United States v. Nixon, 418 U.S. 683 (decided July 24, 1974): Court denies President Nixon’s motion to quash the Special Prosecutor’s subpoena; rules that he has to hand over “the tapes” which included the June 23, 1972 “smoking gun” tape which depicted what everyone in those days (including Nixon, a well-read lawyer) understood to be obstruction of justice: he had agreed with his Chief of Staff Haldeman’s suggestion that the CIA be told to lean on the FBI to stop the Waterga

In re Discipline of Quinn, 567 U.S. 955 (decided July 23, 2012): Brian S. Quinn suspended from the Supreme Court bar; he later consented to be stricken from the rolls; Pennsylvania Supreme Court disciplinary decision recounts drug convictions and related malpractices; he became advocate for overcoming addiction (and does presentations on the topic for the same CLE outfit I did presentations for)

King v. Greene, 524 U.S. 965 (decided July 22, 1998): denying stay of execution and also cert.; Stevens and Ginsburg would have granted stay (i.e., they didn’t want this guy ever to be executed); King had kicked, choked and stabbed a woman to death; the Fourth Circuit had rejected arguments that he wasn’t properly “Mirandized” (judges hate when lawyers use that term) and wasn’t provided with a lawyer when he asked Socialist Workers Party v. Rockefeller, 400 U.S. 1201 (decided

NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, 463 U.S. 1311 (decided July 21, 1983): White (a former NCAA star himself) stays decision against NCAA because certiorari would probably be granted (lower courts had held that arrangement banning televising of teams not selected by networks was illegal price-fixing under antitrust laws); cert was granted but White got tackled (i.e., the Court affirmed) Delo v. Blair, 509 U.S. 823 (decided July 21, 1993): stay of execution den