially similar laws allowing out-of-state banks to buy in-state banks only if the out-of-state banks (1) have their principal place of business in another New England State, and (2) the other New England State accords equivalent reciprocal privileges. Certain banks from outside of New England opposed the acquisitions, but the Board found that the Douglas Amendment did not prevent their authorization, and approved them.

Oklahoma v. Castleberry (No. 83-2126)

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Oregon Fish & Wildlife Dept. v. Klamath Tribe (No. 83-2148)

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Oregon v. Elstad (No. 83-773)

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Park'n Fly, Inc. v. Dollar Park And Fly, Inc. (No. 83-1132)

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Pattern Makers v. NLRB (No. 83-1894)

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Paulsen v. Commissioner (No. 83-832)

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Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts (No. 84-233)

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Ponte v. Real (No. 83-1329)

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Ramirez v. Indiana (No. 84-5059)

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Rhode Island And New York Boundary Case (No. 35 ORIG)

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Richardson-Merrell Inc. v. Koller (No. 84-127)

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Russell v. United States (No. 84-435)

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Schreiber v. Burlington Northern, Inc. (No. 83-2129)

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Sedima, S. P. R. L. v. Imrex Co. (No. 84-648)

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Shea v. Louisiana (No. 82-5920)

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Southern Motor Carriers Rate Conf. v. U.S. (No. 82-1922)

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Spencer v. South Carolina Tax Commission (No. 84-249)

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Springfield Township School Dist. v. Knoll (No. 82-1889)

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Superintendent v. Hill (No. 84-438)

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Supreme Court Of New Hampshire v. Piper (No. 83-1466)

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Tennessee v. Garner (No. 83-1035)

Mr. Wayte was required by a 1980 Presidential Proclamation to register with the Selective Service system. Instead, he wrote letters to various government officials stating that he had not registered and did not intend to do so. Wayte's letters were added to a file kept by the Selective Service of men who had informed the government that they were not complying with the proclamation.

The Selective Service later adopted a policy of passive enforcement, in which it would prosecute only men who had either reported to the government that they were not registering or whom other people had reported to the government for not registering. After a long series of requests by the government that Wayte register (all of which he failed to respond to), the government eventually indicted Wayte in federal district court for violating the Military Selective Service Act.

The district court, however, dismissed the indictment, holding that the government's passive enforcement policy was unconstitutional because it amounted to selective prosecution of only those men who took an outspoken stance against the Selective Service. On appeal, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, holding that Wayte had failed to show that the government focused its attention on him because of his protest activities.

Tennessee v. Street (No. 83-2143)

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Thomas v. Union Carbide Agric. Products Co. (No. 84-497)

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Tiffany Fine Arts, Inc. v. United States (No. 83-1007)

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Tiverton Bd. Of License Comm'rs v. Pastore (No. 83-963)

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Tony & Susan Alamo Foundation v. Sec'y Of Labor (No. 83-1935)

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Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston (No. 83-997)

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United States v. 50 Acres Of Land (No. 83-1170)

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United States v. Abel (No. 83-935)

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United States v. Albertini (No. 83-1624)

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United States v. Bagley (No. 84-48)

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United States v. Boyle (No. 83-1266)

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United States v. Dann (No. 83-1476)

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United States v. Hensley (No. 83-1330)

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United States v. Johns (No. 83-1625)

Michael James Elstad was suspected of committing a burglary and was picked up by police officers in his home. Before officers had given the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona, Elstad made an incriminating statement. Once at the Sheriff's headquarters, Elstad was advised of his rights. Elstad then voluntarily executed a written confession.

United States v. Locke (No. 83-1394)

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United States v. Miller (No. 83-1750)

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United States v. Montoya De Hernandez (No. 84-755)

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United States v. National Bank Of Commerce (No. 84-498)

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United States v. Powell (No. 83-1307)

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United States v. Sharpe (No. 83-529)

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United States v. Shearer (No. 84-194)

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United States v. Young (No. 83-469)

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Wallace v. Jaffree (No. 83-812)

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Walters v. Nat. Assn. Of Radiation Survivors (No. 84-571)

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Wayte v. United States (No. 83-1292)

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Webb v. Dyer County Bd. Of Ed. (No. 83-1360)

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Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Criswell (No. 83-1545)

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Williams v. Vermont (No. 84-592)

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Williamson Planning Comm'n v. Hamilton Bank (No. 84-4)

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Wilson v. Garcia (No. 83-2146)

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Winston v. Lee (No. 83-1334)

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Zauderer v. Office Of Disciplinary Counsel (No. 83-2166)

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