Term recap
October Term 1939 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1939, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
141
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
24
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down November 6, 1939 and the last on June 3, 1940. The busiest single day was January 29, 1940 with 15 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
November 1939 · 12 decisions
- Massachusetts v. Missouri
- Pittman v. Home Owners' Loan Corp.
- Boteler v. Ingels
- F. H. E. Oil Co. v. Helvering
- United States v. Glenn L. Martin Co.
- Rasquin v. Humphreys
- Palmer v. Massachusetts
- Standard Brands, Inc. v. National Grain Yeast Corp.
- Valvoline Oil Co. v. United States
- Ziffrin, Inc. v. Reeves
- Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.
- Schneider v. State (Town of Irvington)
December 1939 · 20 decisions
- National Labor Relations Board v. Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.
- Case v. Los Angeles Lumber Products Co.
- Cities Service Oil Co. v. Dunlap
- Bruno v. United States
- Danforth v. United States
- John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Bartels
- Estate of Sanford v. Commissioner
- United States v. Lowden
- Pepper v. Litton
- United States v. Borden Co.
- Union Stock Yard & Transit Co. v. United States
- Helvering v. F. & R. Lazarus & Co.
- Pearson v. McGraw
- United States v. Sponenbarger
- Helvering v. Wilshire Oil Co.
- Nardone v. United States
- Weiss v. United States
- Board of Comm'rs of Jackson Cty. v. United States
- Buckstaff Bath House Co. v. McKinley
- Griffiths v. Commissioner
January 1940 · 30 decisions
- Kalb v. Feuerstein
- Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank
- Avery v. Alabama
- Bonet v. Texas Co. (PR)
- National Labor Relations Board v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- National Labor Relations Board v. Falk Corp.
- American Federation of Labor v. National Labor Relations Board
- Postal SS Corp. v. El Isleo
- Higgins v. Smith
- Deputy, Administratrix v. Du Pont
- Ford Motor Co. v. Beauchamp
- Real Estate - Land Title & Trust Co. v. United States
- Miller v. Hatfield
- McGoldrick v. Gulf Oil Corp.
- Helis v. Ward
- Fly v. Heitmeyer
- General American Tank Car Corp. v. El Dorado Terminal Co.
- Yearsley v. W. A. Ross Construction Co.
- Oklahoma Packing Co. v. Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co.
- Morgan v. Commissioner
- Helvering v. Fitch
- James Stewart & Co. v. Sadrakula
- Bell Telephone Co. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
- Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co.
- Treinies v. Sunshine Mining Co.
- McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co.
- LeTulle v. Scofield
- Madden v. Kentucky Ex Rel. Commissioner
- Helvering v. Hallock
- McGoldrick v. Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co.
February 1940 · 14 decisions
- United States Ex Rel. Midland Loan Finance Co. v. National Surety Corp.
- Chambers v. Florida
- Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr
- Llinois Central Railroad v. Minnesota
- Carpenter v. Wabash Railway Co.
- South Chicago Coal & Dock Co. v. Bassett
- Mayo v. Lakeland Highlands Canning Co.
- Amalgamated Utility Workers v. Consolidated Edison Co.
- Helvering v. Clifford
- Helvering v. Wood
- Minnesota Ex Rel. Pearson v. Probate Court of Ramsey County
- Helvering v. Kehoe
- Germantown Trust Co. v. Commissioner
- Cobbledick v. United States
March 1940 · 20 decisions
- National Licorice Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
- McCarroll v. Dixie Greyhound Lines, Inc.
- National Labor Relations Board v. Waterman Steamship Corp.
- Deitrick v. Greaney
- Paramino Lumber Co. v. Marshall
- Fischer v. Pauline Oil & Gas Co.
- McGoldrick v. Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
- McGoldrick v. Gulf Oil Corp.
- Helvering v. Bruun
- Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.
- Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp.
- Federal Communications Commission v. Sanders Bros. Radio Station
- Minnesota v. National Tea Co.
- Ethyl Gasoline Corp. v. United States
- Whitney v. State Tax Comm'n of NY
- Helvering v. Price
- United States v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
- United States v. Shaw
- Puerto Rico v. Rubert Hermanos, Inc.
- Tradesmens National Bank of Oklahoma City v. Oklahoma Tax Commission
April 1940 · 17 decisions
- Dickinson Industrial Site, Inc. v. Cowan
- Yonkers v. Downey
- Inland Waterways Corp. v. Young
- Haggar Co. v. Helvering, Com'r of Internal Revenue
- Maurer v. Hamilton
- Helvering v. Leonard
- Helvering v. Fuller
- Woodring v. Wardell
- Thornhill v. Alabama
- Veix v. Sixth Ward Building & Loan Assn. of Newark
- Osborn v. Ozlin
- Kersh Lake Drainage District v. Johnson
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Nester
- Colorado National Bank of Denver v. Bedford
- Wisconsin v. Illinois
- Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co.
- Warren v. Palmer
May 1940 · 21 decisions
- Ex Parte Bransford
- Wyoming v. Colorado
- Union Joint Stock Land Bank of Detroit v. Byerly
- United States v. City & County of San Francisco
- National Labor Relations Board v. Bradford Dyeing Ass'n
- United States v. George S. Bush & Co.
- Cantwell v. Connecticut
- Dampskibsselskabet Dannebrog v. Signal Oil & Gas Co. of Cal.
- Carlson v. California
- Sontag Chain Stores Co. v. National Nut Co. of Cal.
- United States v. Chicago Heights Trucking Co.
- Borchard v. California Bank
- Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. Browning
- Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins
- Anderson v. Helvering
- Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission v. Colburn
- Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader
- United States v. American Trucking Associations
- United States v. Summerlin
- Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co.
- White v. Texas
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