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Today in Supreme Court History
with Dan Schiavetta, Jr.
a.k.a. “captcrisis”
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
Today in Supreme Court History: August 7
Ex parte Clarke, 128 U.S. 395 (decided August 7, 1888): Harlan denies habeas to a steamship operator who had been convicted of selling...

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Aug 7, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 6
In re Equitable Office Bldg. Corp., 72 S.Ct. 1086 (decided August 6, 1946): Bankruptcy trustee’s plan of reorganization had been accepted...

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Aug 6, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 5
Davis v. Adams, 400 U.S. 1203 (decided August 5, 1969): Black upholds stay of Florida statute requiring incumbents of state office to...

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Aug 5, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 4
Truong Dinh Hung v. United States, 439 U.S. 1326 (decided August 4, 1978): Brennan, reversing Circuit Court, allows bail pending appeal...

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Aug 4, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 3
Breswick & Co. v. United States, 75 S.Ct. 912 (decided August 3, 1969): the Interstate Commerce Commission, which had approved a merged...

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Aug 3, 20231 min read
Today in Supreme Court History: August 2
Levy v. Parker, 396 U.S. 1204 (decided August 2, 1969): Douglas grants bail to Levy, an army doctor, convicted of Military Code provision...

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Aug 2, 20231 min read
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