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106 S. Ct. 2505 (1986) | Cited 127775 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 279-280 (1964), we held that, in a libel suit brought by a public official, the First Amendment requires the plaintiff to show that in publishing the defamatory statement the defendant acted with ...
127 S.Ct. 1955 (2007) | Cited 123878 times
... 550 U. S. ____ (2007) Liability under §1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U. S. C. §1, requires a "contract, combination ... , or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce." The question in this putative class action is whether a §1 complaint can survive a motion to dismiss when it alleges that major ...
106 S. Ct. 2548 (1986) | Cited 117912 times
... JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the motion of petitioner Celotex Corporation for summary judgment against respondent Catrett because the latter was unable to produce evidence in support of her allegation in ...
104 S. Ct. 2052 (1984) | Cited 83144 times
... JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to consider the proper standards for judging a criminal defendant's contention that the Constitution requires a conviction or death sentence to be set aside because counsel's assistance at the trial or sentencing was ...
106 S. Ct. 1348 (1986) | Cited 59838 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires that we again consider the standard district courts must apply when deciding whether to grant summary judgment in an antitrust conspiracy case. I Stating the facts of this case is a daunting task. The opinion of the Court ...
106 S. Ct. 466 (1985) | Cited 49454 times
... JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1976, Congress amended § 101 of the Federal Magistrates Act, 28 U. S. C. § 636, to provide that a United States district judge may refer dispositive pretrial motions, and petitions for writ of habeas corpus, to a magistrate, who shall conduct ...
99 S. Ct. 2781 (1979) | Cited 45005 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. The Constitution prohibits the criminal conviction of any person except upon proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. In re Winship, 397 U.S. 358. The question in this case is what standard is to be applied in a federal habeas corpus ...
98 S. Ct. 2018 (1978) | Cited 36470 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners, a class of female employees of the Department of Social Services and of the Board of Education of the city of New York, commenced this action under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 in July 1971. 1 The gravamen of the complaint was that the ...
78 S. Ct. 99 (1957) | Cited 35267 times
... MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. Once again Negro employees are here under the Railway Labor Act 1 asking that their collective bargaining agent be compelled to represent them fairly. In a series of cases beginning with Steele v. Louisville & Nashville R. Co., 323 U.S. 192, ...
87 S. Ct. 1396 (1967) | Cited 34892 times
... MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court. We are here concerned with the extent of the duty of a court-appointed appellate counsel to prosecute a first appeal from a criminal conviction, after that attorney has conscientiously determined that there is no merit to the indigent's appeal. ...
86 S. Ct. 1602 (1966) | Cited 33228 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. The cases before us raise questions which go to the roots of our concepts of American criminal jurisprudence: the restraints society must observe consistent with the Federal Constitution in prosecuting individuals for crime. More ...
92 S. Ct. 594 (1972) | Cited 32383 times
... Petitioner, an inmate at the Illinois State Penitentiary, Menard, Illinois, commenced this action against the Governor of Illinois and other state officers and prison officials under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 17 Stat. 13, 42 U. S. C. § 1983, and 28 U. S. C. § 1343 (3), seeking to recover ...
93 S. Ct. 1817 (1973) | Cited 31508 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. The case before us raises significant questions as to the proper order and nature of proof in actions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, 42 U. S. C. § 2000c et seq. Petitioner, McDonnell Douglas Corp., is an ...
127 S.Ct. 2197 (2007) | Cited 30798 times
... 551 U. S. ____ (2007) Imprisoned by the State of Colorado and alleging violations of his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment, William Erickson, the petitioner in this Court, filed suit against prison officials in the United States District Court for the ...
97 S. Ct. 285 (1976) | Cited 30666 times
... MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent J. W. Gamble, an inmate of the Texas Department of Corrections, was injured on November 9, 1973, while performing a prison work assignment. On February 11, 1974, he instituted this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 1 ...
109 S. Ct. 1827 (1989) | Cited 29705 times
... JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented is whether a complaint filed in forma pauperis which fails to state a claim under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) is automatically frivolous within the meaning of 28 U. S. C. § 1915(d). The answer, we hold, is no. ...
91 S. Ct. 1420 (1971) | Cited 29564 times
... MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1966 Pedro Perales, a San Antonio truck driver, then aged 34, height 5 feet 11 inches, weight about 220 pounds, filed a claim for disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act. Sections 216 (i)(1), 68 Stat. 1080, and 223 ...
123 S.Ct. 1029 (2003) | Cited 28685 times
... 537 U. S. ____ (2003) On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Fifth Circuit In this case we once again examine when a state prisoner can appeal the denial or dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. In 1986 two Dallas County assistant district attorneys ...
129 S.Ct. 1937 (2009) | Cited 26550 times
... Opinion of the Court 556 U. S. ____ (2009) Respondent Javaid Iqbal is a citizen of Pakistan and a Muslim. In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks he was arrested in the United States on criminal charges and detained by federal officials. Respondent claims he was deprived of ...
88 S. Ct. 1868 (1968) | Cited 23046 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents serious questions concerning the role of the Fourth Amendment in the confrontation on the street between the citizen and the policeman investigating suspicious circumstances. Petitioner Terry was convicted of carrying ...
125 S.Ct. 738 (2005) | Cited 22296 times
... 543 U. S. ____ (2005) The question presented in each of these cases is whether an application of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines violated the Sixth Amendment. In each case, the courts below held that binding rules set forth in the Guidelines limited the severity of the sentence that the judge ...
120 S.Ct. 1495 (2000) | Cited 21856 times
... Opinion of the Court WILLIAMS v. TAYLOR On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Fourth Circuit Justice Stevens announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, III, and IV, and an opinion with respect to Parts II and ...
83 S. Ct. 1194 (1963) | Cited 20736 times
... Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, announced by MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN. Petitioner and a companion, Boblit, were found guilty of murder in the first degree and were sentenced to death, their convictions being affirmed by the Court of Appeals of Maryland. 220 Md. 454, 154 A. 2d 434. Their ...
102 S. Ct. 2727 (1982) | Cited 19195 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this case is the scope of the immunity available to the senior aides and advisers of the President of the United States in a suit for damages based upon their official acts. I In this suit for civil damages petitioners Bryce Harlow ...
108 S. Ct. 2250 (1988) | Cited 16181 times
... JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether a physician who is under contract with the State to provide medical services to inmates at a state-prison hospital on a part-time basis acts "under color of state law," within the meaning of 42 U. S. C. § ...
91 S. Ct. 1999 (1971) | Cited 15886 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. The Fourth Amendment provides that: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated . . . ." In Bell v. Hood, 327 U.S. 678 (1946), we ...
83 S. Ct. 227 (1962) | Cited 14949 times
... MR. JUSTICE GOLDBERG delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner filed a complaint in the District Court alleging that, in exchange for petitioner's promise to care for and support her mother, petitioner's father had agreed not to make a will, thereby assuring petitioner of an intestate share ...
87 S. Ct. 824 (1967) | Cited 14656 times
... MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners, Ruth Elizabeth Chapman and Thomas LeRoy Teale, were convicted in a California state court upon a charge that they robbed, kidnaped, and murdered a bartender. She was sentenced to life imprisonment and he to death. At the time ...
90 S. Ct. 1598 (1970) | Cited 14113 times
... MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner, Sandra Adickes, a white school teacher from New York, brought this suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against respondent S. H. Kress & Co. ("Kress") to recover damages under 42 U. S. C. § ...
111 S. Ct. 2546 (1991) | Cited 14008 times
... JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a case about federalism. It concerns the respect that federal courts owe the States and the States' procedural rules when reviewing the claims of state prisoners in federal habeas corpus. I A Buchanan County, Virginia, jury convicted ...
94 S. Ct. 1683 (1974) | Cited 14004 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari 1 in these cases to resolve whether the District Court correctly dismissed civil damage actions, brought under 42 U. S. C. § 1983, on the ground that these actions were, as a matter of law, against the State of ...
504 U.S. 555 (1992) | Cited 13878 times
... JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, III-A, and IV, and an opinion with respect to Part III-B in which THE CHIEF JUSTICE, JUSTICE WHITE, and JUSTICE THOMAS join. This case involves a challenge to a rule promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior ...
101 S. Ct. 1089 (1981) | Cited 13441 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to address again the nature of the evidentiary burden placed upon the defendant in an employment discrimination suit brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e et seq. The narrow ...
58 S. Ct. 817 (1938) | Cited 13385 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court. The question for decision is whether the oft-challenged doctrine of Swift v. Tyson 1 shall now be disapproved. Tompkins, a citizen of Pennsylvania, was injured on a dark night by a passing freight train of the Erie Railroad Company while ...
66 S. Ct. 154 (1945) | Cited 13295 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court. The questions for decision are (1) whether, within the limitations of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, appellant, a Delaware corporation, has by its activities in the State of Washington rendered itself amenable to ...
109 S. Ct. 1865 (1989) | Cited 13202 times
... CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to decide what constitutional standard governs a free citizen's claim that law enforcement officials used excessive force in the course of making an arrest, investigatory stop, or other "seizure" of his person. We ...
96 S. Ct. 549 (1976) | Cited 12939 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented in this case is whether the Federal Magistrates Act, 28 U.S.C. § 631 et seq., permits a United States district court to refer all Social Security benefit cases to United States magistrates for preliminary review of ...
109 S. Ct. 2304 (1989) | Cited 12866 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether a State, or an official of the State while acting in his or her official capacity, is a "person" within the meaning of Rev. Stat. § 1979, 42 U. S. C. § 1983. Petitioner Ray Will filed suit in Michigan ...
94 S. Ct. 2963 (1974) | Cited 12013 times
... MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted the petition for writ of certiorari in this case, 414 U.S. 1156 (1974), because it raises important questions concerning the administration of a state prison. Respondent, on behalf of himself and other inmates of the Nebraska Penal ...
86 S. Ct. 1130 (1966) | Cited 11578 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent Paul Gibbs was awarded compensatory and punitive damages in this action against petitioner United Mine Workers of America (UMW) for alleged violations of § 303 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, 61 Stat. 158, as amended, ...
127 S.Ct. 910 (2007) | Cited 11361 times
... 549 U. S. ____ (2007) In an effort to address the large number of prisoner complaints filed in federal court, Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA), 110 Stat. 1321-71, as amended, 42 U. S. C. §1997e et seq. Among other reforms, the PLRA mandates early judicial screening ...
103 S. Ct. 1933 (1983) | Cited 11212 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Title 42 U. S. C. § 1988 provides that in federal civil rights actions "the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs." The issue in this case is ...
103 S. Ct. 2317 (1983) | Cited 10999 times
... JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondents Lance and Susan Gates were indicated for violation of state drug laws after police officers, executing a search warrant, discovered marihuana and other contraband in their automobile and home. Prior to trial the Gateses moved to ...
107 S. Ct. 2287 (1987) | Cited 10847 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. The question in this case is whether the Secretary of Health and Human Services may deny a claim for Social Security disability benefits on the basis of a determination that the claimant does not suffer from a medically severe impairment that ...
106 S. Ct. 366 (1985) | Cited 10797 times
... JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner William Lloyd Hill pleaded guilty in the Arkansas trial court to charges of first-degree murder and theft of property. More than two years later he sought federal habeas relief on the ground that his court-appointed attorney had ...
105 S. Ct. 3099 (1985) | Cited 10508 times
... JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented is whether 42 U. S. C. § 1988 allows attorney's fees to be recovered from a governmental entity when a plaintiff sues governmental employees only in their personal capacities and prevails. I On November 7, 1979, a ...
124 S.Ct. 2531 (2004) | Cited 10440 times
... 542 U. S. ____ (2004) Petitioner Ralph Howard Blakely, Jr., pleaded guilty to the kidnaping of his estranged wife. The facts admitted in his plea, standing alone, supported a maximum sentence of 53 months. Pursuant to state law, the court imposed an "exceptional" sentence of 90 months after making ...
533 U.S. 194 (2001) | Cited 10348 times
... 533 U. S. ____ (2001) On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit In this case a citizen alleged excessive force was used to arrest him. The arresting officer asserted the defense of qualified immunity. The matter we address is whether the requisite analysis ...
104 S. Ct. 2778 (1984) | Cited 10347 times
... JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. In the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977, Pub. L. 95-95, 91 Stat. 685, Congress enacted certain requirements applicable to States that had not achieved the national air quality standards established by the Environmental Protection Agency ...
82 S. Ct. 1386 (1962) | Cited 10216 times
... MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner challenges, from the standpoint of both power and discretion, the District Court's sua sponte dismissal of this diversity negligence action under circumstances that follow. The action, growing out of a collision between ...
92 S. Ct. 2701 (1972) | Cited 9916 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1968 the respondent, David Roth, was hired for his first teaching job as assistant professor of political science at Wisconsin State University-Oshkosh. He was hired for a fixed term of one academic year. The notice of his faculty ...
93 S. Ct. 1827 (1973) | Cited 9879 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. The respondents in this case were state prisoners who were deprived of good-conduct-time credits by the New York State Department of Correctional Services as a result of disciplinary proceedings. They then brought actions in a federal ...
99 S. Ct. 1861 (1979) | Cited 9796 times
... MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. Over the past five Terms, this Court has in several decisions considered constitutional challenges to prison conditions or practices by convicted prisoners. 1 This case requires us to examine the constitutional rights of pretrial detainees ...
106 S. Ct. 2639 (1986) | Cited 9589 times
... JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari in this case to consider whether a federal habeas petitioner can show cause for a procedural default by establishing that competent defense counsel inadvertently failed to raise the substantive claim of error rather ...
107 S. Ct. 3034 (1987) | Cited 9585 times
... JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented is whether a federal law enforcement officer who participates in a search that violates the Fourth Amendment may be held personally liable for money damages if a reasonable officer could have believed that the search ...
122 S.Ct. 992 (2002) | Cited 9471 times
... 534 U. S. ____ (2002) On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Second Circuit This case presents the question whether a complaint in an employment discrimination lawsuit must contain specific facts establishing a prima facie case of discrimination under the framework ...
105 S. Ct. 2174 (1985) | Cited 9426 times
... JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. The State of Florida's long-arm statute extends jurisdiction to "[any] person, whether or not a citizen or resident of this state," who, inter alia, "[breaches] a contract in this state by failing to perform acts required by the contract to be ...
82 S. Ct. 917 (1962) | Cited 9392 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. Tried and convicted in a Federal District Court for an offense against the United States, petitioner applied for leave to appeal his conviction to the Court of Appeals in forma pauperis. His application was denied. The case presents this ...
91 S. Ct. 746 (1971) | Cited 9346 times
... MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellee, John Harris, Jr., was indicted in a California state court, charged with violation of the California Penal Code §§ 11400 and 11401, known as the California Criminal Syndicalism Act, set out below. 1 He then filed a complaint in ...
512 U.S. 477 (1994) | Cited 9319 times
... JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether a state prisoner may challenge the constitutionality of his conviction in a suit for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. I Petitioner Roy Heck was convicted in Indiana state court of voluntary manslaughter for ...
127 S.Ct. 1769 (2007) | Cited 9223 times
... 550 U. S. ____ (2007) We consider whether a law enforcement official can, consistent with the Fourth Amendment, attempt to stop a fleeing motorist from continuing his public-endangering flight by ramming the motorist's car from behind. Put another way: Can an officer take actions that place a ...
59 S. Ct. 206 (1938) | Cited 9201 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court. The United Electrical and Radio Workers of America, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization, filed a charge, on May 5, 1937, with the National Labor Relations Board that the Consolidated Edison Company of New York and ...
526 U.S. 838 (1999) | Cited 9054 times
... Opinion of the Court O'SULLIVAN v. BOERCKEL ____ U. S. ____ (1999) On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Seventh Circuit Federal habeas relief is available to state prisoners only after they have exhausted their claims in state court. 28 U. S. C. §§2254(b)(1), (c) ...
109 S. Ct. 1197 (1989) | Cited 8914 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case, we are asked to determine if a municipality can ever be liable under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 1 for constitutional violations resulting from its failure to train municipal employees. We hold that, under certain circumstances, such ...
96 S. Ct. 893 (1976) | Cited 8896 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this case is whether the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires that prior to the termination of Social Security disability benefit payments the recipient be afforded an opportunity for an evidentiary hearing. I Cash ...
126 S.Ct. 2378 (2006) | Cited 8843 times
... 548 U. S. ____ (2006) This case presents the question whether a prisoner can satisfy the Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement, 42 U. S. C. §1997e(a), by filing an untimely or otherwise procedurally defective administrative grievance or appeal. We hold that proper exhaustion of ...
111 S. Ct. 2321 (1991) | Cited 8363 times
... JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the questions whether a prisoner claiming that conditions of confinement constitute cruel and unusual punishment must show a culpable state of mind on the part of prison officials and, if so, what state of mind is required. ...
106 S. Ct. 2932 (1986) | Cited 8289 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case, we consider the claims of school officials and schoolchildren in 23 northern Mississippi counties that they are being unlawfully denied the economic benefits of public school lands granted by the United States to the State of ...
108 S. Ct. 2379 (1988) | Cited 8218 times
... JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. Pro se prisoners can file notices of appeal to the federal courts of appeals only by delivering them to prison authorities for forwarding to the appropriate district court. The question we decide in this case is whether under Federal Rule of ...
89 S. Ct. 1709 (1969) | Cited 8209 times
... MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. In the spring of 1966, within the period of a fortnight, a series of armed robberies occurred in Mobile, Alabama. The victims, in each case, were local shopkeepers open at night who were forced by a gunman to hand over money. While robbing ...
104 S. Ct. 2229 (1984) | Cited 8148 times
... CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari to determine whether the District Court properly dismissed a Title VII complaint alleging that a law partnership discriminated against petitioner, a woman lawyer employed as an associate, when it failed to invite her to ...
106 S. Ct. 1712 (1986) | Cited 7974 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to re-examine that portion of Swain v. Alabama, 380 U.S. 202 (1965), concerning the evidentiary burden placed on a criminal defendant who claims that he has been denied equal protection through the State's use of peremptory ...
102 S. Ct. 1584 (1982) | Cited 7853 times
... JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. Rule 52(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure permits a criminal conviction to be overturned on direct appeal for "plain error" in the jury instructions, even if the defendant failed to object to the erroneous instructions before ...
83 S. Ct. 407 (1963) | Cited 7819 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. The petitioners were tried without a jury in the District Court for the Northern District of California under a two-count indictment for violation of the Federal Narcotics Laws, 21 U. S. C. § 174. 1 They were acquitted under the first ...
128 S.Ct. 586 (2007) | Cited 7814 times
... 552 U. S. ____ (2007) In two cases argued on the same day last Term we considered the standard that courts of appeals should apply when reviewing the reasonableness of sentences imposed by district judges. The first, Rita v. United States, 551 U. S. ___ (2007), involved a sentence within the range ...
93 S. Ct. 2041 (1973) | Cited 7809 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. It is well settled under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments that a search conducted without a warrant issued upon probable cause is " per se unreasonable . . . subject only to a few specifically established and well-delineated exceptions." ...
507 U.S. 725 (1993) | Cited 7787 times
... JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. The question in this case is whether the presence of alternate jurors during jury deliberations was a "plain error" that the Court of Appeals was authorized to correct under Rule 52(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. I Each of the ...
104 S. Ct. 900 (1984) | Cited 7760 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether a federal court may award injunctive relief against state officials on the basis of state law. I This litigation, here for the second time, concerns the conditions of care at petitioner Pennhurst ...
101 S. Ct. 2392 (1981) | Cited 7626 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented is whether the housing of two inmates in a single cell at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility is cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. I Respondents Kelly Chapman and Richard ...
523 U.S. 614 (1998) | Cited 7572 times
... Opinion of the Court BOUSLEY v. UNITED STATES ____ U. S. ____ (1998) NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, ...
96 S. Ct. 598 (1976) | Cited 7561 times
... MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. The District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, after parallel trials of separate actions 1 filed in 1970, entered an order in 1973 requiring petitioners "to submit to [the District] Court for its approval a ...
122 S.Ct. 983 (2002) | Cited 7528 times
... On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Second Circuit This case concerns the obligation of prisoners who claim denial of their federal rights while incarcerated to exhaust prison grievance procedures before seeking judicial relief. Plaintiff-respondent Ronald Nussle, ...
88 S. Ct. 507 (1967) | Cited 7424 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. The petitioner was convicted in the District Court for the Southern District of California under an eight-count indictment charging him with transmitting wagering information by telephone from Los Angeles to Miami and Boston, in violation of ...
62 S. Ct. 457 (1942) | Cited 7397 times
... MR. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners, together with Anthony Horton and Louis Kaplan, were found guilty upon an indictment charging them with a conspiracy to defraud the United States, under § 37 of the Criminal Code (R. S. § 5440; 18 U. S. C. § 88). 1 Judgment was ...
523 U.S. 224 (1998) | Cited 7371 times
... Title 8 U. S. C. Section 1326(a) makes it a crime for a deported alien to return to the United States without special permission and authorizes a maximum prison term of two years. In 1988, Congress added subsection (b)(2), which authorizes a maximum prison term of 20 years for "any alien described" ...
510 U.S. 266 (1994) | Cited 7319 times
... CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which JUSTICE O'CONNOR, JUSTICE SCALIA, and JUSTICE GINSBURG joined. A warrant was issued for petitioner's arrest by Illinois authorities, and upon learning of it he surrendered and was released on bail. The ...
106 S. Ct. 662 (1986) | Cited 7300 times
... JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. In Parratt v. Taylor, 451 U.S. 527 (1981), a state prisoner sued under 42 U. S. C. § 1983, claiming that prison officials had negligently deprived him of his property without due process of law. After deciding that § 1983 contains no ...
104 S. Ct. 3194 (1984) | Cited 7299 times
... CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari in No. 82-1630 to decide whether a prison inmate has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his prison cell entitling him to the protection of the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures. We also ...
109 S. Ct. 1814 (1989) | Cited 7281 times
... JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. We are called upon to decide whether 28 U. S. C. § 1915(d) authorizes a federal court to require an unwilling attorney to represent an indigent litigant in a civil case. We hold that it does not. I Section 1915(d) provides: "The court may ...
103 S. Ct. 3383 (1983) | Cited 7254 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. We have two questions before us in this case: whether the District Court erred on the merits in rejecting the petition for habeas corpus filed by petitioner, and whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly denied a stay of ...
102 S. Ct. 1198 (1982) | Cited 7108 times
... JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court, except as to Part III-C. In this case we consider whether the exhaustion rule in 28 U. S. C. §§ 2254(b), (c) requires a federal district court to dismiss a petition for a writ of habeas corpus containing any claims that have not been exhausted ...
82 S. Ct. 993 (1962) | Cited 7035 times
... This is a civil antitrust suit by the Government challenging Diebold's acquisition of the assets of the Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company as being violative of § 7 of the Clayton Act. On motion of Diebold the District Court entered summary judgment against the Government on the ground that the ...
90 S. Ct. 1068 (1970) | Cited 7006 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. Constitutional questions decided by this Court concerning the juvenile process have centered on the adjudicatory stage at "which a determination is made as to whether a juvenile is a 'delinquent' as a result of alleged misconduct on his ...
105 S. Ct. 1504 (1985) | Cited 6992 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. In Pullman-Standard v. Swint, 456 U.S. 273 (1982), we held that a District Court's finding of discriminatory intent in an action brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e et seq., is a ...
68 S. Ct. 525 (1948) | Cited 6988 times
... MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court. The United States instituted this suit on August 15, 1940, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia against United States Gypsum Company, five other corporate defendants, and seven individual defendants, as a ...
103 S. Ct. 927 (1983) | Cited 6921 times
... JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case, commenced as a petition for an order to compel arbitration under § 4 of the United States Arbitration Act of 1925 (Arbitration Act or Act), 9 U. S. C. § 4, presents the question whether, in light of the policies of the Act and of our ...
95 S. Ct. 2197 (1975) | Cited 6877 times
... # T MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners, various organizations and individuals resident in the Rochester, N. Y., metropolitan area, brought this action in the District Court for the Western District of New York against the town of Penfield, an incorporated ...
101 S. Ct. 1908 (1981) | Cited 6728 times
... JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. The respondent is an inmate at the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex who ordered by mail certain hobby materials valued at $23.50. The hobby materials were lost and respondent brought suit under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 to recover their value. ...
92 S. Ct. 2182 (1972) | Cited 6698 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Although a speedy trial is guaranteed the accused by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, 1 this Court has dealt with that right on infrequent occasions. See Beavers v. Haubert, 198 U.S. 77 (1905); Pollard v. United States, 352 U.S. 354 ...
95 S. Ct. 2525 (1975) | Cited 6659 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of our Constitution guarantee that a person brought to trial in any state or federal court must be afforded the right to the assistance of counsel before he can be validly convicted and punished by ...