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Wainwright Vs. Witt
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-21-1985
Wainwright v. Witt - 469 U.S. 412 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court Wainwright v. Witt, 469 U.S. 412 (1985) Wainwright v. Witt No. 83-1427 Argued October 2, 1984 Decided January 21, 1985 469 U.S. 412 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Respondent was tried by a jury in a Florida state court and convicted of first-degree murder. In accordance with the jury's recommendation, he was sentenced to death. On appeal, respondent claimed that several prospective jurors had been improperly excluded for cause because of their opposition to capital punishment, in violation of the decision in Witherspoon v. Illinois, 391 U. S. 510 , but the Florida Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and sentence. After unsuccessfully seeking postconviction review in the state courts, respondent filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in Federal District Court under 28 U.S.C. 2254. That court denied the petition. The Court of Appeals reversed and granted...
Evitts Vs. Lucey
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-21-1985
Evitts v. Lucey - 469 U.S. 387 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court Evitts v. Lucey, 469 U.S. 387 (1985) Evitts v. Lucey No. 83-1378 Argued October 10, 1984 Decided January 21, 1985 469 U.S. 387 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Syllabus After respondent was convicted of a drug offense in a Kentucky state court, his retained counsel filed a timely notice of appeal to the Kentucky Court of Appeals. But because counsel failed to file the statement of appeal required by a Kentucky Rule of Appellate Procedure when he filed his brief and record on appeal, the Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal and later denied a motion for reconsideration. The Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed, and the trial court denied a motion to vacate the conviction or grant a belated appeal. The respondent then sought habeas corpus relief in Federal District Court, challenging the dismissal of his appeal on the ground that it deprived him of the right to effective assistance of c...
United States Vs. Johns
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-21-1985
United States v. Johns - 469 U.S. 478 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Johns, 469 U.S. 478 (1985) United States v. Johns No. 83-1625 Argued November 28, 1984 Decided January 21, 1985 469 U.S. 478 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Pursuant to an investigation of a suspected drug smuggling operation, United States Customs officers, by ground and air surveillance, observed two pickup trucks as they traveled to a remote private airstrip in Arizona and the arrival and departure there of two small airplanes. The officers smelled the odor of marihuana as they approached the trucks and saw in the back of the trucks packages wrapped in dark green plastic and sealed with tape, a common method of packaging marihuana. After arresting certain of the respondents at the airstrip, the officers took the trucks back to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters, and the packages were then placed in a DEA warehouse. Three days af...
Brandon Vs. Holt
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-21-1985
Brandon v. Holt - 469 U.S. 464 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court Brandon v. Holt, 469 U.S. 464 (1985) Brandon v. Holt No. 83-1622 Argued November 5, 1984 Decided January 21, 1985 469 U.S. 464 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Syllabus In petitioners' action in Federal District Court under 42 U.S.C. 1983, they alleged and proved that they had been assaulted by an officer of the Memphis Police Department who had a history of violent behavior that was well known within the Department. The court's judgment for petitioners, in addition to awarding compensatory and punitive damages against the officer, also awarded compensatory damages against the then Director of the Police Department "in his official capacity," the court having found that, although the Director had no actual knowledge of the officer's disciplinary record because of the Department's administrative policies, he should have known of the officer's dangerous propensities. The Court of A...
Thomas Vs. Sierra Club
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-17-1985
Thomas v. Sierra Club - 469 U.S. 1309 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court Thomas v. Sierra Club, 469 U.S. 1309 (1984) Thomas v. Sierra Club No. A-537 Decided January 17, 1985 * 469 U.S. 1309 ON APPLICATION FOR STAY Syllabus Applications to stay -- pending appeal to the Court of Appeals -- the District Court's order holding the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in contempt for failing to promulgate certain emission standards for radionuclides as required by the District Court's earlier order based on its interpretation of 112(b)(1)(B) of the Clean Air Act, are denied. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, Circuit Justice. Applicants, the Acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the EPA, and the Idaho Mining Association, ask me to stay an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California pending appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The order holds the Administrator in contempt for failing to promulgate certain...
New Jersey Vs. T.L.O.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-15-1985
New Jersey v. T.L.O. - 469 U.S. 325 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court New Jersey v. T.L.O., 469 U.S. 325 (1985) New Jersey v. T.L.O. No. 83-712 Argued March 28, 1984 Reargued October 2, 1984 Decided January 15, 1985 469 U.S. 325 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW JERSEY Syllabus A teacher at a New Jersey high school, upon discovering respondent, then a 14-year-old freshman, and her companion smoking cigarettes in a school lavatory in violation of a school rule, took them to the Principal's office, where they met with the Assistant Vice Principal. When respondent, in response to the Assistant Vice Principal's questioning, denied that she had been smoking and claimed that she did not smoke at all, the Assistant Vice Principal demanded to see her purse. Upon opening the purse, he found a pack of cigarettes and also noticed a package of cigarette rolling papers that are commonly associated with the use of marihuana. He then proceeded to search the purse thoroughly and found some ma...
United States Vs. Boyle
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-09-1985
United States v. Boyle - 469 U.S. 241 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Boyle, 469 U.S. 241 (1985) United States v. Boyle No. 83-1266 Argued October 10, 1984 Decided January 9, 1985 469 U.S. 241 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Respondent, executor of his mother's will, retained an attorney to handle the estate. Respondent provided the attorney with all relevant information and records for filing a federal estate tax return, which under 6075(a) of the Internal Revenue Code was required to be filed within nine months of the decedent's death. Respondent inquired of the attorney from time to time as to the preparation of the return, and was assured that it would be filed on time. But the return was filed three months late, apparently because of a clerical oversight in omitting the filing date from the attorney's calendar. Acting pursuant to 6651(a)(1) of the Code, which provides a penalty for failure to file a return ...
Alexander Vs. Choate
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-09-1985
Alexander v. Choate - 469 U.S. 287 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court Alexander v. Choate, 469 U.S. 287 (1985) Alexander v. Choate No. 83-727 Argued October 1, 1984 Decided January 9, 1985 469 U.S. 287 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Faced with Medicaid costs beyond its budget, Tennessee proposed to reduce from 20 to 14 the number of annual inpatient hospital days that state Medicaid would pay hospitals on behalf of a Medicaid recipient. Before the reduction took effect, respondent Medicaid recipients brought a class action in Federal District Court for declaratory and injunctive relief. Respondents alleged that the proposed 14-day limitation would have a disproportionate effect on the handicapped, and hence was discriminatory in violation of 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 -- which provides that no otherwise qualified handicapped person shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be subjected to discrimination under any program re...
Ohio Vs. Kovacs
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-09-1985
Ohio v. Kovacs - 469 U.S. 274 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court Ohio v. Kovacs, 469 U.S. 274 (1985) Ohio v. Kovacs No. 83-1020 Argued October 10, 1984 Decided January 9, 1985 469 U.S. 274 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Petitioner State of Ohio obtained an injunction in state court ordering respondent and other defendants to clean up a hazardous waste disposal site. When the injunction was not complied with, the State obtained the appointment in state court of a receiver, who was directed to take possession of the defendants' property and other assets and to implement the injunction. The receiver took possession of the site but had not completed his tasks when respondent filed a personal bankruptcy petition. Seeking to require part of respondent's post-bankruptcy income to be applied to the receiver's unfinished tasks, the State filed a motion in state court to discover respondent's income and assets. At respondent's request, the Bank...
Lawrence County Vs. Lead-deadwood S.D.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-09-1985
Lawrence County v. Lead-Deadwood S.D. - 469 U.S. 256 (1985) U.S. Supreme Court Lawrence County v. Lead-Deadwood S.D., 469 U.S. 256 (1985) Lawrence County v. Lead-Deadwood School District No. 40-1 No. 83-240 Argued October 30, 1984 Decided January 9, 1985 469 U.S. 256 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH DAKOTA Syllabus The Payment in Lieu of Taxes Act compensates local governments for the loss of tax revenues resulting from the tax-immune status of federal lands, such as wilderness areas and national parks, located in their jurisdictions, and for the cost of providing services associated with these lands. The Act in 31 U.S.C. 6902(a) requires the Secretary of the Interior to make an annual payment to each unit of local government in which such lands are located, and further provides that the local unit "may use the payment for any governmental purpose." A South Dakota statute requires local governments to distribute federal payments in lieu of taxes in the same way they d...
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