Lopez v. Smith, 574 U.S. 1 (decided October 6, 2014): Court grants cert and upholds state murder conviction where prosecution switched...

Maryland v. Kulbicki,136 S.Ct. 2 (decided October 5, 2015): Court grants cert, reverses Maryland high court, and dismisses ineffective...

Buntion v. Lumpkin,142 S.Ct. 3 (decided October 4, 2021): stay of execution denied; Breyer doesn’t dissent but notes the “serious legal...

Clark v. Hancock,94 U.S. 493 (decided October 3, 1876): Court can dismiss a non-jurisdictional case without having to wait for the return...

Matter of Disbarment of Maddox, 516 U.S. 802 (decided October 2, 1995): I’m an obscure, unsuccessful lawyer and former crisis center...

United States v. Peck, 102 U.S. 64 (decided October 1, 1880): parol evidence (i.e., evidence outside the four corners of the contract)...

Lux v. Rodrigues, 561 U.S. 1306 (decided September 30, 2010): Roberts denies injunction requiring Virginia election officials to count...

Smith v. Richey, 89 S.Ct. 54 (decided September 29, 1968): Another soldier challenging callup to active duty as violating the Ready...

Collins v. Virginia, 138 S.Ct. 53 (decided September 28, 2017): granted cert on a case involving the automobile exception to the warrant...

Taniguchi v. Kan Pacific Saipan, Ltd. (decided September 27, 2011): cert granted due to Circuit Court split of authority; the Court...

Matter of Disbarment of Mosely, 512 U.S. 1284 (decided September 26, 1994): Municipal judge convicted of extorting kickbacks from...

Tennant v. Jefferson County Comm’n, 567 U.S. 758 (decided September 25, 2012): Full Court, reversing District Court, approves of West...

Twentieth Century Airlines v. Ryan, 74 S.Ct. 8 (decided September 24, 1953): Reed refuses to stay administrative proceedings against...

Katzenbach v. McClung, 85 S.Ct. 6 (decided September 23, 1964): Black lifts injunction against enforcement of Civil Rights Act against...

Pfeifer v. E.I. duPont de NEmours and Co., 530 U.S. 1300 (decided September 22, 2000): denies cert to review Nebraska Supreme Court...

McLeod v. General Electric Co., 87 S.Ct. 5 (decided September 21, 1966): Harlan reinstates NLRB decision forcing General Electric to...

Barthuli v. Board of Trustees of Jefferson Elementary School District, 434 U.S. 1337 (decided September 20, 1977): Rehnquist says he...

United States v. United Liquors Corp., 77 S.Ct. 208 (decided September 19, 1956): Reed denies stay of antitrust judgment prohibiting...

Matter of Disbarment of Donald D. Nash, 473 U.S. 931 (decided September 18, 1985). He had been convicted of Class A sodomy. He later...

Mikutaitis v. United States, 478 U.S. 1306 (decided September 17, 1986): Stevens grants stay of contempt order of witness who refused to...