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Today in Supreme Court History
with Dan Schiavetta, Jr.
a.k.a. “captcrisis”
Today in Supreme Court History: September 10
Williams v. Rhodes, 89 S.Ct. 1 (decided September 10, 1968): Stewart, after conferring with other Justices, directs that George Wallace...

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Today in Supreme Court History: September 9
McGee v. Alaska, 104 S.Ct. 16 (decided September 9, 1983): Rehnquist denies prisoner’s request to be released on bail even though the...

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Sep 9, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: September 8
Tuscarora Nation of Indians v. Power Authority of the State of New York, 79 S.Ct. 4 (decided September 8, 1958): Harlan partially grants...

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Sep 8, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: September 7
Uhler v. AFL-CIO, 105 S.Ct. 5 (decided September 7, 1984): Rehnquist says federal courts have no jurisdiction to stay California Supreme...

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Sep 7, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: September 6
Shamburger v. Cockrell, 536 U.S. 986 (decided September 6, 2002): Denies stay of execution and also denies cert. Stevens and Ginsburg...

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Sep 6, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: September 5
Moore v. Brown, 448 U.S. 1335 (decided September 5, 1980): Rehnquist refuses to stay injunction requiring Mobile, Alabama school board to...

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Sep 5, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: September 4
Certain Named and Unnamed Non-Citizen Children and their Parents v. Texas, 448 U.S. 1327 (decided September 4, 1980): Powell restores...

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Sep 4, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: September 2
Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 463 U.S. 1323 (decided September 2, 1983): Rehnquist denies stay of Circuit Court order recalling an...

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Sep 3, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: September 3
Knickerbocker Printing Corp. v. United States, 75 S.Ct. 212 (decided September 3, 1954): in Eminent Domain case alleging inadequate...

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Sep 3, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: September 1
Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, 141 S.Ct. 2949 (decided September 1, 2021): Court denies motion to stay enforcement of Texas law S.B.8...

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Sep 1, 20232 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 31
Harris v. United States, 404 U.S. 1232 (decided August 31, 1971): Douglas, reversing both the District Court and the Court of Appeals,...

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Aug 31, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 30
Wise v. Lipscomb, 434 U.S. 1329 (decided August 30, 1977): Powell stays Court of Appeals judgment rejecting reapportionment plan for...

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Aug 30, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 29
Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1, 396 U.S. 1215 (decided August 29, 1969): Brennan vacates Circuit Court’s stay of desegregation...

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Today in Supreme Court History: August 28
Willhauck v. Flanagan, 448 U.S. 1323 (decided August 28, 1980): Brennan denies stay of prosecutions by two D.A.’s arising from high speed...

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Aug 28, 20231 min read
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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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
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