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Decided on : Jan-15-1962
Seymour v. Superintendent - 368 U.S. 351 (1962) U.S. Supreme Court Seymour v. Superintendent, 368 U.S. 351 (1962) Seymour v. Superintendent of Washington State Penitentiary No. 62 Argued December 13, 1961 Decided January 15, 1962 368 U.S. 351 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF WASHINGTON Syllabus Petitioner is imprisoned in the Washington State Penitentiary under a sentence for attempted burglary imposed by a state court. He petitioned the State Supreme Court for habeas corpus, alleging that he is an Indian, that the alleged offense was committed in "Indian country," and that, therefore, exclusive jurisdiction was in the United States under 18 U.S.C. 1153. The Court found that petitioner was a member of the Colville Tribe, but it denied habeas corpus on the ground that the place where the offense was committed was no longer an Indian reservation, though it had been a part of the Colville Indian Reservation. Held: the Colville Indian Reservation is still in existence; the ...
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Decided on : Jun-25-1962
Glidden Co. v. Zdanok - 370 U.S. 530 (1962) U.S. Supreme Court Glidden Co. v. Zdanok, 370 U.S. 530 (1962) Glidden Co. v. Zdanok No. 242 Argued February 21, 26, 1962 Decided June 25, 1962 * 370 U.S. 530 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Syllabus The Court of Claims and the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals are courts created under Article III of the Constitution, and their judges, including retired judges, may validly serve, by designation and assignment by the Chief Justice of the United States under 28 U.S.C. 293(a) and 294(d), on United States District Courts and Courts of Appeals. Pp. 370 U. S. 531 -589. 288 F.2d 99; 111 U.S.App.D.C. 238, 296 F.2d 360, affirmed. Page 370 U. S. 531 MR. JUSTICE HARLAN announced the judgment of the Court and an opinion joined by MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN and MR. JUSTICE STEWART. In Ex parte Bakelite Corp., 279 U. S. 438 , and Williams v. United States, 289 U. S. 553 , this Court held that the ...
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Decided on : Jun-25-1962
Robinson v. California - 370 U.S. 660 (1962) U.S. Supreme Court Robinson v. California, 370 U.S. 660 (1962) Robinson v. California No. 554 Argued April 17, 1962 Decided June 25, 1962 370 U.S. 660 APPEAL FROM THE APPELLATE DEPARTMENT, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY Syllabus A California statute makes it a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for any person to "be addicted to the use of narcotics," and, in sustaining petitioner's conviction thereunder, the California courts construed the statute as making the "status" of narcotic addiction a criminal offense for which the offender may be prosecuted "at any time before he reforms," even though he has never used or possessed any narcotics within the State and has not been guilty of any antisocial behavior there. Held: As so construed and applied, the statute inflicts a cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Pp. 370 U. S. 660 -668. Reversed. MR. JUSTICE STEWAR...
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Decided on : Nov-05-1962
United States v. Lowe's Inc. - 371 U.S. 38 (1962) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Lowe's Inc., 371 U.S. 38 (1962) United States v. Lowe's Incorporated No. 42 Argued October 16, 1962 Decided November 5, 1962 * 371 U.S. 38 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Syllabus 1. Section 1 of the Sherman Act was violated when individual distributors of copyrighted feature motion picture films for television exhibition engaged in block booking such films to television broadcasting stations -- i.e., conditioning the license or sale of the right to exhibit one or more feature films upon acceptance by each station of a package or block of films containing one or more unwanted or inferior films -- even in the absence of any combination or conspiracy between the distributors and any monopolization or attempt to monopolize. Pp. 371 U. S. 39 -50, 371 U. S. 52 . 2. The fact that, on the records in these cases, each defendant was found t...
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Decided on : Mar-26-1962
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