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Today in Supreme Court History
with Dan Schiavetta, Jr.
a.k.a. “captcrisis”
Today in Supreme Court History: August 27
In re Disbarment of N. Deday LaRene, 518 U.S. 1046 (1996): criminal defense attorney disbarred after he got in with his gangster clients...

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Aug 27, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 26
Beltran v. Smith, 458 U.S. 1303 (decided August 26, 1982): imprisoned gangster, cooperating with prosecutors and in the Witness...

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Aug 26, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 25
Guey Heung Lee v. Johnson, 404 U.S. 1215 (decided August 25, 1971): Douglas denies stay of San Francisco desegregation order as to...

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Aug 25, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 24
Kemp v. Smith, 463 U.S. 1321 (decided August 24, 1983): Powell denies stay of execution; notes that case has been reviewed 16 times by...

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Aug 24, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 23
Lopez v. United States, 404 U.S. 1213 (decided August 23, 1971): Douglas orders draft resister released on his own recognizance;...

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Aug 23, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 22
California v. American Stores Co., 492 U.S. 1301 (decided August 22, 1989): O’Connor continues injunction preventing merger of...

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Aug 22, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 21
Matter of Disbarment of Gottfried, 518 U.S. 1043 (decided August 21, 1996): the Court disbars Lawrence R. Gottfried, who had been...

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Aug 21, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 20
Metropolitan Co. Board of Education v. Kelley, 453 U.S. 1306 (decided August 20, 1981): Stevens refuses to vacate stay of desegregation...

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Aug 20, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 19
Corpus Christi School District v. Cisneros, 404 U.S. 1211 (decided August 19, 1971): Black reinstates stay dissolved by Fifth Circuit of...

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Aug 19, 20232 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 18
Hortonville Joint School Dist. No. 1 v. Hortonville Education Ass’n, 423 U.S. 1301 (decided August 18, 1975): Rehnquist refuses to stay...

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Aug 18, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 17
Arrow Transportation Co. v. Southern Ry. Co., 83 S.Ct. 1 (decided August 17, 1962): Black continues restraining order as to railway rates...

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Aug 17, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 16
Russo v. United States, 404 U.S. 1209 (decided August 16, 1971): Douglas dissolves a Ninth Circuit stay of contempt conviction; applicant...

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Aug 16, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 15
Bas v. Tingy, 4 U.S. 37 (decided August 15, 1800): During the Quasi-War with France (well depicted in the miniseries “John Adams”, with...

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Aug 14, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 14
American Trucking Ass’ns v. Gray, 483 U.S. 1306 (decided August 14, 1987): Blackmun upholds injunction creating escrow for extra taxes...

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Aug 14, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 13
Oden v. Brittain, 396 U.S. 1210 (decided August 13, 1969): Black denies motion to stay election of newly constituted local government in...

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Aug 13, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 12
Chrysafis v. Marks, 141 S.Ct. 2482 (decided August 12, 2021): Court stays New York’s Covid eviction moratorium statute; holds that...

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Aug 12, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 11
Fowler v. Adams, 400 U.S. 1205 (decided August 11, 1970): Black allows Florida candidate for U.S. House to be on ballot even though he...

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Aug 11, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 10
Bowen v. Kendrick, 483 U.S. 1304 (decided August 10, 1987): Rehnquist notes that the Court always puts down for full appeal a case where...

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Aug 10, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 9
United States v. FMC Corp., 84 S.Ct. 4 (decided August 9, 1963): Goldberg says he has no jurisdiction to stay a merger which allegedly...

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Aug 9, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 8
Public Service Board of State of Vermont v. United States, 87 S.Ct. 3 (decided August 8, 1966): Harlan denies stay of ICC order granting...

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Aug 8, 20232 min read
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