Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jun-25-1987
S.F. Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. USOC - 483 U.S. 522 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court S.F. Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. USOC, 483 U.S. 522 (1987) San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee No. 86-270 Argued March 24, 1987 Decided June 25, 1987 483 U.S. 522 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Section 110 of the Amateur Sports Act of 1978 (Act) grants respondent United States Olympic Committee (USOC) the right to prohibit certain commercial and promotional uses of the word "Olympic" and various Olympic symbols. Petitioner San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. (SFAA), a nonprofit California corporation, promoted the "Gay Olympic Games," to be held in 1982, by using those words on its letterheads and mailings, in local newspapers, and on various merchandise sold to cover the costs of the planned Games. The USOC informed the SFAA of the existence of the Act and requested that it terminate use of the word "Olympic" in i...
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Decided on : Mar-25-1987
Johnson v. Transportation Agency - 480 U.S. 616 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court Johnson v. Transportation Agency, 480 U.S. 616 (1987) Johnson v. Transportation Agency No. 85-1129 Argued November 12, 1986 Decided March 25, 1987 480 U.S. 616 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus In 1978, an Affirmative Action Plan (Plan) for hiring and promoting minorities and women was voluntarily adopted by respondent Santa Clara County Transportation Agency (Agency). The Plan provides, inter alia, that, in making promotions to positions within a traditionally segregated job classification in which women have been significantly underrepresented, the Agency is authorized to consider as one factor the sex of a qualified applicant. The Plan is intended to achieve a statistically measurable yearly improvement in hiring and promoting minorities and women in job classifications where they are underrepresented, and the long-term goal is to attain a workforce w...
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Decided on : Mar-03-1987
School Bd. of Nassau County v. Arline - 480 U.S. 273 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court School Bd. of Nassau County v. Arline, 480 U.S. 273 (1987) School Board of Nassau County, Florida v. Arline No. 85-1277 Argued December 3, 1986 Decided March 3, 1987 480 U.S. 273 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. 794 (Act), provides, inter alia, that no "otherwise qualified handicapped individual," as defined in 29 U.S.C. 706(7), shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from participation in any program receiving federal financial assistance. Section 706(7)(B) defines "handicapped individual" to mean any person who "(i) has a physical . . . impairment which substantially limits one or more of [his] major life activities, (ii) has a record of such an impairment, or (iii) is regarded as having such an impairment." Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations defin...
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Decided on : Mar-31-1987
O'Connor v. Ortega - 480 U.S. 709 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court O'Connor v. Ortega, 480 U.S. 709 (1987) O'Connor v. Ortega No. 86-630 Argued October 16, 1986 Decided March 31, 1987 480 U.S. 709 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Respondent, a physician and psychiatrist, was an employee of a state hospital and had primary responsibility for training physicians in the psychiatric residency program. Hospital officials became concerned about possible improprieties in his management of the program, particularly with respect to his acquisition of a computer and charges against him concerning sexual harassment of female hospital employees and inappropriate disciplinary action against a resident. While he was on administrative leave pending investigation of the charges, hospital officials, allegedly in order to inventory and secure state property, searched his office and seized personal items from his desk and file cabinets that were used in...
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Decided on : Jun-08-1987
Utah Div. of State Lands v. United States - 482 U.S. 193 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court Utah Div. of State Lands v. United States, 482 U.S. 193 (1987) Utah Division of State Lands v. United States No. 85-1772 Argued March 23, 1987 Decided June 8, 1987 482 U.S. 193 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT Syllabus After the Federal Government, in 1976, issued oil and gas leases for lands underlying Utah Lake, a navigable body of water located in Utah, the State brought suit in Federal District Court for injunctive relief and a declaratory judgment that it, rather than the United States, had title to the lakebed under the equal footing doctrine. Under that doctrine, the United States holds the lands under navigable waters in the Territories in trust for the future States, and, absent a prior conveyance by the Federal Government to third parties, a State acquires title to such lands upon entering the Union on an "equal footing" with the original 13 Sta...
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Decided on : Jun-29-1987
Reported in : AIR1987SC1877; 1987CriLJ1910; 1987(2)Crimes892(SC); JT1987(3)SC22; 1987(2)SCALE1; (1987)3SCC502; [1987]3SCR471
1. The petitioners Fazal Ghosi and Wahid in the two writ petitions before us and the appellants Ayaz Ahmad and Riaz Ahmad in the two Criminal Appeals are aggrieved by the orders of detention made respectively in respect of them under Sub-section (2) of Section 3 of the National Security Act, 1980. The petitioners Fazal Ghosi and Wahid filed writ petitions in the High Court of Allahabad against the detention orders concerning them and those writ petitions were dismissed. They have now filed the present petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution. The appellants Ayaz Ahmad and Riaz Ahmad filed writ petitions in the High Court of Allahabad against the detention orders concerning them, and those writ petitions having been dismissed they have appealed here by special leave. All the four cases have been heard together. It is agreed between the parties that although separate orders of detention were made under Sub-section (2) of Section 3 of the National Security Act against the various pe...
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Decided on : Apr-22-1987
McCleskey v. Kemp - 481 U.S. 279 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987) McCleskey v. Kemp No. 84-6811 Argued October 15, 1986 Decided April 22, 1987 481 U.S. 279 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT Syllabus In 1978, petitioner, a black man, was convicted in a Georgia trial court of armed robbery and murder, arising from the killing of a white police officer during the robbery of a store. Pursuant to Georgia statutes, the jury at the penalty hearing considered the mitigating and aggravating circumstances of petitioner's conduct, and recommended the death penalty on the murder charge. The trial court followed the recommendation, and the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed. After unsuccessfully seeking postconviction relief in state courts, petitioner sought habeas corpus relief in Federal District Court. His petition included a claim that the Georgia capital sentencing process was administered in a racially discrimina...
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Decided on : Jun-15-1987
Societe Nationale v. District Court - 482 U.S. 522 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court Societe Nationale v. District Court, 482 U.S. 522 (1987) Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa No. 85-1695 Argued January 14, 1987 Decided June 15, 1987 482 U.S. 522 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT Syllabus The United States, France, and 15 other countries have acceded to the Hague Evidence Convention, which prescribes procedures by which a judicial authority in one contracting state may request evidence located in another. Plaintiffs brought suits (later consolidated) in Federal District Court for personal injuries resulting from the crash of an aircraft built and sold by petitioners, two corporations owned by France. Petitioners answered the complaints without questioning the court's jurisdiction, and engaged in initial discovery without objection. However, when plaintiffs served subse...
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Decided on : Feb-25-1987
California v. Cabazon Band of Indians - 480 U.S. 202 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court California v. Cabazon Band of Indians, 480 U.S. 202 (1987) California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians No. 85-1708 Argued December 9, 1986 Decided February 25, 1987 480 U.S. 202 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Appellee Indian Tribes (the Cabazon and Morongo Bands of Mission Indians) occupy reservations in Riverside County, Cal. Each Band, pursuant to its federally approved ordinance, conducts on its reservation bingo games that are open to the public. The Cabazon Band also operates a card club for playing draw poker and other card games. The gambling games are open to the public, and are played predominantly by non-Indians coming onto the reservations. California sought to apply to the Tribes its statute governing the operation of bingo games. Riverside County also sought to apply its ordinance regulating bingo, as well as its ordinance prohibiting ...
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Decided on : Jun-25-1987
Welch v. Texas Dept. of Highways - 483 U.S. 468 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court Welch v. Texas Dept. of Highways, 483 U.S. 468 (1987) Welch v. Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation No. 85-1716 Argued March 4, 1987 Decided June 25, 1987 483 U.S. 468 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Petitioner, an employee of the Texas Highways Department, was injured while working on a ferry dock operated by the Department. She filed suit against the Department and the State under 33 of the Jones Act, which provides that any seaman injured in the course of his employment may maintain an action for damages at law in federal district court, and which, in effect, applies the remedial provisions of the Federal Employer's Liability Act (FELA) to such suits. The District Court dismissed the action as barred by the Eleventh Amendment, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Although recognizing that Parden v. Terminal Railway of Alabama Docks D...
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