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Today in Supreme Court History
with Dan Schiavetta, Jr.
a.k.a. “captcrisis”
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 31 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 3
Breswick & Co. v. United States , 75 S.Ct. 912 (decided August 3, 1955): the Interstate Commerce Commission, which had approved a merged...

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Aug 21 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 2
Levy v. Parker , 396 U.S. 1204 (decided August 2, 1969): Douglas grants bail to army doctor convicted of Military Code provision...

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Aug 11 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 1
American Mfrs. Mut. Ins. Co. v. American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc. , 87 S.Ct. 1 (decided August 1, 1966): Harlan stays state...

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Aug 11 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 31
Ex Parte Quirin , 317 U.S. 1 (decided July 31, 1942): allows Nazi saboteurs to argue their habeas petition before the Court, but upholds...

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Jul 301 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 30
Perez v. United States , 1970 WL 105758 (decided July 30, 1970): Harlan affirms the Second Circuit’s denial of bail; defendant had been...

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Jul 291 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 29
Times-Picayune Publishing Corp. v. Schulingkamp , 419 U.S. 1301 (decided July 29, 1974): Powell stays trial judge’s prior restraint order...

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Jul 281 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 28
Fare v. Michael C. , 439 U.S. 1310 (decided July 28, 1978): Rehnquist grants stay of California Supreme Court’s order as to minor being...

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Jul 271 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 27
Mahan v. Howell , 404 U.S. 1201 (decided July 27, 1971): in one of his last acts, Hugo Black refuses to stay District Court order...

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Jul 261 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 26
DeBoer by Darrow v. DeBoer , 509 U.S. 1301 (decided July 26, 1993): Stevens denies (on grounds of lack of a federal issue) couple’s...

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Jul 251 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 25
Miller v. California , 418 U.S. 915 (decided July 25, 1974): Appeal from California state court obscenity conviction (actually the state...

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Jul 252 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 24
United States v. Nixon , 418 U.S. 683 (decided July 24, 1974): Court denies President Nixon’s motion to quash the Special Prosecutor’s...

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Jul 231 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 23
In re Roche , 448 U.S. 1312 (decided July 23, 1980): Brennan on First Amendment grounds continues stay of subpoena in disciplinary...

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Jul 221 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 22
King v. Greene , 524 U.S. 965 (decided July 22, 1998): denying stay of execution and also certiorari; Stevens and Ginsburg would have...

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Jul 221 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 21
NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma , 463 U.S. 1311 (decided July 21, 1983): White (a former NCAA star himself) stays...

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Jul 211 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 20
Califano v. McRae , 434 U.S. 1301 (decided July 20, 1977): Marshall turns down request to stay the Court’s previous order allowing the...

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Jul 201 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 19
Rostker v. Goldberg , 448 U.S. 1306 (decided July 19, 1980): Does the draft (applicable to males only) discriminate? Â The District Court...

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Jul 202 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 18
Hamblen v. Dugger , 492 U.S. 929 (decided July 18, 1989): Staying execution pending decision on certiorari, with the stay to dissolve if...

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Jul 171 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 17
Rubin v. United States , 524 U.S. 1301 (decided July 17, 1998): Rehnquist denies motion to stay subpoenas for testimony of Secret Service...

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Jul 161 min read
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Today in Supreme Court History: July 16
Travia v. Lomenzo , 86 S.Ct. 7 (decided July 16, 1965): In this order by Harlan refusing a stay of a District Court decision, we see 1)...

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Jul 151 min read
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